[Katsunami]

Originally Posted by arspr

1. Book stats (I really don't care) only work with "official" Kepubs. It used to work with sideloaded Kepubs but they don't anymore. It's not clear if it is some kind of bug or if Kobo has done it on purpose... In some places (home screen, book list) you get a % of your full book.

Thanks. So no book statistics.

Is it possible to disable any unused features, reading life, twitter, facebook, etc?

As I said in my post above, the time to read is the only "gimmick" I actually care somewhat about. All the rest of the functionality is wasted on me, and I'd like to disable it.

2. I don't follow you. Default page numbering in Kepubs are TRUE number of page turns per chapter (so if you change font size, the total number of pages changes. The downsize is that you only know the pages you have in your current chapter). Nevertheless you can change that behaviour to a more or less similar whole book fake number similar to the epub system through KoboTouch Extended driver for Calibre. (A must have).

Count Pages in Calibre can generate page numbers based on the number of characters per page. The Kindle driver can upload those pagenumbers to the Kindle, for each book; the number of pages does not change based on font size.

What algorithm does the Kobo Touch Extended driver use; do you know this?

3. Yes. The real problem with Kobos is that their interface wastes a lot of space in the header (which is present only in kepubs) and in the footer (which is also present in epubs). So, you can freely change font size, margins, embedded or forced font type, or whatever but there's always a lot of wasted room in the bottom and top of the screen. The Aura HD screen is wider and has some more resolution (dpi) than Paperwhite but it doesn't really use that advantage because that of its GUI design... (And I suppose this issue is worse in other models as they have the same GUI but a smaller screen).

To be honest, I really like the KEPUB layout as shown above. It has 33 lines by 67 characters, which is WAY more than I can fit on the Kindle, even despite the big margins around the text.

In fact I don't think that buying a Aura HD (which a bigger price tag) makes a lot of sense if you come from a PW1... (which also has a more or less HD display).

The one thing that really irks me on the Kindle is the limited selection fonts. The only ones I like are Baskerville (always too small or too large), and Palatino (mostly OK).

Also, looking at the layout of the Aura HD using KEPUB's as displayed above, makes it look better and much less cramped than the Kindle, probably BECAUSE of the larger margins while still fitting in more text.