12-05-2014, 06:55 AM | #16 | ||
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@davidfor. Thanks for this list. IMO, it gives a good impression what to expect. I think I'll pass on this update.
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But were ratings of sideloaded books taken into account anyway? I have no I idea. Kobo should (try to) match sideloaded books with their book database (based on the book metadata). And if a book can't be matched that way, then ask/give the user the opportunity to match it manually. And use this info to improve recommendations, similar to books your are reading, etc. This should be benificial to increase sales. It is impossible to add books that I like to my wishlist. I can only add Kobo's recommendations, etc. to the wishlist. And not my own choices. I might be wrong here, I think I know my taste better then Kobo does. At least for now and this might change if Kobo can really improve this feature. Then they might predict with great accuracy what I like to read. |
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Now when I log on to that account, all the books are Harlequin romance books No matter what I buy, the recommendations stays all on nurce and doctor romance In general, not to reply to u, we are always having troubles here in the Netherlands buying books of other origine then epub,it was not possible to buy Kindle readers from Amazon official (since a couple of weeks they have opened a store here so now it is), so the AZW format is almost unknown. All the webshops are selling only epub,and with the very aggressive selling of the discontinued Sony readers the KEPUB format isn't known well either. I buyed one book of KOBO once,because it was a Stephen King book and the Kobostore has made a mistake,they put it online 3 weeks before the official releasedate. Since Sony stopped, the biggest online book seller BOL.com needs an replacement, so they started selling KOBO readers, but only because they are able to read EPUB, Bol doesn't change into Kepub. When I logon with my account to Kobo by internet, all my previous buyed epubs at Bol.com are available for download in the Kobostore, but only as epub and only online,not on my reader. So about 200 epubs are now added to the Kobo account,but I can only sync that one Stephen King book. I can only rate that only Stephen King book So the whole added function does nothing to me and for the majority of The Netherlands. I have a discount of 15% on all epubs, so there will never be a second kepub on my device,maybe some converted ones. There was a survey lately and less then 1% knew that Kobo sells ebooks, and from that 1% only 2% ever bought a book at Kobo. (maybe it was me ) About 90% of the sold readers are Sony (they even had a special version for the Netherlands with only one dictionary on it, no rights so cheap.) that isn't capable of displaying Kepubs, so the format will never be popular here. People buy epub,because they can read it on both Kobo and Sony, so if Kobo doesn't allow the rating of sideloaded epubs almost no one will ever rate them. The ratings on BOL.com are not transported to kobo's account,so the function is useless here. So Kobo has to change the concept of only sync buyed kepubs from the store into also buyed epubs at the merged BOL.com account,or the rating system will never work here. Last edited by Nick_1964; 12-05-2014 at 09:22 AM. |
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12-05-2014, 11:28 AM | #20 |
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12-05-2014, 03:40 PM | #22 |
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Well I've quickly retested some of the known issues I track (which Davidfor has not mentioned). And they remain more or less unchanged:
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Image rendering in ACCESS (<img> tag handling) is broken as it was in 3.11. (I don't know when this issue started but I'm nearly sure that it worked perfectly fine in older FWs). Link to post with pictures in the FW 3.11 thread. WebBrowser continues as "broken" as it was in FW 3.11 The three issues I posted here seems to be fully unchanged. And, of course, all the old traditional known issues remain unchanged. Last edited by arspr; 12-05-2014 at 03:44 PM. |
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12-05-2014, 07:58 PM | #24 |
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There's something seriously wrong with the new Desktop.
It's giving me Japanese books in the 'Similar to books you're reading' section. Needless to say, I've never looked at Japanese books on this Kobo account. |
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12-05-2014, 08:33 PM | #28 | |
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When you select Redeem you can enter a Google Gift Card. Unfortunately, it would seem that Gift Cards are not available in the Netherlands (See https://support.google.com/googlepla..._topic=3421698 ) |
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12-05-2014, 08:36 PM | #29 |
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