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Hello folks,
There's this post over at Reddit by the "Kobo Research Team" asking for participation on a 10 minute survey to collect some data. I think our community may want to contribute to the survey. The post is available here: https://www.reddit.com/r/kobo/commen...bos_future_by/ (Note: I have no ties with Rakuten, I'm just sharing the post) Quote:
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Took the survey, thanks for notifying.
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Almost done ... What's the difference between non-binary and two-spirit?
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Two-spirited was invented by gay and lesbian Indigenous people to describe Indigenous people. It is not be used for anyone not of Indigenous ancestry as it was chosen to distinguish and distance Native American/First Nations people from non-Native peoples.
And yes, it has been decried as racist, divisive, etc. |
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Taken the survery, thank you.
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Very important survey.
Thanks for sharing. I see Kobo is feeling the bite from Remarkable. I also appreciate that they want to know how important sideloaded book and annotation syncing across devices is to their users. |
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I took the survey and in the question about what else could be done to make reading better, I said to make a more powerful processor and a more powerful battery.
It would be good if everyone could do the same. |
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the rook, bossing Never.
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I doubt reMarkable are any threat to anyone. Dire spec, loads of hype. USB only via networking, only native PDF. About 6 G storage. No on device handwriting conversion. No metadata browsing, only a file system. It's obviously a much better screen than the DX/DXG, but to actually browse books or copy to/from it, it is worse. I gave it away. The reMarkable is a one trick pony and a niche in a niche. I expect them to go bust.
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the rook, bossing Never.
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They seem curious about so called "cloud" based stuff, I suppose fashionable, but really your own laptop makes more sense for notes/annotations (one use of cloud, especially reMarkable's) and the other "cloud" thing is sync, but most people only have one device which makes it irrelevant.
Unusually well designed survey. Most are rubbish. |
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Well, that's up to Kobo I guess. Just like they added the OpenDyslectic font. Luckily Kobo lets me still choose whether to use it or not. And as long as they do that, I do not mind a bit. And perhaps, somebody might actually like it and find it helpful, who knows.
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the rook, bossing Never.
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Cloud is not at all a good backup solution: 1) Too slow (though incremental for an ereader would work). 2) No assurance of privacy 3) Opaque security 4) How do they backup (many don't!)? 5) Needs internet. Having everything also on laptop/desktop/tablet etc and backing that up to a USB drive (or two), even leaving a copy at someone else's house. I have my own near unlimited hosting and I don't use it for backups. I make backups of that! P.S. the new Avatar looks like someone smart ![]() |
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