Aura NEW Kobo Aura Impressions Thread!

[Ripplinger]

Originally Posted by abcman123

... I bought it from Kobo's site so I would expect the format to be ok. ...

I can't tell you how appalled I felt the first time I ran into an issue like, at having paid money for several books with such horrible formatting. Sadly, it probably won't be the last time you run into it either.

It's times like that when I appreciate the people even more that give us great free software like Sigil and Calibre to correct the problems publishers and lack of proofing give us.

[PeterT]

Originally Posted by abcman123

http://store.kobobooks.com/en-CA/ebo...ator-s-dilemma

Poop. The preview shows so little as to be useless

Except... in the Kobo Desktop I see the same issue on the "In Gratitude" page.

The first paragraph

Although this book lists only one author, in reality the ideas it molds together were contributed and refined by many extraordinarily insightful and selfless colleagues.

is in a small font, and the second one

I am similarly indebted to the many executives and employees of companies in the disk drive industry who opened their memories and records to me as I tried to understand what had driven them in the particular courses they had taken.

I'm not overly sure why this is happening though. The 1st paragraph is marked up with <p class="p1"> and the second with just <p>, however the definitions of the two CSS's is identical apart from a text indent setting.

    p { display: block;
 font-size: small;
 margin-top: 0em;
 margin-bottom: 0em;
 margin-left: 0em;
 margin-right: 0em;
 text-indent: 20pt;
 }
    .p1 { display: block;
 font-size: small;
 margin-top: 0em;
 margin-bottom: 0em;
 margin-left: 0em;
 margin-right: 0em;
 text-indent: 0em;
 }

Opening the material in Sigil or ADE all displays correctly. (This is all from just working with the Preview from the website).

I am going to pass this on to Kobo...

[bargainofoz]

Has anyone from Australia received theirs?

[robko]

Originally Posted by mimosavj

Wow, that sounds great! Thank you for the quick response. My VN ebooks don't have any embedded fonts since I use Sony PRS 650 with PRS+ and custom CSS which reference to my Vietnamese unicode fonts. My question is that if I drag & drop the unicode fonts to the Kobo Aura, can I use that font to read my VN ebooks which don't have embedded fonts?

Thank you.
mimosa

As long as they are OTF or TTF format I believe they should work (the guru's with more detailed tech knowledge of fonts will correct me if I'm wrong ). You do need to put them into a directory named "fonts" (all lower case) and they have to be named properly to get bold/italics to work, but there are a bunch of threads that can help you with that.

[PeterT]

Originally Posted by PeterT

Opening the material in Sigil or ADE all displays correctly. (This is all from just working with the Preview from the website).

I am going to pass this on to Kobo...

Taming supplied me with an idea that appears to explain what is happening.

The first paragraph is <p class="p1">. Both p and .p1 contain "font-size: small". It appears that the rendering engine is applying the font-size: small of the .p1 relative to the font-size: of the p. This is not how ADE or Sigil interpret the same markup.

[Lynx-lynx]

Curious .... how much is the Aura in Canada and how much in the US.

In Aus it'll be $189.

[mimosavj]

Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx

Curious .... how much is the Aura in Canada and how much in the US.

In Aus it'll be $189.

It's US$149 on kobo site except that it is out of stock

[mimosavj]

Originally Posted by robko

As long as they are OTF or TTF format I believe they should work (the guru's with more detailed tech knowledge of fonts will correct me if I'm wrong ). You do need to put them into a directory named "fonts" (all lower case) and they have to be named properly to get bold/italics to work, but there are a bunch of threads that can help you with that.

Thank you so much, I am really tempted now. Maybe I should wait until the Bug Reports start to come in. Thanks again

Mimosa

[PeterT]

@mimosavj: Expect the bugs to be the same in ANY of the Kobo eReaders (save for those related to the new swipe motions on the screen). All the Kobo eReaders in effect use the same firmware (just released at differiing times).

[bartveld]

Originally Posted by mimosavj

Hi

Thank you for all the great reviews. I'm tempted to get one too. Can anyone please list the fonts available on the Aura? I have a number of books in Vietnamese so I would like to read them without doing the calibre embedding/converting steps.

Thanks
mimosa

All info on adding your own fonts here.

[John F]

Originally Posted by robko

Obviously it remains to be seen with the Aura 6", but pin pricks haven't seemed to be a significant issue with previous Kobo readers. When there was a few people with the problem, it did seem to be a batch that had the issue (i.e. all the devices at a given store had the problem) rather than a widespread issue. Likely you won't need to send it back.

I think for many people it is not the small chance of getting one with a problem, it is having to possibly deal with Kobo's questionable customer service.

[evelynne_r]

Originally Posted by abcman123

I have noticed that the Kobo is displaying some random paragraphs at a much smaller font than the rest of them. Has anyone else noticed this? I hope it gets sorted out in an update

Actually, now that you mention it, I did notice that in one book. Other books I've taken a look at are fine.

[gargoyle67]

Well I canceled my online order and picked one up in the WHSmiths store, got home fired it up and found I had a couple of black dots on the screen Don't know if there were dust particles trapped under the plastic top screen or something else. I took the Aura back and got a replacement that looked ok in store (no back dots) got home and noticed two light leakage dots when the screen went to a black screen So took that one back and had to get a refund as they only had the two in stock, prob not a bad thing considering the QC on these things

I did like the form factor of this device it's like a mini but 6" screen I also liked the screen changes without the black refresh, I didn't like the plastic feel of the top screen though, just felt cheap.
Looking at my V1 paperwhite and the Aura side by side the text looked better on the PW for some reason, Fonts just looked darker and sharper and the screen looked whiter, might just be the way I had the Aura setup though, I did fiddle about with the settings a bit on the Aura but still preferred the PW.

I won't be getting another Aura I think I'll go for a PW V2 or just wait for something better.

[tlaine]

Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx

Curious .... how much is the Aura in Canada and how much in the US.

In Aus it'll be $189.

149.99 in Canada, so about 155.65 AUD

[neil74]

Originally Posted by gargoyle67

Well I canceled my online order and picked one up in the WHSmiths store, got home fired it up and found I had a couple of black dots on the screen Don't know if there were dust particles trapped under the plastic top screen or something else. I took the Aura back and got a replacement that looked ok in store (no back dots) got home and noticed two light leakage dots when the screen went to a black screen

.

Mmm not good, that's 2 people on here already. If mine has these issues then considering I'll have to post it back I think I'll leave it at one and stick with my PW.