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Originally Posted by twowheels
The thing is, there is an agreement -- it's documented in the USB standard, just some designers can't be bothered to follow it. They probably had a huge stock of the connectors already or got the wrong ones for 1 cent less per connector, and didn't care -- and why should they since nobody else cares and almost nobody actually knows about that little detail anyhow.
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Ah, I see. I didn't know there was any supposed agreement.
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Originally Posted by twowheels
If you're using a cable other than the one that came with it, you can probably just feel for the existing USB logo on the cable end and put it DOWN (since Kobo put the port in upside-down).
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Some of my cables have had a USB symbol on one side and a raised logo on the other, so there was something similar to feel on both sides.
Fiddling with USB plugs is one place where myopia comes in handy as my up-close vision is quite good.