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Originally Posted by yur
I pretty much hate everything about this update except the annotations being easier to reach, but worst of all is that the fixed page numbers are gone. I read with pretty big text, and now a normal length book will display as around 900 pages, just like shitty iBooks, which is messing not just my ability to mark out pages for my studies but also my mental map of the book. couldn’t they have added the option of fixed or fluid page numbers?
For a person who got an e-reader specifically for studies, and who changes font size throughout the day, this is more than a mere nuisance and in the “beyond useless” territory. I wish there was a way to downgrade, but I tried a full reset and the firmware stayed the same. My device doesn’t do anything but produce log files when I try sideloading firmware :/ Has anyone else had his problem? I only read about people dropping the unzipped firmware folder in .kobo and then voilà, the firmware updates?
Does it ever help to complain directly to Kobo and where would one go about doing that?
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It could be that enough people complained about page numbers and wanted them for KePub to be one page = one screen. Just like iBooks and other programs that don't do page numbers correctly. ADe page numbers are quite good and you do get used to them based on your settings.
You can side load a previous firmware. Before you updated to 4.18, did you make a backup of all the files in the user partition? If you did, restore it and do a manual update of the firmware you want ot downgrade to.
But remember, that you won't get any bug fixes or new features if you stick with the firmware you are downgrading to.
To downgrade, all of the files in the firmware ZIP in the .kobo directory. Eject the Kobo and it will install.