Touch Poll: what's more important, new features or fix current bugs?

[rashkae]

Originally Posted by ScalyFreak

And that's why there's lots of eReaders. We have different priorities and preferences. I don't mind any of the three you listed, and if I did I can easily take care of two of them by installing PRS+ and booting the custom firmware instead. And install any font I want.

But I can't imagine living without the multiple bookmarks or collections feature, or the ability to switch between sorting by title, author, date added, date read, or file name.

Then you might as well wait for the new Sonys to come out before buying your back-up reader. Looks like it will be a good price point, and should be packed with all the Sony features you know and love

[JSWolf]

What I don't get is why Kobo needs to use an SQL database. Nobody else uses such.

[ScalyFreak]

Originally Posted by Psyke

lol sorry, that didn't mean to come out as aggressive at it seemed, but I think I've been letting peoples feelings of self entitlement get to me on some game boards I read, and it kinda just exploded here

Bah, no worries. This is the internet, only newcomers take things personally.

I actually agree completely with you. Side-effect of that tech support job I mentioned earlier...

[ScalyFreak]

Originally Posted by rashkae

Then you might as well wait for the new Sonys to come out before buying your back-up reader. Looks like it will be a good price point, and should be packed with all the Sony features you know and love

The thought has crossed my mind... I'm watching them very closely.

[Psyke]

Originally Posted by rashkae

B&N uses their own DRM format. But underneath, it's still just simply an epub format book. I have no idea why Kobo felt compelled to create their own proprietary changes to epub and are now stuck have two support two reader code paths. (I'm sure it made sense at the time, but surely there must come a time when it will make more sense to give it up and just go with epub)

and for all intents and purposes, a KEPUB is, now, just an epub. we were even experimenting a few months ago with regular epubs giving them .kepub.epub extensions so we could access the kepub features. Previously (with the original Kobo, and with the wifi for a bit), they had used an SQL database to store the books. since they moved away from that, it has gotten better

[Psyke]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

What I don't get is why Kobo needs to use an SQL database. Nobody else uses such.

I don't believe it's SQL anymore though.

[rashkae]

Originally Posted by Psyke

and for all intents and purposes, a KEPUB is, now, just an epub. we were even experimenting a few months ago with regular epubs giving them .kepub.epub extensions so we could access the kepub features. Previously (with the original Kobo, and with the wifi for a bit), they had used an SQL database to store the books. since they moved away from that, it has gotten better

Yes, I know, I tried that. At best the cover wouldn't work at all when you did that. At worst.. well, I tried with some epub books with multi-level toc, the results were not pretty. (You couldn't actually read the book, the reader would skip to the next top level chapter when you tried turning a page.)
Kepubs are, alas, not just epubs. But they should be.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Psyke

I don't believe it's SQL anymore though.

But it is still an easily corruptible database format isn't it?

Anyway, I'd rather the bugs be fixed and then the new features can be rolled out.

[thp1017]

Originally Posted by rashkae

I own both the prs-650 and the Kobo touch. I've long since switched to the Kobo as my primary reader, despite the .... flaws. As far as some features, such as Bookmarks, annotation and text search, the Sony is miles ahead, no doubt.

I guess a lot of this depends on what you use your eReader for - I'm using it for personal reading only - where I mostly read one book at a time, no endnotes, no annotations, no need for more than one bookmark, etc, so the KT is just what I wanted.

If I were back in school, reading either for a literature class, science books, etc., I can see where this type of ability would be great to have. Hmm, although, at that point, I probably would lean more towards a tablet?

Originally Posted by SCION

Bottom line, the Kobo should not be recommended for folks who will be sideloading content.

Ummmmm, I've got ~500 side-loaded books that would say otherwise A collection of drm-free from Baen, converted from other sources (lit, mobi, etc), and hand-crafted.

Admittedly I did write up some scripts to "clean" the html, but that seemed more because of the poor formatting of some of the copies I've been grabbing (slowly duplicating my brothers paper library on my KT)...

Originally Posted by JSWolf

But it is still an easily corruptible database format isn't it?

Anyway, I'd rather the bugs be fixed and then the new features can be rolled out.

Hum, isn't it SQL, or close to? Been a while since I've done anything more than basic database stuff, but I know I dumped all of the preloaded content using the sqlite plugin in firefox when I first bought the KT.

It'd be interesting to know what, if any benefits there are to having a DB, and how Sony/B&N keep track of thigns...

[chookie2]

I would simply like the Marvin I paid for to work with Calibre...an IOS 8.02 fix is needed urgently.

[DNSB]

What does Marvin and its issues with iOS 8.0.2 have to do with a Kobo bug fix vs. new features discussion? Perhaps a complaint at MarvinApp.com would be a better starting point.

Have you checked the Calibre plugins forum for issues with Marvin? See Marvin XD

[Josieb1]

I'd like kobo to fix their quality control issues and actually allow me to be able to buy an ereader that isn't faulty and works okay.