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Forum: Deals and Resources (No Self-Promotion or Affiliate Links) 11-13-2013, 05:25 PM
Replies: 17,076
Views: 4,757,555
Posted By GvilleBridge
yournext487

yournext487 worked just now in US for Bloomsbury book.
Forum: Deals and Resources (No Self-Promotion or Affiliate Links) 10-16-2013, 04:09 PM
Replies: 17,076
Views: 4,757,555
Posted By GvilleBridge
oct50 just worked for me with a New York Review...

oct50 just worked for me with a New York Review Book, purchased in US.
Forum: Deals and Resources (No Self-Promotion or Affiliate Links) 01-31-2013, 09:50 PM
Replies: 17,076
Views: 4,757,555
Posted By GvilleBridge
VoucherCodes40 just worked for me in the US.

VoucherCodes40 just worked for me in the US.
Forum: Kobo Reader 10-22-2012, 05:01 PM
Replies: 55
Views: 17,882
Posted By GvilleBridge
I thought Good Ereader's video comparison review...

I thought Good Ereader's video comparison review of the Kobo Glo vs. the Kindle Paperwhite and (the oldest model) Nook Simple Touch with Glowlight was very fair. I think it is significant that the...
Forum: Kobo Reader 10-20-2012, 04:03 AM
Replies: 137
Views: 33,791
Posted By GvilleBridge
Got 2.1.5 (r43939 10/12/12) on my KT here in...

Got 2.1.5 (r43939 10/12/12) on my KT here in Calif. at 4:30pm PDT Fri. Desktop at first just sync'd books etc. but I hit refresh and it downloaded the update quickly and then rebooted quickly.

I...
Forum: Kobo Reader 10-05-2012, 07:52 PM
Replies: 165
Views: 50,018
Posted By GvilleBridge
Any opinion on 2.1.4's new and improved shelving?...

Any opinion on 2.1.4's new and improved shelving? And BTW any way to use Calibre to designate shelves? 2.0's shelving was tedious to the extreme as it was one shelf at a time with repeated stepping...
Forum: Kobo Reader 09-27-2012, 03:24 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 4,570
Posted By GvilleBridge
Unhappy Is the Kobo Touch dead?

It's been three months since 2.0 and where's 2.1 or better? The arrival of the three new Kobos makes me wonder if the Kobo Touch and, in fact, the original two models are dying or already dead. ...
Forum: Kobo Reader 09-14-2012, 02:24 AM
Replies: 68
Views: 22,479
Posted By GvilleBridge
And in relation to the thread at...

And in relation to the thread at https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=190333 I wonder if the Kobo folk, including beta-testers, have at least one of each production model ereader for...
Forum: Kobo Reader 09-10-2012, 12:56 AM
Replies: 172
Views: 48,823
Posted By GvilleBridge
Picking one of the posts in this thread at...

Picking one of the posts in this thread at random:


I wonder why the Kobo user community should really, seriously have to be dealing with this kind of inside-the-gadget for something that costs...
Forum: Kobo Reader 09-08-2012, 04:40 AM
Replies: 54
Views: 15,520
Posted By GvilleBridge
To pick up from a two-month-old problem of...

To pick up from a two-month-old problem of Calibre not recognizing my KT when 2.0 was installed and I got that scary warning (see post #1), I'd like to report that Calibre now does, but no thanks to...
Forum: Kobo Reader 09-08-2012, 01:05 AM
Replies: 172
Views: 48,823
Posted By GvilleBridge
OMG! Calibre sees my KT with 2.0.0. I checked...

OMG! Calibre sees my KT with 2.0.0. I checked Preferences/Plugins/Device Interface Plugins and found that the Very One I thought I had selected--the Kobo plugin--was grayed-out, so I reversed that. ...
Forum: Kobo Reader 09-07-2012, 10:50 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 4,218
Posted By GvilleBridge
Anybody experiencing problems with Kobo Desktop...

Anybody experiencing problems with Kobo Desktop 3.1? Yesterday I used it for the first time in a couple weeks to see if there was any firmware-updating activity. It crashed twice, so I redownloaded...
Forum: Kobo Reader 09-07-2012, 10:03 PM
Replies: 172
Views: 48,823
Posted By GvilleBridge
Dunno how Murg finds out all that good stuff in...

Dunno how Murg finds out all that good stuff in the Windows sub-sub-basement, but I followed the directions and got this about my KT:
USBSTOR\DISK&VEN_KOBO&PROD_EREADER&REV_0326\KG3170602871A&0...
Forum: Kobo Reader 09-07-2012, 09:54 PM
Replies: 172
Views: 48,823
Posted By GvilleBridge
I always update to the very latest Calibre, most...

I always update to the very latest Calibre, most recently last night, so it's 0.8.68, with the Kobo Device Interface plugin installed. Calibre first went bananas the very day that I installed...
Forum: Kobo Reader 09-07-2012, 08:10 PM
Replies: 172
Views: 48,823
Posted By GvilleBridge
a) Windows recognizes my KT but Calibre, even in...

a) Windows recognizes my KT but Calibre, even in debug mode, doesn't, so it doesn't report device ID and version number. Is device ID and version no. available elsewhere?

b) I bought the KT at a...
Forum: Nook Color & Nook Tablet 08-28-2012, 12:58 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 1,889
Posted By GvilleBridge
Thanks for that. I'll try it out. Meanwhile, on...

Thanks for that. I'll try it out. Meanwhile, on the type-size problem, I had a duh-am-I-a-newbie moment when I was reading about the Apple-Samsung decision: "pinch and zoom." Hey, it works...but...
Forum: Nook Color & Nook Tablet 08-27-2012, 09:41 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 1,889
Posted By GvilleBridge
Nook Tab/Android newbie has two basic questions

I'm a Kobo Touch user (feeling misused these days) but decided anyway to get a color LCD tablet to supplement eInk reading. I got a Nook Tablet (NT) 16GB, refurbed, and installed an N2A Card to make...
Forum: Deals and Resources (No Self-Promotion or Affiliate Links) 08-23-2012, 04:55 AM
Replies: 17,076
Views: 4,757,555
Posted By GvilleBridge
In US just now these 4 did not work on a UChicago...

In US just now these 4 did not work on a UChicago ebook:
thankyou40 (40% off)
c4auto45 (45% off)
anniversary20 (20% off)
ac4auto45 (45% off)
though I might have used the last one on a previous...
Forum: Kobo Reader 08-23-2012, 03:44 AM
Replies: 1,347
Views: 314,908
Posted By GvilleBridge
JCSullivan concluded: Yes, we need not...

JCSullivan concluded:


Yes, we need not have only one gadget. I got a good deal on a refurbished Nook Tablet at Overstock, not as a replacement for my KT as an eInk reader but as a supplement...
Forum: Kobo Reader 08-09-2012, 04:45 AM
Replies: 1,347
Views: 314,908
Posted By GvilleBridge
Well, I can reiterate too: there is a problem...

Well, I can reiterate too: there is a problem with current Calibre versions and the KT firmware 2.0.0. Ever since I installed 2.0.0 (and reinstalled, and reset, and reinstalled, ad nauseam), and...
Forum: Kobo Reader 07-25-2012, 09:49 PM
Replies: 51
Views: 8,923
Posted By GvilleBridge
"Poor poor aching mackerel"

I examined some of the complaints of first Japanese buyers of the KT, but it is very difficult to tell exactly what the problems were and what Rakuten is planning, largely because of the strangeness...
Forum: Deals and Resources (No Self-Promotion or Affiliate Links) 07-19-2012, 04:31 AM
Replies: 17,076
Views: 4,757,555
Posted By GvilleBridge
I used these two in the last two days, buying in...

I used these two in the last two days, buying in the US:
c4auto40 (40% off)
ac4auto45 (45% off)
Both for W.W. Norton books.

Wunderbar!
Forum: Kobo Reader 07-18-2012, 11:31 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 6,750
Posted By GvilleBridge
As you like it.

As you like it.
Forum: Kobo Reader 07-18-2012, 10:52 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 6,750
Posted By GvilleBridge
Fontenoy, your new KT is in trouble and you will...

Fontenoy, your new KT is in trouble and you will find plenty of sympathy in being unhappy with Kobo right now. After you read some of the flood of posts in this forum over the last 8 days,...
Forum: Kobo Reader 07-18-2012, 05:20 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 1,987
Posted By GvilleBridge
Again, I say there is more discussion of the...

Again, I say there is more discussion of the hyphenation issue at https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=184373&page=34 (that's only 4 pages ago in that main 2.0 thread), touching on many...
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