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DNSB · 08-01-2012, 01:59 PM

Just a few comments on the cover bug in the 2.x.x firmware.

When I first updated to 2.0.2, I thought the bug was gone. Now what I'm seeing is the first time I open a book from the carousel or the library (directly or using search) and let the KT go to sleep, I get the previous book cover. For books selected from the carousel, subsequent sleep states show the correct book cover. For books selected from the library, subsequent sleep states show a text screen with the book title and the book type (e.g. Bahzell 04 - War Maid's Choice with a line underneath reading EPUB or Kobo EPUB). If I wake my KT up and then hit the home button, I see the current book in the largest carousel image with the text as shown on the sleep screen which promptly switches to the cover graphic. Selecting the book now gives the correct cover image as the sleep screen.

It appears that the attempt to speed things up by delaying reading cover graphics when a book is being processed needs a bit more work though it does save a good chunk of space on the on-board storage.

I'm also still seeing the need to delete a book from the KT using it's menus before I can edit the book and copy it back to the KT. Even the most minor change seems to trigger a reset when trying to open a book -- editing the book title to include a series name/number). A major change on one book (Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men on the Bummel) where I replaced the cover image, redid the chapter breaks, changed the image alignment and generated a TOC caused a crash where I had to do a restore to get my KT working again. Admittedly, I did this out of curiosity as to what a fairly major change in a book would do so was expecting a crash and burn but not the extent to which it happened.

08-01-2012, 01:59 PM	#780
DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 47,084 Karma: 169815798 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	Just a few comments on the cover bug in the 2.x.x firmware. When I first updated to 2.0.2, I thought the bug was gone. Now what I'm seeing is the first time I open a book from the carousel or the library (directly or using search) and let the KT go to sleep, I get the previous book cover. For books selected from the carousel, subsequent sleep states show the correct book cover. For books selected from the library, subsequent sleep states show a text screen with the book title and the book type (e.g. Bahzell 04 - War Maid's Choice with a line underneath reading EPUB or Kobo EPUB). If I wake my KT up and then hit the home button, I see the current book in the largest carousel image with the text as shown on the sleep screen which promptly switches to the cover graphic. Selecting the book now gives the correct cover image as the sleep screen. It appears that the attempt to speed things up by delaying reading cover graphics when a book is being processed needs a bit more work though it does save a good chunk of space on the on-board storage. I'm also still seeing the need to delete a book from the KT using it's menus before I can edit the book and copy it back to the KT. Even the most minor change seems to trigger a reset when trying to open a book -- editing the book title to include a series name/number). A major change on one book (Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men on the Bummel) where I replaced the cover image, redid the chapter breaks, changed the image alignment and generated a TOC caused a crash where I had to do a restore to get my KT working again. Admittedly, I did this out of curiosity as to what a fairly major change in a book would do so was expecting a crash and burn but not the extent to which it happened.