Thread: Kobo future firmware feature request thread
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Old 02-11-2017, 05:52 AM   #1424
davidfor
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Originally Posted by egoat View Post
I don't want to do any hacks, I'm sure they work but once I done one I'd want another and another until I possibly tweak with something I shouldn't have. The reason I want this that when I put some huge amount of files I catalog them inside kobo which only happened once, otherwise it's not that big of a deal really.
With that description, use calibre. Do all your cataloguing there. And then configure the driver to create the collections you want when sending the books to the device.

As to the autoshelf hack, it is very safe and seems to work well. I don't use it, as I use calibre for equivalent function.
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I meant it as an option, I know it's not so hard to access your collections but what's the point of seeing them on the main screen only to finish some stuff and lose them again. What'd be better if you could lock certain things and they'd added on the certain spots in the row, you could see all your collection folders at once. The folder clickable things are small too so you can possibly fill one row with 8-9 of them and you'd keep the other 2 rows as static if you want.
Being able to lock a tile on the screen could be handy. But, I tend to dismiss tiles I'm not going to use again so that the tiles that remain are more useful.
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Oh yeah, that works great, I didn't know that was there so my mistake. Still learning about the device. So far it didn't even go down on 50% battery.
My habit is to explore any new device I get. And I look at everything again with each new firmware version. And as you are a new Kobo user, I posted the UI standards some time ago. It might give you a hint of what can be done.
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Which reminds me of the necessity of that custom sleep screen, I put bunch of old gravure illustrations and paintings together to see how they'd look on the screen and they looked great, also when I checked I saw some other people requesting that too, I hope they'll make it available.
It has been a popular request, but Kobo don't seem to be interested. If you do want to display an image as the sleep screen, you can open the image before putting the device to sleep. It does mean you have to close the current book, but it depends on what you are after.
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