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AHarbin · 01-15-2011, 03:24 PM

I dont know what the new version does but it did not work properly for me. The preloaded books were fine and in the new format for dictionary use. I updated from 1.4 without problems seemingly but all of my other KOBO books were scrambled (chapters repeated and pages repeated). I resynced twice, loaded the new firmware twice by forcing on and reloaded desktop software but nothing worked. ADE still was working.

I contacted KOBO help online and got a response to factory reset within two days. This did work. I resynced my KOBO (ADE DRM) purchased books. re authorized the reader on ADE, loaded other books purchased through Sony (ADE DRM) and also some epubs (no DRM) and purchased a new KOBO book. All seems to be working now. Having to do a factory reset to load new firmware is a real pain even if the upgrade process is an improvement over 1.4

01-15-2011, 03:24 PM	#146
AHarbin Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Cambridge Ontario Canada Device: KOBO ereader	Software for Original Reader is Now 1.8.3 I dont know what the new version does but it did not work properly for me. The preloaded books were fine and in the new format for dictionary use. I updated from 1.4 without problems seemingly but all of my other KOBO books were scrambled (chapters repeated and pages repeated). I resynced twice, loaded the new firmware twice by forcing on and reloaded desktop software but nothing worked. ADE still was working. I contacted KOBO help online and got a response to factory reset within two days. This did work. I resynced my KOBO (ADE DRM) purchased books. re authorized the reader on ADE, loaded other books purchased through Sony (ADE DRM) and also some epubs (no DRM) and purchased a new KOBO book. All seems to be working now. Having to do a factory reset to load new firmware is a real pain even if the upgrade process is an improvement over 1.4