Will Kobo ever get collections/shelves??

MrsJoseph · 07-25-2011, 11:34 AM

My husband broke my Kobo Wi-Fi this weekend.

But now I get to buy a new book reader!

I thought - at first - that I'd just get a new Kobo Touch...but then I realized that Kobo still doesn't offer shelves or collections! That really makes me take a more serious look at the Nook STR.

I'd really like to stay with Kobo as it has been working perfectly fine for me but as a genre reader who reads mostly multi-series books not having collections is a serious PIA.

How likely is it that Kobo will push a software update that will include collections in the future? Any educated guesses?

dmacmart · 07-25-2011, 11:47 AM

There has been much discussion but no promises. However the iDevice Kobo app does support shelves; in the past most (all?) of the iOS features have been pushed to the Kobo reader software.

Nina182B · 07-25-2011, 12:23 PM

Beginning of July, I bought the Nook touch and Kobo touch. On the Nook touch, adding collections was a pain because you can only do it from the device. (I don't know if there was a firmware release afterwards to make adding collections for the Nook easier.) If you don't have a lot of books, this might not be a problem for you. I had about 300 books and there was no way I was going to do my collections on the device itself. You had to scroll through the whole list of books, and select which book goes in the collection. Then go through the whole list of books again for each collection!

With the Kobo Touch, there is the shortlist, which I really liked - I just added the books I want to read to that list. And then the search functionality for the Kobo Touch was nice. If I typed the first letters of an author or title, Kobo Touch is already filtering the list for me. I decided I didn't really need collections after all. Nice to have for me, but not a deal breaker.

In the end, I returned my Nook and kept the Kobo Touch.

MrsJoseph · 07-25-2011, 12:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nina182B

Beginning of July, I bought the Nook touch and Kobo touch. On the Nook touch, adding collections was a pain because you can only do it from the device. (I don't know if there was a firmware release afterwards to make adding collections for the Nook easier.) If you don't have a lot of books, this might not be a problem for you. I had about 300 books and there was no way I was going to do my collections on the device itself. You had to scroll through the whole list of books, and select which book goes in the collection. Then go through the whole list of books again for each collection!

With the Kobo Touch, there is the shortlist, which I really liked - I just added the books I want to read to that list. And then the search functionality for the Kobo Touch was nice. If I typed the first letters of an author or title, Kobo Touch is already filtering the list for me. I decided I didn't really need collections after all. Nice to have for me, but not a deal breaker.

In the end, I returned my Nook and kept the Kobo Touch.

Now that is something to think about, thanks! I do have too many books to do them one at a time...

I guess I can continue to use Calibre work arounds but it's a little annoying.

TonyToews · 10-31-2011, 11:17 PM

I too would like to see collections, libraries or shelves. Whatever you want to call them so long as Calibre supports them.

Obviously I'd like to limit my viewing of the list of books to one particular collection, library or shelf.

Nigol · 11-01-2011, 11:30 AM

I read somewhere from a Dev that it indeed in the plans (or at least a better system), once all the feature are available to both ePub & kepub are finished, they should start working on it. Maybe they are keeping 2.0 for this?

jadacks · 11-01-2011, 01:50 PM

I really hope they add collections soon, trying to manage my large and growing library of ebooks on the kobo touch is horrible. If not I'll switch to sony, I've heard they have good collections support.

JedV · 11-01-2011, 02:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nigol

I read somewhere from a Dev that it indeed in the plans (or at least a better system), once all the feature are available to both ePub & kepub are finished, they should start working on it. Maybe they are keeping 2.0 for this?

Funny you mention this, I saw on the new Chapters' Kobo Touch website that there is an image of an alternate Library interface. Is this doctored from the previous models of Kobo?

SCION · 11-01-2011, 02:08 PM

Interesting. You can use the alphabet to jump to books. Similar to Sony. This feature was mentioned in the wish list thread. Perhaps they are implementing it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by JedV

Funny you mention this, I saw on the new Chapters' Kobo Touch website that there is an image of an alternate Library interface. Is this doctored from the previous models of Kobo?

Joe563 · 11-01-2011, 04:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JedV

Funny you mention this, I saw on the new Chapters' Kobo Touch website that there is an image of an alternate Library interface. Is this doctored from the previous models of Kobo?

This view is available on my Kobo Original and, I am assuming, on the Kobo WiFi.

Nigol · 11-01-2011, 10:13 PM

Most likely they Photoshopped the original library on the Touch in time for the launch or pre-launch and haven't updated it.

timlegge · 11-01-2011, 10:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TonyToews

I too would like to see collections, libraries or shelves. Whatever you want to call them so long as Calibre supports them.

That's the plan. As soon as a release shows up with support for collections I will work on integrating it with Calibre.

Tim

TonyToews · 11-01-2011, 11:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by timlegge

That's the plan. As soon as a release shows up with support for collections I will work on integrating it with Calibre.
Tim

Ahh, you're the programmer/developer of the Kobo integration stuff in Calibre, then?

timlegge · 11-01-2011, 11:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TonyToews

Ahh, you're the programmer/developer of the Kobo integration stuff in Calibre, then?

Yes I am

The Terminator · 11-02-2011, 12:27 AM

Wow is that page ever wrong.

Quote:

Battery Life
With a month long battery life, you can continue enjoying your Kobo Touch for up to 200,000 page turns.

This is obviously a typo, someone added an extra Zero.

Quote:

Find your books faster with improved search, highlight passages, bookmark multiple pages, and jump back and forth to any page in your book with full navigation – all by the touch of your finger.

This is not in the current stable firmware.

Quote:

Reading Life
Expand your reading life by sharing your favourite books with friends on Facebook™ and Twitter. Unlock awards through eReading and track your progress with Reading Life stats.

As far as I see you cannot share anything to Twitter.

07-25-2011, 11:34 AM	#1
MrsJoseph Loves Ellipsis... Posts: 1,554 Karma: 7899232 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Washington, DC Device: Kobo Wifi (broken), nook STR (returned), Kobo Touch, Sony T1	Will Kobo ever get collections/shelves?? My husband broke my Kobo Wi-Fi this weekend. But now I get to buy a new book reader! I thought - at first - that I'd just get a new Kobo Touch...but then I realized that Kobo still doesn't offer shelves or collections! That really makes me take a more serious look at the Nook STR. I'd really like to stay with Kobo as it has been working perfectly fine for me but as a genre reader who reads mostly multi-series books not having collections is a serious PIA. How likely is it that Kobo will push a software update that will include collections in the future? Any educated guesses?

07-25-2011, 12:23 PM	#3
Nina182B Connoisseur Posts: 60 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: NJ, USA Device: Kindle, Cybook Opus, Kobo Touch, Kobo Glo, Kobo Aura	Nook Collections is a pain Beginning of July, I bought the Nook touch and Kobo touch. On the Nook touch, adding collections was a pain because you can only do it from the device. (I don't know if there was a firmware release afterwards to make adding collections for the Nook easier.) If you don't have a lot of books, this might not be a problem for you. I had about 300 books and there was no way I was going to do my collections on the device itself. You had to scroll through the whole list of books, and select which book goes in the collection. Then go through the whole list of books again for each collection! With the Kobo Touch, there is the shortlist, which I really liked - I just added the books I want to read to that list. And then the search functionality for the Kobo Touch was nice. If I typed the first letters of an author or title, Kobo Touch is already filtering the list for me. I decided I didn't really need collections after all. Nice to have for me, but not a deal breaker. In the end, I returned my Nook and kept the Kobo Touch.

11-01-2011, 10:13 PM	#11
Nigol Groupie Posts: 185 Karma: 363616 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Montreal, Canada Device: Kobo Original, Kobo Touch	Most likely they Photoshopped the original library on the Touch in time for the launch or pre-launch and haven't updated it. Last edited by Nigol; 11-01-2011 at 10:32 PM.

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07-25-2011, 11:47 AM	#2
dmacmart Fanatic Posts: 534 Karma: 696908 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Ottawa Canada Device: Kobo Mini, Glo, Arc, H2O, iPhone, iPad 2, (husband)Touch	There has been much discussion but no promises. However the iDevice Kobo app does support shelves; in the past most (all?) of the iOS features have been pushed to the Kobo reader software.

10-31-2011, 11:17 PM	#5
TonyToews Evangelist Posts: 490 Karma: 351398 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: Kobo Vox and Glo	I too would like to see collections, libraries or shelves. Whatever you want to call them so long as Calibre supports them. Obviously I'd like to limit my viewing of the list of books to one particular collection, library or shelf.

11-01-2011, 11:30 AM	#6
Nigol Groupie Posts: 185 Karma: 363616 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Montreal, Canada Device: Kobo Original, Kobo Touch	I read somewhere from a Dev that it indeed in the plans (or at least a better system), once all the feature are available to both ePub & kepub are finished, they should start working on it. Maybe they are keeping 2.0 for this?

11-01-2011, 01:50 PM	#7
jadacks Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2011 Device: Kobo, Kindle	I really hope they add collections soon, trying to manage my large and growing library of ebooks on the kobo touch is horrible. If not I'll switch to sony, I've heard they have good collections support.