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beedaddy · 06-09-2015, 03:32 AM

After some time I'm back in the Kobo universe, now with the Glo HD.

But it didn't take long to notice some odd things with their firmware (3.15.0).

First, while reading the German newspaper "Die Zeit" (epub) on the Kobo, I noticed that the Glo HD didn't do any hyphenation. The text was left-aligned. For me, this is odd. Any other eReaders I've used so far use hyphenation in that case.

Then, I tried to change the text-orientation to "justify". This was not possible. It just stayed left-aligned. I had to comment out the line in the CSS:

Code:

div.article {
    margin-left: 1em;
    margin-right: 1em;
    /*text-align: left;*/
}

After that, I was able to change the text orientation. And using justify, the device even uses hyphenation.

But, there are quite a lot eBooks (again, epub!) with this problem and some of them with DRM...

Since these problems don't occur on other EPUB-based-eReaders (like the Tolino Vision), I guess this is not an Adobe SDK-related problem. So... Kobo could fix it, right?

06-09-2015, 03:32 AM	#624
beedaddy Addict Posts: 205 Karma: 135428 Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Germany (south-west) Device: Kobo Libra 2 & Clara 2E, Tolino shine 5th Gen, Kindle PW6	After some time I'm back in the Kobo universe, now with the Glo HD. But it didn't take long to notice some odd things with their firmware (3.15.0). First, while reading the German newspaper "Die Zeit" (epub) on the Kobo, I noticed that the Glo HD didn't do any hyphenation. The text was left-aligned. For me, this is odd. Any other eReaders I've used so far use hyphenation in that case. Then, I tried to change the text-orientation to "justify". This was not possible. It just stayed left-aligned. I had to comment out the line in the CSS: Code: div.article { margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; /text-align: left;/ } After that, I was able to change the text orientation. And using justify, the device even uses hyphenation. But, there are quite a lot eBooks (again, epub!) with this problem and some of them with DRM... Since these problems don't occur on other EPUB-based-eReaders (like the Tolino Vision), I guess this is not an Adobe SDK-related problem. So... Kobo could fix it, right? Last edited by beedaddy; 06-09-2015 at 03:46 AM.