Glo Kobo Software Update 2.5

[Anak]

Originally Posted by jgoguen

Is this a Kobo-purchased kepub or a kepub from my plugin?

This is a generated epub from your plugin. But I doubt if it's a bug in your plugin as it also happens with the plugin Hyphenate This! from SauliusP.
That only hyphenates a epub and which I afterwards renamed to kepub.epub.

No matter how you change the default text alignment settings in the epub (body {text-align:justify;}) or on the device itself, the text alignment stays left.
I think is a rendering bug in de rendering engine used by Kepubs.
The epubs are correctly displayed when RMSDK (Adobe Reader Mobile) is used.
IMO no plugin bug of Kobo Touch Extended or Hypenate This!

[jgoguen]

So I suspect that this is actually a "bug" caused by doing things which aren't officially supported and which we have little hope of actually addressing properly. So far as I can determine, Kobo-generated kepubs do not contain soft hyphens and instead use a built-in hyphenation dictionary. I only added hyphenation support because I've never actually seen a hyphenated kepub and most of my books look better with hyphenation. I also don't use centre justification (my settings have it set to "left"). I would say that it's going to be a personal choice, if justification is important then don't hyphenate, or hyphenate and force left justification if hyphenation is more important.

[Anak]

@jgoguen. Indeed, Kobo uses a build-in hyphenation dictonary that automatically does hypenate words. But Kobo does not supply or use these dictionaries for all languages.
Is it to much to ask to support all the languages that are mentioned in the UI language settings menu?
And this is just one reason why people hack their devices.

Whether a book is manually hyphenated or not it should not have any impact on the text alignment settings. So it's a bug. A bug they probably will not fix as it is not a supported feature.

[jgoguen]

And considering that a Kobo developer explicitly said that they recommend we not access the kepub reader at all

[beautifulsoup]

Originally Posted by Anak

If you open Adobe Digital Edition and connect your reader to the computer it will be recognized by ADE. There is an option to reauthorize your reader. After that your DRM protected books will open.

Where does one find that option to reauthorize? (I'm now having this problem with two Kobo Touch readers).

(I'm in Adobe 1.7.2.1131).

[Mrs_Often]

Originally Posted by robko

One little addition: you no longer have to put http:\\ in front of web addresses in the browser. You can just put the www. address and it works.

Originally Posted by KevinShort

I just recieved the update via wifi on my Glo, and I can confirm that the lowest light level is just a bit dimmer than it used to be. I also noticed that the light won't come on if the brightness slider is set to the minimum.

Originally Posted by samhy

Yay for the numbers being back in the sudoku's bottom bar!

Originally Posted by Caramon77

have you noticed if it's now possible to augment upper and lower margins? In many ebooks the text start too close to the bezel and i have to modify the CSS property in Calibre.

Ooooh fun, I love all the new additions mentioned above. Especially the adjustable top and bottom margins! How come only one person mentioned it? And, I wonder how the lower light level affects the Glo's with the yellow tinted LEDs?

I haven't updated to 2.5 yet, and am not sure if I should. I haven't been reading lately and if I do find time to I might have to force myself to actually read instead of mess around with new updates.

Originally Posted by beautifulsoup

Where does one find that option to reauthorize? (I'm now having this problem with two Kobo Touch readers).

(I'm in Adobe 1.7.2.1131).

I wouldn't recommend you do that. Every time you re-authorise you use up one of your slots of six devices that you are allowed to authorise. Even if you're re-authorising a device you've previously authorised. Try removing the external SD card and restarting and the things others have mentioned about this issue, before resorting to messing around with re-authorisation.

[Willa]

*Waves* Welcome back!

[paola]

Originally Posted by Willa

*Waves* Welcome back!

yeah, wondering what you've been up to!

[Mrs_Often]

Originally Posted by Willa

*Waves* Welcome back!

Originally Posted by paola

yeah, wondering what you've been up to!

Thanks girls! Sorry, I was offered a job so BAM I'm working full time. Haven't yet learnt how to plan my free time... I'm here just briefly today, and no promises for the near future, but, I will be trying to visit more often

[paola]

Originally Posted by Mrs_Often

Thanks girls! Sorry, I was offered a job so BAM I'm working full time. Haven't yet learnt how to plan my free time... I'm here just briefly today, and no promises for the near future, but, I will be trying to visit more often

hey, congratulations on your brand new job!!!

EDIT: perhaps you need to buy yourself an Aura to celebrate

[Mrs_Often]

Originally Posted by paola

hey, congratulations on your brand new job!!!

Thanks!!

EDIT: perhaps you need to buy yourself an Aura to celebrate

Hahaha no no no no no! NO!

Nah, I don't really see the perks. My Glo has everything I need. Bigger and sharper? Nah, Glo is big and sharp enough. I don't really get why they released the Aura. But then, I haven't really looked into it nor read any of the threads about it and I think it might be better if I don't

[paola]

Originally Posted by Mrs_Often

Nah, I don't really see the perks. My Glo has everything I need. Bigger and sharper? Nah, Glo is big and sharp enough. I don't really get why they released the Aura. But then, I haven't really looked into it nor read any of the threads about it and I think it might be better if I don't

if you don't want to risk succumbing to sirens' calling, don't look, not here, not in the Aura thread in the "news" forum: it is making victims all over, including kindle users (!), and some stores have already run out of stocks (e.g. from WHSmith you can only get it in black now), so it looks like the Aura flu epidemic is highly contagious!

[Mrs_Often]

Originally Posted by paola

if you don't want to risk succumbing to sirens' calling, don't look, not here, not in the Aura thread in the "news" forum: it is making victims all over, including kindle users (!), and some stores have already run out of stocks (e.g. from WHSmith you can only get it in black now), so it looks like the Aura flu epidemic is highly contagious!

Ooooh! Thanks for the warning! I will definitely run away now then.

Glad to see Kobo's winning over some Kindle people though

[PeterT]

Originally Posted by Mrs_Often

Glad to see Kobo's winning over some Kindle people though

But remember that also means we can expect to see comments like "My Kindle does not do that...." or "Kobo SUX because of how it does X, Y, Z".

[Mrs_Often]

Originally Posted by PeterT

But remember that also means we can expect to see comments like "My Kindle does not do that...." or "Kobo SUX because of how it does X, Y, Z".

Mmmm true. But, we've all been trained to thicken our skins lately, so we'll live