10-04-2013, 07:55 PM | #811 |
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Why does this topic exist? Shouldn't we be asking Kobo to fix the current problems now.
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Bugs in the current firmware have their own thread -- see the Kobo Bug Thread if you want to complain about/comment on/whatever what you see as a bug in a current firmware release. Regards, David |
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Here's something that I don't know whether to call a bug report or a feature request...
I picked up a neat little gizmo from SanDisk that's a "Wireless Flash Drive." Short form: it's a chunky thumb drive with a built-in WiFi router. It's designed to be a way for multiple mobile devices to connect to a common data pool - for instance, store some music on it and different people can connect to the drive's network and access it. The important consideration is that it's a LAN; its purpose is to let devices interact without needing to access the internet. Anyway, my idea was to store a copy of my DRM-free ebooks on the drive, so I could delete 'em after reading but be able to connect to the drive "in the wild" if I wanted to access 'em. Sounds reasonable, right? My Kobo Glo will see the drive's network and let me attempt to connect to it, but always comes back with a vague error message. My Kindle Touch does the same thing, but gives a clearer message: it won't let me connect to the drive's WiFi because it can't get from there to the internet. It seems logical that this is likewise the case on the Glo. I'd like to see that restriction removed. Sometimes you really do just want to connect to a LAN, and the Kobo firmware should permit that. |
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Seems to work for me to have my Aura HD not automatically power off. Regards, David |
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Page numbers in a fixed layout epub? For the joy of reading a fixed layout epub, try reading a pdf. While you're at it, take a good look at the Adobe algorithm used for calculating the page numbers that Kobo display in the right margin (if enabled) and for the footer. Look at a chapter file, count the number of 1024 byte blocks of compressed data remembering to always round up (1023 is 1 page, 1025 is 2 pages but the page number will be split at 512/513). If the epub has Adobe's ADEPT DRM, use the fudge factor for DRMed epubs since it adds a few bytes to each file. Now try to get those synthetic page numbers to relate to page numbers in a dead tree book. And just to add more joy, the page numbering algorithm used by the ACCESS renderer is slightly different as well. Regards, David |
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In the PDF reader, please make page turning bars wider.
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10-07-2013, 06:25 PM | #820 | |
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He's not overcomplicating the problem; you're oversimplifying it. Your reader uses multiple different ways to calculate page numbers, depending on context, and some of those bear little resemblance to the "real page numbers" found in a printed book. That makes it impossible to "just pick one" without harmonizing all of those systems...which is a much taller order than you might think. I just finished a book last night that has a print page count around 380, but an electronic count closer to 260. Which one is right? Last edited by Rev. Bob; 10-07-2013 at 06:27 PM. |
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For me the only reason for having page numbers instead of, oh shocking thought, just navigating to a chapter would be to match the page numbers with a dead tree book. In a dead tree book, the page numbers are fixed and you need to flip through the pages to get to a chapter which is rather different from tapping on "Chapter 10 – The Wager Lost By Winning" and being deposited at that position in the ebook. Perhaps you can enlighten me as to why you would want a number that lacks any true relevance to be displayed? I really don't think that I am making a mountain out of a molehill. I however do seem to realize how the page numbers displayed in an epub format ebook are synthesized. If you can point me in the direction of a easy bug free method of inserting page numbers into the toc.ncx file -- remembering that we have a limited number of characters and several times I have seen TOC entries that required a tap to display the full chapter title and other entries that used an image file. Regards, David |
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In case I haven't made it clear, I know next to nothing about epubs/kepubs. And I'll just restate what I said before, selecting an entry in the table of contents, I see a page displayed with a page number at the bottom. I would like that page number displayed in the table of contents; I'm not saying the current API supports it, I do think it should be "easy" to display the page number. I do realize that it is easy for me to say, but so far, I haven't heard a good reason why it isn't easy. |
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David, you do stuff with Calibre? Are you thinking of making changes for Calibre? My comments weren't made with regards to Calibre, but with regards to the kobo devices.
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Pretty much the only way to have page numbers that would reflect the viewable characters would require the ereader to open the ebook, uncompress and render the data for all the page files and then calculate page numbers using a currently non-existent standard for a page size. Regards, David |
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