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Quoth · 09-18-2019, 04:38 AM

Just two tiny issues with the decisions on the GUI design when reading a book:

1. WiFi: No ability to disable while in a book
I might want to look up a word / name / phrase in Wikipedia or Google* when reading, especially my own writing. As before, if WiFi is off, the dialogue offers to turn it on, and it works. Then there is no way to turn it off. On exiting the book, the reader then will immediately try to "Sync", even if automatic sync was off. Previously you could avoid that by explicitly disabling WiFi after the search or before leaving the book. The GUI icon to do that is now missing.

2: Navigation when reading
There is now no menu with Home. Only the "Back" icon, which returns to screen you were at when you opened the book.

So the top bar of Icons needs Home and WiFi. There is space.

Other niggles:
It's nice that the bottom bar of Icons has the Bookmarks/Annotations/Highlights, behaviour in that is as before. It would (as I've always said), be better if Bookmarks only was that icon and Annotations/Highlights had a marker/pen/pencil icon beside that. I appreciate that's not a simple GUI issue like missing Home and WiFi icons as Bookmarks/Annotations/Highlights are all in the one list.

It's nice that Header, Footer and Progress bar are all separately on/off. I expect the Chapter header Plus Progress is chapter in Kepub, but I've not checked, it's handy in epub that it's book progress (I find % more useful than page number or time left) as then I don't need the footer, though the separate Progress bar would show book in kepub. There doesn't seem to be a way to have the Chapter name WITHOUT progress.

Copying off annotations using Kobo Utilities in Calibre is speedy and worked perfectly.
Actually making the annotations is maybe a little faster to select the text, but there is still the bug that certain initial directions of selection seem to "crash" the Touch interface till the ereader is put to sleep maybe 30 seconds (a quick sleep/wake doesn't work).

(* Why hard code Google and Wikipedia? Why not have ability to set two Search Engine URLs on the settings page?)

09-18-2019, 04:38 AM	#106
Quoth Still reading Posts: 14,253 Karma: 105299897 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	Just two tiny issues with the decisions on the GUI design when reading a book: 1. WiFi: No ability to disable while in a book I might want to look up a word / name / phrase in Wikipedia or Google* when reading, especially my own writing. As before, if WiFi is off, the dialogue offers to turn it on, and it works. Then there is no way to turn it off. On exiting the book, the reader then will immediately try to "Sync", even if automatic sync was off. Previously you could avoid that by explicitly disabling WiFi after the search or before leaving the book. The GUI icon to do that is now missing. 2: Navigation when reading There is now no menu with Home. Only the "Back" icon, which returns to screen you were at when you opened the book. So the top bar of Icons needs Home and WiFi. There is space. Other niggles: It's nice that the bottom bar of Icons has the Bookmarks/Annotations/Highlights, behaviour in that is as before. It would (as I've always said), be better if Bookmarks only was that icon and Annotations/Highlights had a marker/pen/pencil icon beside that. I appreciate that's not a simple GUI issue like missing Home and WiFi icons as Bookmarks/Annotations/Highlights are all in the one list. It's nice that Header, Footer and Progress bar are all separately on/off. I expect the Chapter header Plus Progress is chapter in Kepub, but I've not checked, it's handy in epub that it's book progress (I find % more useful than page number or time left) as then I don't need the footer, though the separate Progress bar would show book in kepub. There doesn't seem to be a way to have the Chapter name WITHOUT progress. Copying off annotations using Kobo Utilities in Calibre is speedy and worked perfectly. Actually making the annotations is maybe a little faster to select the text, but there is still the bug that certain initial directions of selection seem to "crash" the Touch interface till the ereader is put to sleep maybe 30 seconds (a quick sleep/wake doesn't work). (* Why hard code Google and Wikipedia? Why not have ability to set two Search Engine URLs on the settings page?)