Things seem to have improved, at least a little, but the issues haven’t been entirely solved. Little thought had gone into the store’s user experience and, disconcertingly, a couple of cheaply made soft-porn titles appeared on the front page of the Short Stories section. Kobo store simply wasn’t as well curated asĪmazon’s Kindle store: a little searching suggested it had as many or almost as many books on offer, and big titles launched there at roughly the same time, but it was much harder to browse. Kobo fell down in our review last year when we pronounced the dreaded word ‘content’. Of course, if you’re reading something embarrassing you may not share our view. It’s nice to have a small extra link with the book, and it makes you feel more immersed. On multiple occasions eBook-using friends have sheepishly admitted to us that they don’t actually know what they are currently reading because they never get to see the cover, as they would with a physical book. Some may find the latter limitation annoying, but we love the default setting. But we suspect that at least some users will find the hair-trigger auto-rotation annoying, and would appreciate a third setting for total lock in a single orientation.īy default, the Kobo uses the cover of your current book as the screensaver – indeed there aren’t any alternatives, so if you disable this option you just get a blank screen with ‘Sleeping’ or ‘Power off’ at the bottom. We habitually swap hands, and after prolonged use would probably choose to keep things this way even if another option was presented. Now, we can see why the makers wanted to allow users to switch from left- to righthand use very easily, even if landscape mode was not wanted. But locked mode, while preventing portrait mode from switching 90 degrees to landscape, still allows the device to rotate the full 180 degrees, and it’s so sensitive that it often flips upside-down when you put the device down on the table. It can be used in either portrait or landscape orientation (the latter designed to have the grip at the bottom), and there’s an option to ‘lock’ this. We mentioned earlier that rotating the device automatically rotates the screen, but we have a slight reservation on that count. There’s a good range of text customisation options: 10 fonts, and the ability to fine-tune text size, margin size and line spacing to an enormously granular degree. Tap the central third of the screen to bring up menu options, including brightness, text size, and chapter quick jumps. Select something to read from the My Books menu, then navigate by either tapping on the left or right side of the screen, or using the top (back) and bottom (forward) buttons on the grip. Kobo wants to solve that and provide an alternative.As you would hope, the Forma is simple to use. If you want to listen to audiobooks on an e-reader, right now Kindle is the only game in town. Users can access content they have used credits for or make new purchases right on the Kindle. In select markets, you can attach a pair of wireless Bluetooth headphones and listen to audiobooks purchased from Audible. The main reason why Kobo is introducing audio, is because Amazon has been doing it on their Kindle line of e-readers for a couple of years. Some users don’t really care about audiobooks on an e-reader, they have their smartphone or tablet for such things. It is also rumored that Overdrive will introduce audiobook support on the Foma 2, so users can download free content from their local library branch. This will allow Kobo to sell audiobooks on an individual basis, and also prompt users to subscribe to their platform, so users can pay a monthly fee and choose what audiobook they want. A second generation Forma is in the works, it will have audiobook functionality. It has been rumored for the past six months that Kobo plans on releasing two new e-readers in 2021. Normally Kobo lets you know if a product is out of stock, by stating it on the product description page, so it looks like the website team has not updated the listing yet. Once you start this process it lets you know that it is completely sold out. The main Kobo website does not say the item is out of stock, until you add it to the cart and attempt a checkout. It does not appear that Kobo has any plans for another production run, although the 8GB model is still available. Kobo never officially announces when a specific e-reader has been shuttered. The main Kobo website has been out of stock for a few weeks and all of their retail partners are no longer have it in stock. Multiple sources have confirmed with Good e-Reader that Rakuten Kobo has discontinued the Kobo Forma 32GB model in all markets.
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