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pleochroic · 10-29-2010, 07:57 PM

a kludgy method (if the book is side-loaded, and isn't DRMed or you have eliminated the DRM) is to go into whatever desktop manipulation app you use for the format, bookmark the page you were on, and re-download the book to your kobo. you can then go straight to the bookmarked page via the MENU. stanza can do bookmarks, for example.

i go through every book i buy before downloading it and check whether it's formatted well, and if not, i do it myself -- because as you can now see, paging one click at a time through a book to get to page 250 is incredibly user-unfriendly (and one doesn't only need to do that if the database got scrambled or reset; i sometimes want to go back and re-read a section or look something up). it's amazing how bad some publishers are at formatting; i'd be ashamed to output some of the books for which i pay.

i'm really hoping for a firmware upgrade soon that has a better option for fast-forwarding in a book though. kobo can't expect that their regular readers get intimately familiar with reformatting and conversion software.

10-29-2010, 07:57 PM	#14
pleochroic Member Posts: 21 Karma: 22 Join Date: Jun 2009 Device: kobo, OLPC XO	a kludgy method (if the book is side-loaded, and isn't DRMed or you have eliminated the DRM) is to go into whatever desktop manipulation app you use for the format, bookmark the page you were on, and re-download the book to your kobo. you can then go straight to the bookmarked page via the MENU. stanza can do bookmarks, for example. i go through every book i buy before downloading it and check whether it's formatted well, and if not, i do it myself -- because as you can now see, paging one click at a time through a book to get to page 250 is incredibly user-unfriendly (and one doesn't only need to do that if the database got scrambled or reset; i sometimes want to go back and re-read a section or look something up). it's amazing how bad some publishers are at formatting; i'd be ashamed to output some of the books for which i pay. i'm really hoping for a firmware upgrade soon that has a better option for fast-forwarding in a book though. kobo can't expect that their regular readers get intimately familiar with reformatting and conversion software.