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rischa · 06-04-2010, 07:13 PM

OK so I just picked up my Kobo from Borders last night. After reading this forum constantly while I've been waiting for it to come in, I feel pretty well informed. I decided to still get the Kobo because I only want to read books, I don't require any other features... and mainly because I had a $100 Borders gift voucher someone had given me and I figured I may as well give it a go.

Here's a question for any other Aussie Kobo owners out there: am I missing something, or does the Borders software really really suck? I couldn't see anything in there about actually managing the books on my device. There doesn't seem to be an I'm Reading list like I've heard there is in the Kobo Desktop Application, so I have no way to remove books from the I'm Reading list on my device except for the slow boring method of clicking all the way to the end of the book! Crazy!

I've decided to ignore the Borders software and I've been putting books on with Calibre, that seems great. But I'm just a bit concerned for when the firmware update comes out, because I didn't see any function in the Borders app for checking for updates or anything.

06-04-2010, 07:13 PM	#1
rischa Member Posts: 23 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2010 Device: Kobo	Borders "software" OK so I just picked up my Kobo from Borders last night. After reading this forum constantly while I've been waiting for it to come in, I feel pretty well informed. I decided to still get the Kobo because I only want to read books, I don't require any other features... and mainly because I had a $100 Borders gift voucher someone had given me and I figured I may as well give it a go. Here's a question for any other Aussie Kobo owners out there: am I missing something, or does the Borders software really really suck? I couldn't see anything in there about actually managing the books on my device. There doesn't seem to be an I'm Reading list like I've heard there is in the Kobo Desktop Application, so I have no way to remove books from the I'm Reading list on my device except for the slow boring method of clicking all the way to the end of the book! Crazy! I've decided to ignore the Borders software and I've been putting books on with Calibre, that seems great. But I'm just a bit concerned for when the firmware update comes out, because I didn't see any function in the Borders app for checking for updates or anything.