A Note on Kobo
I know they’re gonna take over the world and everything, and they’ve got 1.8 million unreadable auto-OCR’d texts from the Archive, and they’ve completely abandoned their initial plan for viewing titles a chapter at a time, and… stuff. But, even after the name change, they’re not in the top 20 Free Apps at the App Store.
Can we have a rule that you aren’t allowed to be called a multiplatform Kindle-killer until, you know, you get to the first page? Like a height requirement at amusement parks.
Thank you.
Disclaimer: There was a tourist trap/guesthouse in Tokyo run by a guy named Kibo, who always gave great deals ‘n top service to Lonely Planet authors but absolutely sucked for anyone else. So, you know, maybe the name’s got bad connotations for me… and all the Canuck teachers working there at that time who got lured in.
/Even today, much better deals in Kita-Otsuka, right by the JR Line.
December 23rd, 2009 at 12:50 pm
> and they’ve got 1.8 million unreadable
> auto-OCR’d texts from the Archive
plus — as if to add insult to injury –
the internet archive now “converts” those
unreadable texts into the .epub format!
what a sick joke this has all become.
-bowerbird