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Originally Posted by jackie_w
"Just works" is a very subjective statement. Thousands of MR members have felt the need to jailbreak their Kindles, which is a pretty big patch/kludge. Thousands more lament the inability to find a font or a font-size which is "just right" for them. Or perhaps that they can't automatically align their Kindle Collections with their calibre Collections ... etc ... etc. The list of what some MR members want that their Kindle won't do out-of-the-box is quite long.
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It's not really that subjective.
To a reasonable person 'just works' means it does what it says it will do.
Randomly dropping dictionaries and fonts, running the battery down whilst inactive, failing to honour indentation, and having a keyboard where you have to press well to the left of what yo want to get it to register correctly is certainly at odds with that definition.
Not happening to find any font size 'perfect' for themselves (unless the device is advertised as having pseudo-infinitely variable font size) isn't. Neither is working faultlessly with software with which it is not advertised as being compatible.
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If you're seeing that problem in kepubs but not standard epubs, that's probably a problem with the font files you've sideloaded not the Kobo firmware. It's fixable but, unfortunately for you, not without editing the misbehaving font files. More kludging I'm afraid.
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It worked faultlessly with the first two book I read after installation. Then it stopped working.
All the books were kepubs.
BTW, Font files do not 'behave'. They are static.
IF (and it's a very big if) a font file is faulty the normal result would be no display or faulty rendering. They would not get substituted (unless they were so broken that the software did not recognise the header).
Even a faulty font file would hardly explain why the same book would display the font at one time and not another.
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If your Kindles suit you so well why on earth are you persisting with the Kobo, just return it and get your money back.
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No thanks. I rather like it.
That does not mean I can't try and get answers to problems I'm having with it. And it does not mean I can't complain about the release of shoddy firmware.
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Were you expecting the AuraOne to be "just like a Kindle but with a big screen" or something?
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Well, duh, yes.
In that I expected it to do what it is supposed to do according to the specifications, and behaving in a consistent and correct manner is one of those things.
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if When you change brand it's to be expected that "you win a few and you lose a few".
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Quite.
And I was prepared for it to be bigger, not fit my case, heavier, have slightly shorter battery life, have an inferior dictionary, and be of a marginally lower build quality. I was quite happy to trade those disadvantages for the bigger screen.
What I wasn't expecting was the list of bugs mentioned above.