Thread: How do I get 1.8?
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Old 12-16-2010, 10:42 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by Deerslayer View Post
I would like to post a simple question, once again, hoping to get a straightforward answer from someone in Kobo company itself:

How do I know when 1.8, or whatever, is available for my Kobo (which I bought the first week it came out at Chapters); second part of the question would be, how do I get at said release?


I bought my Kobo in May, I have been pleased with it, have no real problems, but I would like to see improvements (which have already been acted upon with 1.8, from what I can gather). I did the 1.4 upgrade, without problems, but for the life of me I cannot remember where I started!

I have been looking daily at parts of this forum for about 4 months now, as the endless discussions about the next version proceeded.

I use Calibre and ADE and have downloaded free books from the various places, including a public library. I have not purchased any books. I have logged into KOBOBOOKS.COM and I have the kobo.exe on my computer. I signed up. Yet, when I log in, I see nothing to indicate anything about a firmware release - it seems to only be a bookstore thing.
I do not "sync" anything, either, and I am not sure why I would ever care to do so - I download a book or two, read it, delete it, etc.

Instructions on how to get the update for the original kobo has been pretty well documented here.

Taming, who's been helping with the beta testing, has a great post here:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=111310

and if you don't want to use the kobo software, you can follow JCKobo's (he's a project manager with kobo) instructions here.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=111475


Just keep in mind that if you update your firmware, then you will have problems with Calibre until an update is rolled out for that app.
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