[davidfor]

Originally Posted by Mrs_Often

Firmware: There seem to be some bugs (or I messed things up, I will have to factory reset and see if they're still there):

• Changing light percentage (sliding finger up/down the left side of the screen) shows the percentage in the top margin. This should go away (and be replaced with book title if reading real Kepub) once I start reading again, but it doesn't. It just stays there however many pages I turn... (this was fixed after a restart)

I see this on my Glo HD. But, it is cleared the next time I do something to update the top of the screen. Tapping the screen to display the menus is enough to do this.

• There seem to be two books "anchored" to first and second position on the home screen. The book cover of the first book thus always shows up on screen in sleep mode, even if it was not the last book I opened/read. Third and fourth position is adjusted properly when I open/read new books... It's weird because I haven't read the books stuck on first and second place in months (years?) so the "last read date" can't be an issue This wasn't fixed after restart, restoring to original config file or after repairing my account.

Are these books also first in the library list when sorted by "Recent"? Are they purchased books? And what happens if you actually open them and then open something else?

I had this happen to me once. I somehow set the date a year ahead and was reading a purchased book. I fixed the date before I finished the date. After that, every time the device synced, the reading status for that book from the last sync before fixing the date was downloaded to the device. So, it stayed in the first place at 33% read. In the end, I had to delete the book to the archive to prevent it syncing. A year later, I restored it and marked it as read.

So, check the date. Opening and closing the books might be enough to sort it out. Or marking the books as finished will remove them from the home screen.

I like the new-ish fast page progression thing too. Works well. Thank you davidfor for pointing out you can change the page flipping speed by moving your finger across the device! I wouldn't have figured that out on my own I don't think. It's a little tricky, because if I start flipping pages forward and slow the speed down by moving my finger to the left, I move my finger over where the page number is displayed so I can't see what page(s) I'm at/moving through, and if I move my finger diagonally left/up so I can still see the page number, the flipping stops because I'm not touching the bottom of the screen any more. But I suppose, if I know what page I'm wanting to go to I can just type that in in the "go to page" place instead of doing the flipping. So I'm moaning about nonsense.

This went through a lot of beta testing. Kobo tried various ways and positions for starting this and using it. The final method is by far the best.

I've no idea what I'm talking about, but could this have anything to do with the new "Large Print Mode"? It's new in the beta features (or at least, it's the first time I've seen it, I don't know if it's new to the device, the firmware or to earlier firmware/device where I wasn't paying attention).

The "Large Print Mode" was added to the firmware some time last year.

Oh, that's a much better name! From now on I'm calling my device the Nova! (Honestly, who chooses a cow's name for an ereader [sorry to any Claras out there, no offence, and you're obviously not a cow if you're reading this].)

I agree with the name, but I keep thinking of a character in the third "Back to the Future" movie. Apparently the name makes sense in Spanish.