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Old 09-03-2022, 02:21 AM   #29
mkozlows
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Join Date: Oct 2012
Device: Kobo Sage/KOReader
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Originally Posted by mezzanine View Post
I don't remember hearing about this button issue in any of the reviews I read from members here. I was actually optimistic the buttons had been improved from the Forma/Libra because, at least in photos, it seemed like the build quality was generally higher on the newer Sage.
The buttons on the Sage are better than the Forma buttons. Mechanically, they're perfectly fine. The "sticking" that people are talking about here (which also happens to me) is not a mechanical problem -- the button isn't literally stuck down as far as I can tell, just the software thinks it is.

When the page-forward button gets "stuck" like that, I stop it by hitting the page-back button. After I page back to where I should be, the first time I try to turn the page forward, nothing happens despite the button clearly pressing a switch; the next time, it actually pages forward. It very much seems like the software (I use KOReader, but it doesn't seem to be limited to KOReader) is missing the button-up event every so often, so treating it like the button is just held down until the next time it sees a button-up.

I'm really surprised this doesn't happen to everyone, because it does not feel at all like a hardware problem, but a software one. Maybe there's something going on with the hardware that I just can't feel?
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