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Originally Posted by Katsunami
You are using an undocumented, experimental, and buggy feature, by patching the device with undocumented and unofficial code. That is fine, and if it works, so much the better. For most people, that is not a trivial matter however, because it's easy enough to accidentally mix up files and flash either the wrong firmware or use the wrong patch if you don't know what you're doing exactly.
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If you're enabling the full screen feature, you really know enough to be able to patch it without issue. There is -far- too much fear mongering over patching. Yes things can go wrong. But if you follow the instructions you'll come out the other side unscathed.
The biggest issues are ensuring your reader is on the right firmware, and that you've downloaded the right firmware to put in the 'source' directory for the patch. You can check the firmware of your device from the device, and there is a stickied post in the dev forum which breaks down which firmware is for which series of devices and the devices in that series.
After that it's literally editing a document in either Text Edit (Mac), or Notepad++ (Windows), and changing 'no' to 'yes' or the reverse.
The second 'tricky' bit only applies to Mac/Unix/Linux systems since you'll be using a terminal to do it. Even then on Mac it's still as easy as drag/drop.
With Windows it's just drag/drop on to a batch file. I've not done this as I patch on a Mac.
Yes it's undocumented, as are the patches, but as you're discovering the alternative methods of obtaining more text per page is filled with issues. I rather doubt any amount of tinkering with the CSS will resolve those issues.
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The chapter progress graph, reading time, reading time for the next chapter and total book reading time do NOT work when using EPUBs. The icon is gone. The only thing you can get is a progress by page number by opening the Table of Contents icon in the bottom menu. The extra functionality only works when using KEPUB, regardless of using full screen mode or not.
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My mistake, I thought you were talking about KEPUBs, since the extra stats have either never been there for epubs or have been gone for numerous firmware releases regardless of turning on or off the full screen feature. Kobo did enable it for sideloaded KEPUBs awhile back.