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Old 01-06-2014, 07:56 PM   #13
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Join Date: May 2012
Location: Northern Illinois
Device: Generic Android tablet, Kobo WiFi, Literati, and eBookwise 1150
Well I did check Calibre (version 0.8.38) and it no longer recognizes the Kobo wifi. Totally invisible, though the Linux OS does see it as a mountable external storage device.

Calibre looking at the test case book was inconclusive. It displays some but not all the Italics (others appear with the [_ _] around them, and some bold text has [* *] around it too) and shows chapter headings all caps and right justified the way the upgraded Kobo does. This book, being something that was apparently passed through OCR and incompletely proofed and formatted afterward, is probably not a good evaluation tool. I'll have to look at a professionally produced title instead.

Downloaded the firmware but after looking for explicit instructions on how to install it manually and finding only vague generalities, decided not to mess with it.

Likewise, cloning the internal SD memory from the second Kobo doesn't seem like a good option. Opening the cases appears to be questionable and as with the firmward upgrade, the available information is vague and doesn't feel comfortable to me.

I can afford to do a factory reset and see if the device can properly update itself from there, since all my books are backed up elsewhere. I will probably try that once I get back to work where there is fast wifi and when I have time to mess with it.

Overall, this reminds me of similar bad experiences with the upgrade for the Literati firmware, which also came from Kobo and failed repeatedly to complete the upgrade properly. I did finally get it to work, but mostly by sheer luck and certainly not through any reasonable support from Kobo or Sharper Image.

In the long run I'm probably going to forget these dedicated and shifty devices and get an Android tablet that can run reader software instead.

Thanks for your advice, in any case. I'll post here after I try the factory reset and upgrade again method.
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