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Originally Posted by PeterT
How about trying to select the top 5 Reading Experience issues and I'll do the best I can to get them reported to Kobo.
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Ok,, I'll bite. 1 and 2 are recently created bugs. 3-5 are longstanding personal wishlist items.
1. I'll start with the issue that started this thread even. Adjustment of text selection with the 'handles.' Once text is selected, the selection can not be adjusted unless you know the trick to moving the handles. (drag once to 'unlock' them, then once the pop up menu is gone, drag again to actually move.) This was a regression added in an update at least 3 versions ago.
2. New regression affecting Epub files introduced with 4.15. In some books, if there are two TOC entries pointing to the the same internal file, (ex: Heading and subheading,), at some points in the book, putting the kobo to sleep or going back to home will loose your current page. Bookmarks and highlights are also impossible to create in these locations.
3. In Kepub, measurements of physical length are translated to a fixed number of pixels. For a very common example, text-indent 20pt. The number of pixes were adjusted back when devices were 160PPI,,,, on a 300PPI device, 20pt indent is barely distinguishable.
4. In Kepub, page numbering for the whole book jumps around out of order on some books (ie, display progress for whole book instead of per chapter). This is related to the reader using TOC entries instead of the epub spine to determine page numbers, and I realize you're only likely to see on 'unsupported' kepub sideloaded books. But there's no reason for it!.. the calculation for progress by Percent got it right, it should be possible to get page number ordering using the same logic.
5. For epub books, the font used does not fall back if the text has missing glyphs... for books that take advantage of Unicode characters, this means those characters will be missing entirely from the text, even if Kobo fully supports it. (Works fine with Kepub)