Thread: Kobo H2O - solution to footnotes
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Old 10-29-2015, 10:31 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by Percivale View Post
Is there any easy way to increase the font size? Why is it not practical?
You can set the font size while reading (tap the middle of the screen, tap the two A's icon and choose a font). You can adjust the font size to be comfortable for reading. At the size I use the footnote superscript number is to hard to press. To make it easy to press, I need to increase the size by about 10 levels. But, that isn't good for reading, so I then reduce the font size. All that takes time and probably means losing the exact place I am at.

I don't thin that is practical.
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How do you change the footnote link to cover the word or phrase?
GeoffR's post covers that well. For a paper book, the superscript for a footnote makes some sense. For electronic reading, make the full text the footnote is for the link.
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How to manually convert epubs to kepubs?
By "manually" I meant using calibre to do a conversion. Select the book, press the conversion button and set the options to produce a kepub. The converted file is added to the library and can be sent to the device. You will need to install an extra plugin or two for this to work.

I don't usually recommend this as I think using the KoboTouchExtended to do the conversion during the send is the better way for most people. But, using it usually means you read all books as kepubs. If you only want to read certain books as kepubs, such as those with lots of footnotes or images, then you can convert them manually and send the kepub version.
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Will it be possible to remove the header in the kepub after conversion (Will the patch do it?)?
The pedant in me has to say: The header is not "in the kepub". The header and footer are part of the reader application.

As to removing it, the best way is the full screen reading mode that is built into the firmware. But, that is not officially supported by Kobo and has bugs when reading kepubs. Personally, I don't use it as I like the footer and don't mind the header. And as I tend to read epubs, I don't see the header that much. I don't patch the firmware as none of the changes they do bother me enough to do it.
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