12-22-2012, 08:38 AM | #211 |
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And... I have a bunch of new (and old) bugs to report. I'm going through a book that is getting a lot of annotations.
The unstable selection thumbs bug is even worse. This is where moving the right thumb sometimes causes the left thumb to move. And vice versa. This problem has gotten worse it two ways: it takes less effort to destablise the thumbs, and it now sometimes selects huge chunks of the screen without the thumbs being displayed. This bug is now at least three versions old. The selection still doesn't let you end a selection on the last character of a paragraph (which is usually a full stop (or a period)). This bug is so old that Fred Flintstone was getting it on his Kobo Slab (the prehistoric tablet). And a new bug: when selecting a single word for a dictionary lookup, sometimes huge sections of the screen are selected (just like in the unstable selection thumbs bug) and the dictionary box pops up with the entire selection in it, and noted as doesn't exist in the dictionary. |
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Having said that, I do change the styles of my epubs to make the page look like a paperback page. That is what I am used to when reading novels and the gap between the paragraphs wastes to much space. I set the widows and orphans to zero, but I'm not sure if that is the right thing for me. Quote:
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12-22-2012, 09:21 AM | #213 |
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Not new with 2.3.1. I am getting it on 2.1.5. This is a retail book where I stripped it down to bare bones CSS, with each paragraph having a 0 top/bottom margin. I've had 2 instances where a paragraph was a "page" or just over a page long. The previous paragraph had just under half a page of blank space after it because those long paragraphs were forced to start on the next "page". I have widows/orphans set to 0 as well. I actually went back into the code with Sigil to see what the heck I missed and both paragraphs were exactly the same as the ones before and after them, no special formatting.
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Well if that's true, how come this widow/orphan thing didn't show up until --uhm-- after 2.0.0 (just guessing)? Something somewhere changed in a Kobo firmware after which these gaps at the bottom of the page started to appear.
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I don't now. Maybe Kobo fixed a bug where they were not following the default rules and using 0 as the default.
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12-22-2012, 06:47 PM | #216 |
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My wi-fi update still continue to download and install some software, but my version says 2.1.5 and nothing looks different; I still have multiple shelves. This has happened on 5 successive updates now.
Not sure what's going on with that. |
12-22-2012, 09:54 PM | #217 |
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Sounds if if it keeps trying to update the firmware and failing. Maybe a factory reset to square one and retry from that.
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Also, the second book, the non-fiction, has issues with trying to get the notes to function so that they actually take you to the note at the back of the book and then back again to the reading point. Also the annotations and highlighting, were saving and then disappearing. |
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12-23-2012, 05:27 AM | #219 | |
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If the ebook is in epub format and not DRMed, you can use Sigil to examine the links. Though I have to warn you that looking at the source for many ebooks may be hard on your stomach. Very often, the first thought that comes to mind is that your 4 year old child/grandchild/neighbour/Malemute could do a better job of creating a standards compliant ebook. Regards, David |
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12-23-2012, 05:47 AM | #220 |
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I've finally hit a couple of the more commonly reported bugs here (which I previously hadn't). Namely the bold-instead-of-italics bug and the returning-to-the-nearest-page-rather-than-paragraph bug. Actually I'm inclined to believe there's a more general problem about recording positions to the nearest page because I also did a search and jumped to one of the results only to find I was about 3 screens behind the actual occurrence of the search text.
I'd previously tested with kepubs and side-loaded epubs. This was also a an epub but significantly perhaps it was originally a mobi, converted via calibre. The previous epubs I tested started life as epubs. This may account for a difference. When I get the time I'll try to dig more deeply into the differences and see if I can narrow down the problem. That won't be until after Christmas now. |
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As to checking if it works, I don't have the book or a source for it to test with. |
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12-23-2012, 10:08 AM | #222 |
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I wish they would remove the 5 books on the Home Page.
I'd like to just see books I haven't read on the Home Page, even if that means there's only one or two. ltr |
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I refer to the super text note numbers that are part of the text in the body of the material. I take your point re bottom of the page reference notes, but my non-fiction currently seem to favour the superscript style. So I suppose we can gather that irrespective of the style of note, super text or bottom of the page, there is a link to and from problem irrespective of their highlighted or underscored appearance on the page (which normally means they are defined to work). Yes Sigil is a way to go, though quite frankly I get around all this another way: I use my BB playbook to read these non-fictions and it is still the best overall ereader I have. But the Playbook reader app does not highlight or annotate so I need to have my Sony reader at the same time and then I can do those things on that. The reason I don't use the Sony is because unless I'm reading outdoors, or under good overhead light, I require 1 or 2 reading lights. I bought the Glo for 2 primary reasons: the built in light and the fact that it handled non-fiction. Hmmmmmmphh ..... no it doesn't handle non-fiction!! Last edited by Lynx-lynx; 12-23-2012 at 04:20 PM. Reason: grammar |
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