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View Poll Results: Format: How important is knowing the format before purchase | |||
not important, don't care | 7 | 4.07% | |
good to know, but not necessary | 15 | 8.72% | |
absolutely important, want to know | 150 | 87.21% | |
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09-22-2013, 03:14 PM | #106 |
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09-22-2013, 10:05 PM | #107 |
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If you update your new Aura using the Kobo Desktop application, it's easy to capture the download URL for the firmware file or to grab the file itself during the download. Trying to use this firmware file on an Aura HD didn't work all that well. I'm somewhat tempted to try using just the KoboRoot.tgz leaving out the manifest file and the upgrades directory as several beta testers have mentioned that is how Kobo delivers the beta firmware but will save that till I have finished a couple of new books and will have more time to play. As it is, my reading stats claimed 126 books read in 171 hours -- somewhat of a record for me without having done a factory reset. Now I'm back to 4 books and 6 hours.
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09-24-2013, 11:21 PM | #108 | |
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Also, today for the first time I saw the new page which lacks the info. But that appeared as store.kobobooks.com, if I typed in the www.kobobooks.com I could get the old page. Does this work for anyone? I have to say, I prefer the old page. Not exactly because it provides the format info (though that is good) but because when doing a search it shows me pertinent info without having to click on a book (the new one shows me a cover thumbnail plus price vs. cover thumbnail+price+publisher+author+genre on the old site). Which makes me hope they don't truly bury or do away with the old site completely (kind of like how yahoo used to let you use the "classic" mail website). |
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09-25-2013, 12:02 AM | #109 |
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I just tried the link (from Aus) and it takes me to the new site, but Firefox is my default browser.
I have to use IE9 to get to the old site. |
09-29-2013, 02:08 PM | #110 |
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Good news on the format front. I got the new design for the first time today, and promptly proceeded to enquire about the format of a book I was interested in. The guy in the help chat assured me that the format would soon be displayed again - in the place where they have the useless "read this on" info now. Keeping fingers crossed...
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09-29-2013, 11:02 PM | #111 |
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Well that is encouraging news
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10-01-2013, 08:04 PM | #112 |
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I cannot believe that Kobo thinks there isn't a substantive difference for readers between Epub, Kepub or PDF and between DRM and non-DRM.
It has occurred to me that Amazon is dominating ebooks not because it is so good at ebook retailing but because all of their competitors are so terribly, terribly bad at it. (Except for Smashwords...I them.) Somebody mentioned that Smashwords doesn't list DRM status -- that is because Smashwords doesn't use DRM, everything is DRM free. |
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