03-15-2021, 06:28 PM | #1 |
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The Next Exclusive Feature
When the Aura One was released, Kobo introduced integrated OverDrive support. This was a killer feature for me and won me over from upgrading my old Kindle at the time. When the Forma was released, Kobo introduced Dropbox support. I didn’t buy a Forma (I was still in love with my Aura One LE), but I’ve coveted that Dropbox support for two years now. What killer feature would you like to see in Kobo’s next flagship model?
Maybe you’ve heard something, or maybe you’ve got a killer feature you’re dying to see implemented—think KINDLE KILLER. Personally, I’d like to see (in order of importance), but I’m not sure they’re all Kindle killers: 3. Cloud backup even for side-loaded books 2. Family sharing 1. Color eInk Kindle offers cloud backup of side-loaded books through their clunky documents feature. It works, but often book covers aren’t used. Other ereaders offer color eInk now, but Kobo could put a dent in Kindle’s caché if it beat Amazon to market with a color model. Current Kindles are getting long in the tooth. Family sharing could be said to have already been done on the Nook, but those were very restricted, one-time, time limited shares. I’d like for my daughter, who has her own account and Kobo, to be able to access and download from her Mother’s home any book I purchase for myself without need of DRM stripping and side-loading. What are your ideas? Like Kobo AR goggles with no need to hold an ereader anymore and all page turning done by eye glances? Or something more realistic? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro Last edited by Cootey; 03-15-2021 at 06:40 PM. |
03-15-2021, 06:44 PM | #2 | |
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I would be absolutely amazed if they put U-Boot in some new SPI flash device that'd be (mostly) untouchable and read-only, and if on top of that they put an initrd that could be used for recovery purposes. With that, an eMMC device could be bricked and it would be as easy to unbrick it, like the ones with internal microSDs. Any others sharing my point of view? |
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03-15-2021, 07:06 PM | #3 |
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The ability to zoom images in epubs. Also I wish that searching in epubs would be MUCH faster (it's painfully slow and fails altogether with some very long books).
To improve the typography/layout in kepubs. Global search (the ability to search across your whole library, like you can on Kindles). Color would be cool, but almost everything I read is text-based, so it's not really necessary. I already use Dropbox for backing up my stuff and don't need the cloud support on my ereaders. |
03-15-2021, 07:13 PM | #4 |
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As I'm shunning the cloud wherever possible, OTG would be great, letting my USB sticks be my own unmonetised Dropbox/GoogleDrive. And that way, if my data gets burnt to a crisp OVH style, I'll have bigger problems to worry about than the fact that my cloud provider did not have its own offsite backup.
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03-15-2021, 07:31 PM | #5 | |
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Of course it would be stupid to rely solely on any cloud. I do keep my backups on external drives as well. But I'm not lugging those drives around with me, so Dropbox is my main offsite backup. |
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03-15-2021, 07:32 PM | #6 |
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1. Cloud backup by your own selected cloud backup service.
2. Easy access/offload for annotations in some type of document file. |
03-15-2021, 07:46 PM | #7 |
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That's why I have several, and nice compact external SSDs too, any/all of which it would be great to be able to plug into my Kobo in the event that the 600 or so books I carry on it all fail to excite me.
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03-15-2021, 07:48 PM | #8 | |
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03-15-2021, 07:57 PM | #9 | |
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I like those. I like the convenience of cloud backups, but I also like the option for a hard copy on a drive somewhere. I’d love to see more robust annotation management as well. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro |
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03-15-2021, 07:59 PM | #10 | |
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03-15-2021, 10:51 PM | #11 | |
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Sorry Jon, but frequently your statements come off as absurd. Or at least a non sequitur. And the reason that Kobo has Kepub is because they have control of the DRM in it. They cannot do things via the RMSDK that they can directly. And, for every person you could introduce me to that thinks the typography in kepubs is worse than using the RMSDK, I can probably show you 100 that would just go, "What?" |
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03-16-2021, 12:12 AM | #13 |
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03-16-2021, 01:07 AM | #14 |
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I'd like to see in Beta features:
Get KOreader Then the user will connect the ereader to the pc and KOreader is automatically downloaded and installed Last edited by Owl_; 03-16-2021 at 01:09 AM. |
03-16-2021, 01:31 AM | #15 |
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Yeah, I doubt that is likely to happen. Kinda like opening a McDonalds app on your phone and being offered the option to buy KFC instead. From Kobo's perspective, KOReader is competition, of sorts. As a happy Kobo owner/KOReader user, I'm content that Kobo still makes it possible to install alternatives, rather than locking it down completely.
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