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TechniSol · 06-09-2013, 04:43 AM

Thanks Kobo developers, for what appears a decent step forward. I'm not sure I'm crazy about the tiles yet, but they do say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and imitating Microsoft may not be a terrible move. I would like to have more control over what's displayed where, but it's not terrible now, just a little disconcerting that the home screen constantly changes. It'd be cool if we could at least lock certain tiles, or type of tiles, in certain places.

Well, I'll give them this much, if reading an epub they did apparently do away with the extra blank line at the page bottom -that helps! However, they might as well add the titles back at the top if they're going to leave the space blank and start the book's text down a line anyway to make room for the top menu -better yet, give us the option of displaying: the title, the chapter title, alternating title/chapter, blank, or full time top menu, at least the space could have some utility. Or get really radical and combine that information and the page number on one line as an option and get rid of the top or bottom space waster and pop it up over the text, but I suppose that will not happen as the bottom line is needed for annotations...

If they're going to leave the space top and bottom, the next logical thing would be to equally divide the spaces above and below the text so the text at top does not touch the top menu bar when it is called up and the page appears balanced.

Now that they've improved the text layout for epubs, they still have an extra line at bottom in the kepub reader.

Now that we have a lighting control that can be varied by as little as one percent by rolling one's finger, it would be nice to see the same intelligence applied to the text size selection to eliminate odd jumps and gaps.

06-09-2013, 04:43 AM	#206
TechniSol GranPohbah-Fezzes r cool! Posts: 1,056 Karma: 3151024 Join Date: Jul 2010 Device: Nook STRs, Kobo Touch, Kobo Glo	Thanks Kobo developers, for what appears a decent step forward. I'm not sure I'm crazy about the tiles yet, but they do say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and imitating Microsoft may not be a terrible move. I would like to have more control over what's displayed where, but it's not terrible now, just a little disconcerting that the home screen constantly changes. It'd be cool if we could at least lock certain tiles, or type of tiles, in certain places. Well, I'll give them this much, if reading an epub they did apparently do away with the extra blank line at the page bottom -that helps! However, they might as well add the titles back at the top if they're going to leave the space blank and start the book's text down a line anyway to make room for the top menu -better yet, give us the option of displaying: the title, the chapter title, alternating title/chapter, blank, or full time top menu, at least the space could have some utility. Or get really radical and combine that information and the page number on one line as an option and get rid of the top or bottom space waster and pop it up over the text, but I suppose that will not happen as the bottom line is needed for annotations... If they're going to leave the space top and bottom, the next logical thing would be to equally divide the spaces above and below the text so the text at top does not touch the top menu bar when it is called up and the page appears balanced. Now that they've improved the text layout for epubs, they still have an extra line at bottom in the kepub reader. Now that we have a lighting control that can be varied by as little as one percent by rolling one's finger, it would be nice to see the same intelligence applied to the text size selection to eliminate odd jumps and gaps.