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tigran · 10-02-2014, 03:47 PM

Of the two ways to use magnetic/sleep cover with Kobo Start Menu (namely: CoolReader vs Koreader) I would recommend CoolReader, because Koreader often crashes on suspend (happened with two different djvu files for me) and so it would return back to main menu of Kobo Start Menu and remain awake, but you will only discover it when you next open the cover and there is a good chance that you will be in some other menu because the touchscreen would interpret the pressure on the edges of the cover as touches. Ok, it is extremely unlikely that you will end up in the terminal with the command "rm -rf /" typed and followed by ENTER, but still it is dangerous. (btw, I noticed that / is mounted rw on Kobo --- amazing, how it didn't get corrupted yet ...)

But CoolReader so far never crashed for me on suspend, so when I pause reading with Koreader I just touch Home button and return to Kobo Start Menu and then start CoolReader and close the cover. This is quite stable and takes only a couple of seconds.

The alternative is to Power Down and then boot up the device again, but this takes slightly longer.

10-02-2014, 03:47 PM	#517
tigran Zealot Posts: 140 Karma: 23528 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: London Device: Kobo Aura One,HD,H2O,Touch,Mini,Kindle 3+DXG,Nook Simple Touch	Of the two ways to use magnetic/sleep cover with Kobo Start Menu (namely: CoolReader vs Koreader) I would recommend CoolReader, because Koreader often crashes on suspend (happened with two different djvu files for me) and so it would return back to main menu of Kobo Start Menu and remain awake, but you will only discover it when you next open the cover and there is a good chance that you will be in some other menu because the touchscreen would interpret the pressure on the edges of the cover as touches. Ok, it is extremely unlikely that you will end up in the terminal with the command "rm -rf /" typed and followed by ENTER, but still it is dangerous. (btw, I noticed that / is mounted rw on Kobo --- amazing, how it didn't get corrupted yet ...) But CoolReader so far never crashed for me on suspend, so when I pause reading with Koreader I just touch Home button and return to Kobo Start Menu and then start CoolReader and close the cover. This is quite stable and takes only a couple of seconds. The alternative is to Power Down and then boot up the device again, but this takes slightly longer. Last edited by tigran; 10-02-2014 at 03:49 PM.