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Originally Posted by DNSB

Hmmm... I don't read that many comic book files but my daughter does and seems to be quite happy with her Kobo as her emergency reader -- she prefers a colour display. Some of her comics are in the 80+MB size. I did have an issue on my desktop before I switched to Win7 where I had to locate and install an USB filter file from AMD to fix an issue with the Kobo disconnecting when I wrote large files to it.

Yes it is possible the file is in some way corrupted, Explorer don't see the drive anymore after this "big" file is transferred.

To note that this is an emergency PC and maybe this Windows XP is in some way "broken"... in the next week(s) I hope to have a new PC with Windows 8 and I'll make more tests.

Regarding the Comics on E-book it is IMHO an unexplored feature yes the B&W is a problem, but the major problem is that the "clouds" are always too little to read. If the strips could be reorganized in a way that, for example, any vignette use a full screen they would be readable!
IMHO the problem is that there no commercials option using the "true" e-book format that is EPUB not an archive...

Originally Posted by DNSB

Dang... I can't attach a kpg.conf file so will paste it in a code block below.

# Kobo Patch Generator config file
# firmware ver. 3.1.0
# (c) 2013 MZ
#

<Patch>
patch_name = `Custom reading footer style`
patch_enable = `yes`
# CSS. Then CSS over zlib. Then CSS over XOR "crypto". Then CSS over XOR+NOT "crypto". Kobo managers, are you wacky ???
#
# Disable footer example
#replace_xor_58 = 13FA550, `ReadingFooter {\n\tmin-height: 70px;\n\tmax-height: 70px;\n\tqproperty-footerMargin: 40;\n}\n\nReadingFooter[deviceCodeName="kraken"], \nReadingFooter[deviceCodeName="phoenix"] {\n\tmin-height: 82px;\n\tmax-height: 82px;\n\tqproperty-footerMargin: 15;\n}\n\nReadingFooter[deviceCodeName="dragon"] {\n\tmin-height: 120px;\n\tmax-height: 120px;\n\tqproperty-footerMargin: 20;\n}\n\n* {\n\tfont-size: 16px;\n}\n\n[deviceCodeName="kraken"], \n[deviceCodeName="phoenix"] {\n\tfont-size: 20px;\n}\n\n[deviceCodeName="dragon"] {\n\tfont-size: 26px;\n}\n\n[localeName="ja_JP"] {\n\tfont-family: A-OTF Gothic MB101 Pr6N;\n}`, `* {\n\theight: 5px;\n\tfont-size: 1px;\n\tcolor: transparent;\n}\n\n\x00`
# Decrease footer example
replace_xor_58 = 13FA550, `ReadingFooter {\n\tmin-height: 70px;\n\tmax-height: 70px;\n\tqproperty-footerMargin: 40;\n}\n\nReadingFooter[deviceCodeName="kraken"], \nReadingFooter[deviceCodeName="phoenix"] {\n\tmin-height: 82px;\n\tmax-height: 82px;\n\tqproperty-footerMargin: 15;\n}\n\nReadingFooter[deviceCodeName="dragon"] {\n\tmin-height: 120px;\n\tmax-height: 120px;\n\tqproperty-footerMargin: 20;\n}\n\n* {\n\tfont-size: 16px;\n}\n\n[deviceCodeName="kraken"], \n[deviceCodeName="phoenix"] {\n\tfont-size: 20px;\n}\n\n[deviceCodeName="dragon"] {\n\tfont-size: 26px;\n}\n\n[localeName="ja_JP"] {\n\tfont-family: A-OTF Gothic MB101 Pr6N;\n}`, `ReadingFooter {\n\tmin-height: 45px;\n\tmax-height: 45px;\n\tqproperty-footerMargin: 20;\n}\n\n* {\n\tfont-size: 26px;\n\tpadding-bottom: 5px;\n}\n\n\x00`
</Patch>

<Patch>
patch_name = `My line spacing values` 
patch_enable = `yes`
# Bypass code-injected values 1.0, 1.2, 1.5, 2.0, 3.0
replace_bytes = 73FA06, 35 F6 BC EB, 00 46 00 46
replace_bytes = 73FA54, 35 F6 94 EB, 00 46 00 46
replace_bytes = 73FA7A, 35 F6 82 EB, 00 46 00 46
replace_bytes = 73FAB0, 35 F6 66 EB, 00 46 00 46
replace_bytes = 73FB0C, 35 F6 38 EB, 00 46 00 46
# Other values for replace
replace_float = 73FB50, 1.05, 0.9
replace_float = 73FB58, 1.07, 0.95
replace_float = 73FB60, 1.1,  1.0
replace_float = 73FB68, 1.35, 1.05
replace_float = 73FB70, 1.7,  1.10
replace_float = 73FB78, 1.8,  1.15
replace_float = 73FB80, 2.2,  1.2
replace_float = 73FB88, 2.4,  1.25
replace_float = 73FB90, 2.6,  1.3
replace_float = 73FB98, 2.8,  1.35
</Patch>

<Patch>
patch_name = `Custom fonts sizes`
patch_enable = `yes`
# Values for replace
replace_int = 1157928, 12, 20
replace_int = 115792C, 14, 21
replace_int = 1157930, 16, 22
replace_int = 1157934, 17, 23
replace_int = 1157938, 18, 24
replace_int = 115793C, 19, 25
replace_int = 1157940, 20, 26
replace_int = 1157944, 21, 27
replace_int = 1157948, 22, 28
replace_int = 115794C, 24, 29
replace_int = 1157950, 25, 30
replace_int = 1157954, 26, 31
replace_int = 1157958, 28, 32
replace_int = 115795C, 32, 33
replace_int = 1157960, 36, 34
replace_int = 1157964, 40, 35
replace_int = 1157968, 44, 36
replace_int = 115796C, 46, 37
replace_int = 1157970, 48, 38
replace_int = 1157974, 50, 39
replace_int = 1157978, 52, 40
replace_int = 115797C, 54, 44
replace_int = 1157980, 56, 42
replace_int = 1157984, 58, 43
</Patch>

<Patch>
patch_name = `Custom left & right margins`
patch_enable = `yes`
# Values for replace
replace_int = 13EF57C, 02, 01
replace_int = 13EF580, 04, 02
replace_int = 13EF584, 06, 03
replace_int = 13EF588, 08, 04
replace_int = 13EF58C, 10, 05
replace_int = 13EF590, 12, 06
replace_int = 13EF594, 14, 07
replace_int = 13EF598, 16, 08
</Patch>

<Patch>
patch_name = `Brightness fine control`
patch_enable = `yes`
replace_int = 90DD08, 10, 01
replace_int = 90DD38, 10, 01
</Patch>

<Patch>
patch_name = `Fix page breaks bug`
patch_enable = `yes`
#replace_bytes = DE6576, E8 D0, E8 E7
#Alternative method
replace_bytes = DE6576, E8 D0, 00 46
</Patch>

<Patch>
patch_name = `Freedom to advanced fonts control`
patch_enable = `yes`
replace_bytes = 98372C, D4 F7 64 E1, E4 F7 54 E5
replace_bytes = ADC554, B3 F6 DC E1, 00 46 00 46
replace_bytes = AE0256, AF F6 5C E3, 00 46 00 46
</Patch>

<Patch>
patch_name = `Search in Library by default`
patch_enable = `yes`
replace_bytes = 9E7BBC, 7E F7 9A E3, 00 46 00 46
replace_bytes = 9E7C08, 7E F7 74 E3, 00 46 00 46
</Patch>

As usual you can modify the various patches but read some of the Patcher forum first. Metazoa has not issued an "official" patch so what you are seeing is what various people have found that works.

Thanks I'll wait to have a "working" PC before try to apply the patch (this would download the file, unmount the drive and brick the device probably*), there is a way to make a backup of the firmware to recover the default settings?

In your opinion there is a risk to brick the device in case of problems or only the books would be shown wrong (well worst that the default it is impossible )?

* The Kobo software not worked to initialize the device it simply blocked itself occupying 100% of CPU! Luckily the Kobo had the possibility to initialize itself using Wi-Fi. Yeah this PC has some problems in the USB stack probably