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I know the Sage's battery life is not that great, but I thought it would last more than 1-2 days.
I read last night on Dark mode with the light at 10%, Wifi off, and Bluetooth off. I had it set to go to sleep after 5 minutes.
This morning the Sage is at 25%. Not good. I charged it yesterday in the morning, but did not use it until about 8:00 p.m. When I plugged it in to me laptop to send Calibre books to it, it charged while I downloaded books.
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That does sound a bit on the short side. How many hours reading per day were you averaging?
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3. Dark mode box needs easier access. I wish they would have put the checkbox for dark mode next to the orientation, light, and fonts. I have to go through settings.[
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You can add a Dark Mode toggle to NickelMenu and make it available on the ... menu on the reader page. See attached image.
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4. Font Settings Advanced: What a mess! I tried to change the WEIGHT of the font, but it was screwed up. For some reason, using the + and - did the same thing. BOTH made the font width bigger. The minus button should have made it thinner, not bigger.
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Sorry but I don't see that here. See the attached images for ChareInk6 set to minimum and maximum weigth. What font are you using?
5. Refresh: I set it to refresh at every new chapter. Could not make it refresh any less. When in dark screen mode and when I turned the page to begin the next chapter, the screen flashed to regular mode then reverted to dark mode. It flashed way too bright after looking at a dark gray screen. I had to remember to close my eyes before turning the last page in a chapter. It does the reverse when in regular mode - flashes to dark mode then back to regular mode. Dark mode is a medium gray, not really dark or black. I prefer dark gray or black.[/QUOTE]
Odd. I can set the refresh down to every page. And what you are seeing is a triple flash to rewrite the screen to clear up ghosting. The screen is written white-black-white to reset the cells. It is a lot more noticeable in dark mode but that's life.
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6. When reading a downloaded book or a Kobo Plus free book, the upcoming page number appeared superimposed on the last letter of a word on the right side of the screen. In dark mode, the page number is in a gray box. In regular mode, the page number is normal black font. It is just irritating.
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That is a Adobe page number. This should not appear on a Kobo Plus or Kobo Epub book since the Webkit-based renderer is not able to display Adobe synthetic page number algorithm generated page numbers. The only time you should see this is if the book type shows in Books as EPUB. You can turn off those numbers on the Reading settings page.
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7. Justification: I don't think the OFF button works at all. Some books had 2 or 3 spaces after a contraction's apostrophe. "Can't" showed up as "can' t", etc. This was on Calibre books and Kobo Plus books. Left justification did better, but it still had extra spaces after an apostrophe.
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One of the reasons that I edit ebooks. If an epub ebook's CSS says to use justified, that is what you will see.
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8. Ghost image: I have no idea why or how this happened.
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Ghosting is an artifact of eInk. You can tap the center of the screen twice to refresh the screen and get rid of ghosting. Several posters set their screens to refresh every page since they tend to be sensitive to ghosting. The only time I really notice it is on images.