Try out the new Kobo app reading experience
At Rakuten Kobo, our #1 goal is to create products that make reading lives better.
Our product, development, and design teams have been hard at work rethinking how readers like you read eBooks on the Kobo iOS App. Whether you read on an iPad or your iPhone, the Kobo App team wanted to improve your reading experience on the App. You can be one of the first to try it and tell us what you think! Feedback from our customers is very important to us and helps shape the way our products are made.
How to try the new reading experience on the Kobo iOS App:
Note: Please ensure that you have the latest version of the iOS Kobo App. (Get it here: Kobo iOS app)
1. In Settings tap Experimental Features
Kobo iOS app Settings menu
2. Slide the switch to activate New Reading Experience and enjoy the new experience!
Slide the switch to activate the New Reading Experience experimental feature
3. We encourage customers to provide us feedback as you read using this new experimental feature. You can use the "Send us Feedback" button to get a message to our Product team, so please let us know what you think!
Let us know what you think about the new features within the app
What's new about the reading experience:
- Reading settings — all options are now available under one button
- Margins and line spacing — more options to adjust to your preferred text layout
- Enhanced eBook navigation — drag the slider to easily jump back and forth through your book
- Text layout on tablets — now available in two columns
- Bookmarking book— tap an icon in the header to create a bookmark
- Menu details — added Highlight, Note, Dictionary, Search, and Wikipedia labels
- Landscape note-taking on phones — now available without changing your phone’s orientation
- List of annotations — easily find your notes and highlights
- Padlock icon 🔒— now indicates locked chapters in a preview
Please bear in mind these features are experimental and you may encounter some instability. Thank you for trying our new reading experience, and we look forward to receiving any feedback you may have!
