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Old 05-28-2011, 08:53 AM   #1
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French language in Kobo menus--Is it possible?
Our local school received four Kobos. However the Kobo menus are in English and the school is French. Is there anyway to change the menus to be in French?
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Old 05-28-2011, 11:50 AM   #2
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Our local school received four Kobos. However the Kobo menus are in English and the school is French. Is there anyway to change the menus to be in French?
the new touch version will support French. Hopefully a firmware upgrade will add this capability to earlier units. I suggest you contact Kobo directly.

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Old 05-28-2011, 03:23 PM   #3
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Isn't Kobo a Canadian company? Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that Canada was a bilingual country, with both French and English spoken. I'm extremely surprised that any Canadian product would not support the language of its own country!
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Isn't Kobo a Canadian company? Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that Canada was a bilingual country, with both French and English spoken. I'm extremely surprised that any Canadian product would not support the language of its own country!
It's a little confusing. English and French are the official languages of Canada at the federal level, and the government has to provide services in both languages, but the reality is that many (most?) Canadians do not speak both.

At the provincial level, French is the sole official language of the provincial government of Quebec, so they only have to provide services in French. Ontario, New Brunswick and Manitoba must provide services in both English and French. The rest of Canada (the remaining six provinces) is strictly English. Keep in mind, though, that we're talking about offering government services. And in these provinces packaging is in the official languages. Here in Ontario, everything has both English and French on its packages.

The reality for Canadians in their day-to-day lives, however, is different. I took French up until university, but I'm not bilingual because I know *no one* who speaks French, so I never had anyone with whom I could practice my oral French.
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Isn't Kobo a Canadian company? Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that Canada was a bilingual country, with both French and English spoken. I'm extremely surprised that any Canadian product would not support the language of its own country!
That's what I thought. I thought it was illegal to sell non-French products in QC. Maybe e-readers are a loophole. Odd for a product pushed in French Canada.
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So far, I've been unable to find epub books in French. Kobo doesn't sell them. The Sony ebook store doesn't have any. So what exactly are the students going to read on these new devices?
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So far, I've been unable to find epub books in French. Kobo doesn't sell them. The Sony ebook store doesn't have any. So what exactly are the students going to read on these new devices?
There's a list of sites selling ebooks en français here.
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So far, I've been unable to find epub books in French. Kobo doesn't sell them. The Sony ebook store doesn't have any. So what exactly are the students going to read on these new devices?
Yeah, I know what you mean. And then all the literature uses the stupid passe simple. Je fus! Je fus! Or whatever it is. And they wonder why French doesn't catch on. Duh.
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So far, I've been unable to find epub books in French. Kobo doesn't sell them. The Sony ebook store doesn't have any. So what exactly are the students going to read on these new devices?
The Kobo web site I see has them and lets you filter search results by language. B&N I think as well. seems mostly from scans likely by google books.

Favs I like

Numilog - paid, many free. PDFs come in size ok for reader after cropping
epagine.fr - Gallimard and others - haven't gotten too much from them yet
ebooksgratuits.com
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http://classiques.uqac.ca - lots of social science & philosophy. download Word, fix TOC and convert to ePub
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One option seems to be

http://www.kobobooks.com/search/search.html?l=fr

All the options seem to be:

fr french
de german
it italian
es spanish
en english
nl dutch
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I imagine that in many countries, no one has purchased rights to books in languages other than the dominant one in that location. So, for example, if you are limited by the on-line store to books that they can legally sell to you, given your location, you will not be able to purchase them.

In the features list for the new Kobo, they say that not only will they have readers in various languages, but customized stores associated with each of them. I wonder if Canadians will be able to choose FR or EN versions, like we do when we log into BestBuy.

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The Kobo eReader Touch will be the first eReader to be available in multiple languages: English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian, and will offer a completely local experience, including content, recommendations and the Kobo store.
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Old 05-30-2011, 09:00 AM   #12
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bahh.. We are so narrow minded...

you can buy french electronic book in epub format on french store... like Fnac.com.. (you buy it then download it and put it on your kobo ..).. just use your credit card...

the good thing with digital electronic is that you don't need to wait for the boat or plane travel and a stupid +30% on the sell price of french book ...
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