Quote:
Originally Posted by ringerc
Hi all
My Kobo narrowly escaped a high-speed flight into the wall this morning, as I discovered that it'd lost my page in my book overnight. This wouldn't be a big deal, except that (unlike a print book, or any other eReader) there's no "go to page" feature so you have to page glacially through about 1000 page turns to get back to where you were.
This isn't the first time it's done this when it's run out of battery power. It has enough juice left to draw the low-power image on the display, but for some reason doesn't bother updating syncing the SQLite database. It's infuriating.
I'd love to investigate this myself, and/or implement a "go to page" function, but Nickel is closed-source, the plugin api isn't useful, and there are no headers published anyway. I'm stuck with begging Kobo to fix this, and they're not moving particularly quickly, as "go to page" looks like it's been one of the most-requested features since at least mid last year (see: firmware updates thread).
Is this likely to get fixed? It's a pretty dire issue for a dedicated reading device. Either remember my page, or let me remember it and GO TO IT.
|
I just can't believe how many basic features are missing from their fw even after so many updates either. Go to page # being one of my top ones given that some books have LENGTHY chapters, but even with short chapters navigating to a chapter and then page flipping is NOT the answer, goto page # IS!
Bookmarks are my second favorite one: wtf would want to use bookmarks with a freaking book?! WTF?!
WiFi: Why? All it's good for ATM is browsing their "store" with it's UI breakage and cumbersome filtering and access and getting updates, or IOW useless. True general web browsing would not be useful either, but if it's pretty much there why not take the simple step to enable it as it CAN be handy at times...
etc.
Have a list going in the wishlist stickied... lots of basic things missing... very frustrating... at least I was able to get it for $99.99 o.w. it'd've gone straight back... well maybe not as they've released the GPLed source and some other stuff so it might be hackably fun later, but right now Andrtoid tablets are taking up that time for me...