02-18-2013, 12:26 PM | #451 |
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Folders! I really miss having folders.
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02-18-2013, 06:41 PM | #452 |
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What don't you like? Where calibre puts the books and how they are named is very customisable. All you have to do is change the save template to put them somewhere else.
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02-19-2013, 08:45 AM | #453 |
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Oh, I didn't notice that option. Nice! Still, folders would be pretty neat.
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02-22-2013, 01:02 PM | #454 | |
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And I also need to "watch the device boot so I know it is working". Which is never an absolute certitude. So they did find several ways to break the cover display. Once I guessed something like that because it sometimes seemed to be linked to a new way of refreshing the screen by larger stripes. |
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02-23-2013, 01:47 PM | #455 |
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- an option to the effect that the device remains in text selection mode after closing the dictionary screen. This is important for reading Japanese text, since the device is unable to auto-select Japanese words (Sure, this is not the fault of the device, but depends on the nature of the Japanese writing system). Therefore, you have to slowly tap on the screen, wait a second or two until the device switches to selection mode, then you have to select the word yourself character by character, tap at the book symbol and choose translation. If you would like to look up another word on the same page you have to go through the whole process again. - if one could easily switch from the list of definition dictionaries to the list of translation dictionaries. If a word is not in the definition dictionary I would like to switch directly to a translation dictionary, rather than to have to return to the text, select the word anew and then open the translation dictionary. |
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02-23-2013, 01:58 PM | #456 |
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I would appreciate if the device would optionally show author and title in the carousel instead of book covers. Book covers are rather useless if you are reading several books with similar or identical covers.
I would also like an option to prevent book covers from showing in the library list. |
02-26-2013, 08:04 AM | #457 | |
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- Fit the thumbnail to the cover image, rather than adding bars on the sides. - Cache the covers for books stored on the card! - Show SOME indication of activity between the "5 books on device" home screen and the "5 books including card" screen, so the user can tell the reader is doing something. Flashing the light by the power switch would work... - Allow the user to force the reader to rescan the card for new content. - Let the user choose a "carousel shelf" instead of forcing the five most recent books on there. I may have just bought half a dozen new books, but I'm still reading the one I was on before I synced... - Treat the cover page as white-on-black by default, not black-on-white...or at least allow the user to select that. - Allow series handling, including those that have multiple authors. Star Wars and Star Trek have a lot of those, and the present Star Wars format seems to be "one guy writes books 1/4/7, another 2/5/8, and the third does 3/6/9." - Let the user purge the device's database to remove any entries related to sideloaded books that have been deleted. - Properly detect when a sideloaded book has been changed, instead of treating it as a brand-new book. Especially important for shelves... Last edited by Rev. Bob; 02-26-2013 at 08:22 AM. Reason: New features. |
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02-26-2013, 08:42 AM | #458 |
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This was fixed in firmware 2.3.1 but needs an update to Calibre's Kobo plugin to make it work easily for sideloaded books. The Calibre developers are working on it and it should be out soon.
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02-26-2013, 06:08 PM | #459 |
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What if one doesn't use Calibre, but just loads epubs straight onto the card? (That's one of the things I like about the Kobo; I don't have to grab a cable and wire the device to my computer just to add a book.)
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02-26-2013, 09:32 PM | #460 | |
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For example what would the device be expected to do with a cover like this? http://subterraneanpress.com/store/p..._objects_ebook |
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02-26-2013, 11:58 PM | #461 | |
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02-27-2013, 12:50 AM | #462 | |
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02-27-2013, 05:40 AM | #463 | |
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If your epubs are DRM free, you can edit the titlepage.xhtml to get the cover to display without bars to the side. It's not a Kobo thing, but a coding in the book that makes the images show up with bars. Instead of it just being a picture (which Kobo should be able to show full screen), it's a page with margin settings and such nonsense. I recently even came across a book that had it's cover page with a black background and strangely positioned book cover. Looked ridiculous. I can't find the specific thread that I remember, but this one should be able to help too. EDIT: Oh, never mind. I see you're in a big discussion about this in another thread already Last edited by Mrs_Often; 02-27-2013 at 05:51 AM. |
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