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Old 07-09-2013, 03:10 AM   #469
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Originally Posted by Ansileran View Post
I didn't check the firmware version, but it was probably the same. I mean, if they couldn't be bothered to turn on the wifi and load a fr-en dictionary for the demo, I doubt they went through the trouble of connecting it to a computer...
Shops like that are very annoying. The last time I was in a shop that has Kobo devices on display, they all had the flat batteries.
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I ended up getting an Aura anyway yesterday. Chinese is not supported natively at all, I probably need to install Chinese fonts first so that I don't get squares instead of characters (my PRS-505 displays "?" ). Though I'm not sure why... The fonts were included in the epub I tried...
The firmware is a bit picky about the names of fonts. There is a bit of discussion about it. Start with https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=204363. That is mainly talking about sideloaded fonts, but from memory the same rules apply to embedded fonts.
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Oh, and again, it's damn fast! I tried a very big ebook (bible in Chinese ~7000 pages) and it opened almost instantly. When I tried it on the PRS-505, I thought something had gone wrong because it took around 30s to open the file
That is impressive. I think it would have been more impressive if the pages had displayed characters rather than a pile of squares
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