07-10-2012, 10:46 PM | #91 | |
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DRM free books can be handled by Adobe Desktop Editions, Calibre, or even your computer's file manager. |
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07-10-2012, 10:50 PM | #92 |
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If the device is already registered, you should be able to downgrade without re-registering. Just make a backup copy of it on your computer prior to doing a factory reset, and copy it back to the Kobo after the reset.
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07-10-2012, 11:00 PM | #93 | |
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In this case, yes it does. The Kobo Desktop will indeed force you to upgrade your firmware. In my case I sideload ALL my books anyway so the only time I use the Kobo Desktop is to upgrade my firmware. I don't even use it to buy or read books on my desktop. Perhaps if they ever add any of the features to the desktop that I mentioned in another thread I might use it... I'm just grateful that I am able to downgrade. It's a shame companies don't really listen to the people using their products. Instead of taking things away, or moving them to different areas making them more inaccessbile, how about just adding in some options to the damn settings. Display time on center tap [ ] yes [ ] no. Display Bottom Carousel on Home Screen [ ] yes [ ] no Discover New books [ ] yes [ ] no Those are just some examples that would please most of the people. Companies seem to make changes by choosing to piss off the least amount of people rather that how they can implement changes that will please just about all of the people... I digress, the more I think about this the more it .... |
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07-11-2012, 01:09 AM | #94 |
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An otherwise great release torpedoed by one fatal flaw as far as I'm concerned: side-loaded fonts have barely any weight to them at all. As someone who uses side-loaded fonts for 90% of my reading this is a real deal breaker. Hopefully this can be fixed soon. It would be great to have the same options for side-loaded fonts as for the pre-loaded ones...
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07-11-2012, 02:16 AM | #95 |
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OK, so now we officially have shelves, but if I populate them, how to I saved that data if I have to--perish the thought--do a reset sometime in the future? I don't want to put a couple hundred titles on shelves only to have that evaporate in a reset.
Calibre doesn't pick up the shelf tags. Or does it but in a column that has to be created? Alternatively, it would be easier to tag/shelve books in Calibre and transfer the books to the KT. Possible? Last edited by GvilleBridge; 07-11-2012 at 03:40 AM. |
07-11-2012, 02:57 AM | #96 |
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Perhaps furture versions of Calibre will support shelves? Well, we could always hope.
Until then, you can try backing up the file .kobo/KoboReader.sqlite. This is where the list of shelves and content of each shelf is stored. You will have to restore your books to the same filenames and directories though, since the database tables refer to the files by name. I also don't know if this data is preserved while rebuilding the database. Incidentally, I noticed a new table called ratings. I wonder if this is foreshadowing a future feature. |
07-11-2012, 03:02 AM | #97 |
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Here's an idea for the weights of sideloaded fonts. I don't know if it will work since I haven't tried it, but the folks who use sideloaded fonts may want to test it out.
There is a file called .kobo/Kobo/Kobo eReader.conf. I noticed the following line: readingFontWeight\Amasis=@Variant(\0\0\0\x87>#\xd7 \n) Maybe, just maybe, you can try changing Amasis to the name of your sideloaded font and it will change the weight for you. |
07-11-2012, 04:04 AM | #98 |
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This seems to be a very good release, but I can't make out how to get the shelves. I have gone through the business of making a new shelf - give it a name, hit Next, select the appropriate books for that shelf, and at the end of the list I hit Create, which I assume is the appropriate thing to do. But then I can't find the shelf. When I hit Shelves, it just comes up with the screen saying New Shelf.
I'm probably missing something really basic, but would appreciate advice as I have spent quite some time trying to make it work. Thanks in anticipation. |
07-11-2012, 04:26 AM | #99 | |
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Why don't you try creating a shelf called test, but skip the adding books step. If that works, you will know that you're going through the right process and there's some sort of bug in the shelves feature. (Maybe it didn't like the name you gave the shelf, or maybe it didn't like one of the books you added to the shelf.) |
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07-11-2012, 04:36 AM | #100 |
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Thanks BWinmill. I have tried this, but still nothing. I didn't have the plug in talked about earlier, but I do have a lot of public domain books. Maybe it doesn't like them.
I'm going out shortly, so I think I shall try again tomorrow. Thanks again. |
07-11-2012, 04:38 AM | #101 | |
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Again, how? The books on Kobo's site are all Adobe DRM so I can open them in Digital Editions but then what? If I try to download directly from Kobo, I get an acsm file which is just the license file. Is there some other software that will let me get hold of the file so I can put it on a card in order to side load it (I am assuming that is what you mean when you say "side load")? |
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07-11-2012, 05:55 AM | #102 | |
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The strange thing is that sideloaded fonts work with kobo epubs bot not with sideloaded epubs. The standard fonts seem to work fine with both kepubs and sideloaded epubs. |
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07-11-2012, 06:11 AM | #103 |
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This new font handling really bothers me. The built-in fonts cannot display special characters (like hungarian or polish as mentioned before), and the manually added ones appears unreadably thin.
I managed to replace the built-in Georgia to the same type with full character set, so now i have this one and only font to read hungarian texts. Still can't use my favorite one, Gentium Book Basic. (by the way, there was a poll of font preferences...) I think this "font tuning" is pointless anyway: the limited display resolution and number of grey shades causes that only a handful of size and antialias combination looks acceptable. A competent typographer should choose a wide variety of typefaces and set them look good on this device, instead of let the readers struggle to find a good setting. |
07-11-2012, 06:47 AM | #104 |
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I can confirm the discrepancy with the font handling. I use "Palatine" for e-reading on my Touch (will provide the .ttf for testing if required).
Under a kepub, Palatine displays and behaves fine. Under a epub, the hinting disappears completely and the font is unreadable. The irony is that the font appears perfectly fine when displayed in the font selection drop down on the epub. The problem occurs once its selected and applied. There also appears to be some discrepancy with the application of stock fonts as well between kobo epubs and regular epubs. I've tried this with a range of epubs from various sources. I've a feeling this will have something to do with the style formatting in the kobo epubs and its interaction with the new font-rendering, but I've not got a whole lot to go on bar my gut. If anyone from Kobo wants more details and information, I'm happy to be contacted via Twitter (kianryan). |
07-11-2012, 07:20 AM | #105 | |
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Other then that, the update is slower to process and boot into the system the first time. I found that after waiting a bit.. and not rushing into a factory reset the system booted fine.... My guess is the new update is busy processing things etc., and thats the reason for the slow boot. Regards JAck |
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