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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
People make mistakes, power outages happen inconveniently, and some just want to go where no one has ever trod before 
I have never managed to brick my Kobos no matter how hard I tried. They do behave in some strange and unexpected ways at times, for the Aura straight out of the box. It would freeze on opening after loading 549 books to the SD card and do this repeatedly, until I took out the card connected it to the computer, got it to boot, and put in the card again. This was in April, and it still does this occasionally.
Of course it is my fault for daring to use an SD card and put 1/60th of the advertised capacity for books on it, but I was a tad naïve at the time. There was a slot so I put a card in it. There was room for 30,000 of books so I put 549 on it. Mea Culpa. |
I'm tempted to ask how many of those books were able to go through epubcheck and FlightCrew without error? A couple of months back, when I was playing with storing more ebooks on my Aura, I added 11,234 ebooks to bring the total on the SD card up to 13,000. Copying the books over took time, the processing took quite a while but they all added without problems. Opening, searching, etc. seemed as fast as when I have my normal ~1750 books on the SD card. The ebooks came from Gutenberg and were all checked prior to being sideloaded -- command lines are still great for some purposes.
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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
And for those intrepid souls, who dismantle their devices or install 3rd party firmware on it, I gotta admire their guts. I've rooted an older tablet or two to bring them up to a useable level, and have a background in circuit board design and prototype building, but so far lack the courage and energy to take apart my Kobos
It has been my overall experience that people who do this as well as those that root their devices do it aware of the pitfalls. The may ask for help, but not in a whining fashion, and often provide interesting and at least to me valuable information.
Casting blame on them is tantamount to casting blame on Davidfor or PeterT for all of the great work that they have done in making the Kobo a lot more user friendly and some have even done that. |
Well, if they didn't tempt us, we wouldn't brick our Kobos.
On a more serious note, anyone who starts experimenting without having made a backup copy of the internal SD card to allow returning to a known good condition would let someone else pack her/his parachute.
Regards,
David