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Old 08-14-2015, 12:41 AM   #74
davidfor
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Originally Posted by arspr View Post
Yes a pretty damn stupid idea. But more over a HORRIBLY tweaked and tested feature. As I said, I really don't know what Q&A section in Kobo does.
Complain about all those users there using their devices in new and unusual ways?
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You just cannot launch a feature which chokes within the common, normal usage of the device.
Can you point me to the definition of "normal usage"? Reading the type of PDF that causes sickel to kick in when generating the cover image is probably a fairly unusual action. It is for me. I have them on my device but only because someone here complained about something and I loaded some large and complicated files to see what happened.
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f you do you are plainly stupid and you deserve bankruptcy ASAP. Period. No excuses. You should revert this feature in one day at most with a fast hotfix FW release and publicly apologize about it in half one.

For the time being, we can live because of the de-sickel patch...



Another example I think I've found (I'm 95% sure but not 100%). Go to Language and tick the new dictionaries you get. Press Save and wait till the device download them. Voilą, after it finishes downloading, you get a sickel reboot. And after it, my Japanese dictionary is 89.6 Mb big!!! Is it normal? (I've tried syncing and nothing changes). (I really don't care as I don't read in Japanese, but I don't like it anyway).
Yes,as of 3.16.10, Kobo is using different Japanese dictionaries. They are much bigger. Hopefully, that means a lot more words with better definitions for those who need them. But, for the rest of us, we just don't bother downloading them as that would be a silly waste of space.
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