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Originally Posted by meeera
Perhaps if you could be clearer on what customisation you want that you couldn't find on the AuraHD, and what you didn't like about Collections handling, and how you'd like Collections to be handled, we could be better placed to help?
There are a pile of hacks and tweaks for the Kobos that may or may not fit your wants and needs.
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No problems. Thanks for the suggestions.
1. I want to be able to use the thing single handed, left or right hand. Very difficult to do in my case. So, I need a tap on the bottom of the left side to go forward, a tap on the bottom of the right side to go forward. Don't care about backwards - I can swipe if I want to do that. Or maybe tap top left of screen for back. Swiping works, but pretty awkward (for me) to do. Also want to remove the huge bottom margin and put in a status bar with book title, page number and clock. Or at the top, but I would like this info somewhere on the screen.
2. Collections. I want to organise my books by author_sort[1]/author_sort/series/ series_no-title.epub. ie I want a list of collections that is basically all the letters A-Z. Then inside those collections I want the authors. ie in 'C', I want all the authors that have a surname starting with 'C'. In each author collection I want each Series to be a collection. Some authors have hundreds of books and a large number of series. There is really no other way to do it if you have a large number of books.
What I am doing at the moment is I have collections on author_sort. Then I get Calibre to rename the title to series - series_no - title.epub. This works after a fashion in that I can get to the next book in a series fairly easily. But some authors can have a hundred books - just imagine the time it takes scrolling through all those screens!
I tried various combinations of collections - 'author_sort,series', for example. Simply too many collections! I don't mind dropping out the A-Z collections, but keeping Authors and Series organised seems difficult.
My current Pocketbook has about 3,000 books on it. My new one I will try to keep a lot cleaner, but it will be around 1,000.
I looked through the developer forum, but to be frank it seemed to relate to older models.
Edit: BTW - the Pocketbook models do every one of these things, which is why I mention them. My current ereader does all that I list above - I want my new one to do at least as much - but better!