05-10-2016, 10:08 AM | #121 |
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05-10-2016, 10:27 AM | #122 |
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Sideloading library books is so yesterday. Glad Kobo is getting onboard.
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05-10-2016, 10:45 AM | #123 |
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I was under the (perhaps mistaken?) impression that this was the same capability as being able to download ADE books directly on the device rather than having to load them from a PC. This is something that my BeBook Neo, which was also sold as the "Onyx Boox", could do back in 2010. My apologies if I'm mistaken about it being the same feature!
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05-10-2016, 11:42 AM | #124 | |
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05-10-2016, 11:44 AM | #125 | |
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05-10-2016, 11:49 AM | #126 | |
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05-10-2016, 12:04 PM | #127 |
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If Kobo intends to add library downloads directly to the device by leveraging overdrive integration, I think they'll add an overdrive library tile to the screen as an 'app'. Enabling the beta browser for that purpose seems like a Macgyver solution.
Perhaps they have that planned and that's what's causing the delay in releasing a new firmware update for so long. |
05-10-2016, 12:29 PM | #128 |
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Not that they're holding back...simply that the promo probably isn't a sign of a new release being imminent. I'm thinking it might be Sept/Oct now myself. Just because that will be two years since the h2o came out.
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05-10-2016, 07:52 PM | #130 |
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Yes, I'd expect a new device later in the year. But, that might be when we get firmware with OverDrive as well. Most of the new function Kobo has released has been with a new device. Then, it is releases for the other devices.
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05-10-2016, 09:43 PM | #131 |
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I've just worked out why Kobo haven't released a new device. It's fish. They can't decide what to use. It can't be tuna, as everyone would accuse them of copying Amazon. So, they have to come up with something else. If they were English, it would be easy: cod. For Australians, it would barramundi. Or prawns*. If it they were completely Japanese, it would be whale**. But, what is if for Canada? Salmon maybe? Or would they skip the fish and just dip it in maple syrup?
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05-10-2016, 10:25 PM | #132 |
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05-10-2016, 11:21 PM | #133 | |
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Seems like a feature we should have seen by now, given how long Rakuten has owned Overdrive. Maybe there were some legal things to work out. And then the technical aspects. I hope it's a fully functioning app like experience, which allows us to download the epub file either directly, or indirectly through the acsm file. |
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The problem with my earlier post, is that I now have a picture of the Kobo production line: The new devices are moving upstream in a maple syrup channel and there are big hairy men wearing red-checked shirts and Mounties style hats scooping them out of the syrup with their hands while singing a Monty Python song. I'm sure that's a lot more about how my brain (doesn't) work than anyone here needed to know. And now that I've inflicted that on everyone, I might go and do some work. |
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