01-13-2013, 06:00 PM | #1126 | |
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Do screen touches to change pages, enter menus etc. not require the processor to do stuff? I would guess that handling real time clock events once a minute wouldn't be a big deal, power wise. |
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01-14-2013, 01:30 AM | #1127 |
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It seems likely that the neonode IR hardware is left powered up, or at least the IR LEDs are active(though perhaps pulsed -I've never read the neonode spec sheet), that the processor drops into a low power sleep mode in between page changes, and an IRQ or NMI is whacked by the neonode hardware to bring the processor out of sleep when a "touch" event is logged. Most microcontrollers also allow for a timed sleep mode where an internal timer counter is allowed to remain powered and clocked until it causes a wakeup by whacking an IRQ internally connected to the timer/counter hardware. That would normally be how you'd handle the wake up to write the screen on a once a minute basis, unless you have an external RTC to whack an interrupt.
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01-16-2013, 03:46 AM | #1128 |
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Firmware request
I'd really like to see that kobo stays on the last page itself when sleep. It may be bit faster to return to read and may be less consumption of battery.
As I often solve puzles on my kobo, it is very good for me to solve puzles when sleep mode. I think that the concept of the sleep screen of book cover comes from paper books. But it is only the physical reason of paper books. |
01-19-2013, 06:43 AM | #1129 |
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The last software update is the buggiest yet. I have never had any problems with my Kobo (had it for a little over a year) but now there's a bug where the wrong cover is shown, it doesn't remember the page I was on when I closed the book, there is no more home/library button on the screen - I have to navigate by first pressing the physical home button and then click around until I get to where I was.
I'm still missing the little black lines on the bottom that indicate how long chapters are and I don't understand why that was taken away. Additionally, now the pages load slower (!) and whenever there's a full page refresh, some lines of text are loaded faster, some stay blank a second longer. It's incredibly annoying. I can't wait for the next update. The way my Kobo Touch works now, it can only get better. |
01-20-2013, 02:07 PM | #1130 |
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Kobo supports UTF-8, so you can read books in different languages. What it doesn't is searching by anything different than (extended) LATIN.
If I read text in Cyrillic (Bulgarian, Russian) there is no way to search by Cyrillic term, by typing them, via the virtual keyboard. Please add keyboard layouts to the virtual keyboard and let me choose Bulgarian/Cyrillic from the settings menu. Personally I own Kobo Glo, but since both Glo and Touch use virtual keyboard, the feature is the same and many international users (like me) will benefit from it! In worst case - please allow putting some xml/txt/ini file, somewhere on the SD card (let say in /languages/) which will be used as virtual keyboard definition file, which will remap the extended LATIN keyboard layout. That's way even, no changes in the GUI will be required to enable extra keyboard languages. Last edited by julandroid; 01-20-2013 at 02:14 PM. |
01-21-2013, 08:22 AM | #1131 |
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I would like to have a dutch Hyphenation file included in the Kobo
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02-04-2013, 04:55 PM | #1132 |
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I'd like to see better EPUB3 support, particularly the ability to read series title/index from the packaging file (see http://idpf.org/epub/30/spec/epub30-...itles-examples). It would be a nice way to set series data for sideloaded books and could be used the same way whenever Kobo starts pushing out EPUB3 books.
Bonus points if it also reads these tags from an EPUB2 packaging file |
04-06-2013, 03:24 PM | #1133 | ||
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I assume that RMSDK already checks for the correct hyphenation files depending on the language of the opened book. |
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04-11-2013, 02:53 PM | #1134 |
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I would like a firmware update that is clean enough I could update from 1.9.17 without fear.
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04-12-2013, 04:06 AM | #1135 |
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My suggestions are about Kobo Glo, that I originally written here (I hope this is the right thread):
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04-13-2013, 02:10 PM | #1136 |
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Another thing: do Kobo developers have taken into consideration to adopt Calibre? I think it's more simple to do a modified version of Calibre instead of maintaining a slow and less powerful software.
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04-15-2013, 10:37 AM | #1137 | |
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Kobo can better ask their rendering engine supplier to support - unofficially or undocumented - some other CSS/HTML5 features that are really missed right now in epub 2 en 3pub (e.g. real small-caps). It relatively easy to implement additional official HTML5 features to the rendering engine. The engine supplier can inventarize under its customers which features should be added to improve the look and feel of digital reading. But yes, Calibre can do things differently, do more and maybe even better. |
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04-15-2013, 11:29 AM | #1138 |
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Well, I spoke about Kobo Desktop, not the internal rendering engine
I noticed some other little problems:
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04-15-2013, 02:24 PM | #1139 | |
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04-15-2013, 03:46 PM | #1140 | |
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