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ebooks2012-04-10 09:25 am
fred_mouse) wrote in ebooks2012-04-10 09:25 am
survey fail
quick background: I bought a kobo touch ereader for my youngest child's 8th birthday, with the intention of putting lots of the ebooks from the Gutenberg project on it. While getting this working is still ongoing, due to tech fail on my part (not working out which parts of the process were going to require internet access, and then going away for the weekend), zie is pretty excited by the idea.
On to the reason for this post: Today, I checked my email, and found a 'recommendations' set, which includes the option to take a survey about my thoughts on the recommendations. Given that I don't like the recommendations that we are getting, and I'd like to work out how to stop them on the kobo, so that zie doesn't read the free previews of things that zie really shouldn't be reading, I took the opportunity to make comment.
Unfortunately, some of my responses are going to be irrelevant, because I had to fake the age - the choices start at 18, and go up. Plus, for the 'how do you like to get recommendations', none of the options were relevant, so I filled in 'none' in the 'other' box, which it insisted that I had in fact not answered the question.
On the plus side, I've found that I might have the opportunity to modify what is recommended. Now all I have to do is log in to the site, and see how I go with poking the buttons.
Has anyone had any luck with changing those preferences?
(mostly posted to grumble about stupid publishing industry who assume that the only people who use their stuff are the ones that they want to market to)
On to the reason for this post: Today, I checked my email, and found a 'recommendations' set, which includes the option to take a survey about my thoughts on the recommendations. Given that I don't like the recommendations that we are getting, and I'd like to work out how to stop them on the kobo, so that zie doesn't read the free previews of things that zie really shouldn't be reading, I took the opportunity to make comment.
Unfortunately, some of my responses are going to be irrelevant, because I had to fake the age - the choices start at 18, and go up. Plus, for the 'how do you like to get recommendations', none of the options were relevant, so I filled in 'none' in the 'other' box, which it insisted that I had in fact not answered the question.
On the plus side, I've found that I might have the opportunity to modify what is recommended. Now all I have to do is log in to the site, and see how I go with poking the buttons.
Has anyone had any luck with changing those preferences?
(mostly posted to grumble about stupid publishing industry who assume that the only people who use their stuff are the ones that they want to market to)
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As to purpose of the ereader - I want youngest to have some exposure to 'classics' which I don't tend to find easily available in paper form, and so have started with Project Gutenberg, and will see where else to go from there. Unless there are very specific books available through kobo, I can't imagine myself buying any either! For me, the ebook reader *is* the expense, not the start of the spending. Shall have to see how it goes though.
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