Hey everyone. I got my Kobo yesterday and was loving playing around with it, and setting it up. However, as is my nature I must push the boundaries that they've set up.
I was looking at the files on the Kobo device when I came across this little thing /.kobo/Kobo/Kobo eReader.conf
This file is a little configuration file, that of all things stores the web pages used for the Kobo store. In plain text of all things!
Well being curious I just edited each of them to en.wikipedia.org and unplugged my Kobo (BACKUP FIRST!).
Sure enough, when I tried to load the kobo store, it instead pulled up Wikipedia. I can now browse around, and it seems to be working pretty well. It's not great because of the lack of controls on the device, and scrolling to the link you want is a bit of a pain, but it works!
I'm not sure which of the links I changed were the necessary ones, and if there's more to do, but I thought I would share this find anyways, and let other people play around with it.
One note, I think the Kobo PC Software overwrote my changes, so make sure you don't load it up after making your changes.
Best of luck, and report back if you find anything interesting!
EDIT 2: I discovered mobile.wikipedia.org now. It's much easier to use and works great on the kobo. However, the Kobo automatically redirects the url to /home.html which mobile.wikipedia.org doesn't like. So I've set up my home webserver to redirect that page to mobile.wikipedia. If you feel like trying it out yourself feel free to point your Kobo to
removed and see if you like what you get.
Edit 3: I've removed the link to my home server as it's no longer set up for this. However, without testing it yet, I believe if you just add a question mark to the end of the URL it should work, or you could set up a page somewhere else that does this. Mine in the end was just two simple links to mobile.wikipedia.org and m.xkcd.com
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