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Old 02-27-2026, 12:29 PM   #259
Fahrenheit451
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Device: Kobo Libra 2
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Originally Posted by Renate View Post
Hmm, that's rechargeable. The early ones were 2032 battery.

Years ago, I bought an "AB Shutter".
It actually used an EEPROM in it so you could reprogram the key presses to be anything without modifying the setup/software on the target device.
So I re-ordered a dozen of them.
They came in with a single IC and no EEPROM.

There may still be the problem of having a short sleep timeout.
As a photo clicker, the ones that I have seen timed out at 60 seconds.
That's problematic for a "stare-into-space" reader like me.
Finding where to change the timeout in the firmware is more difficult than mapping keys.
No, those are not rechargable, even the seller's description says so.
Plain CR2032.

I made a test on sleep timeout - 5 minutes.
Yes, not very convenient during "stare-into-space" reading. My Kobo's sleep timeout set to 5 minutes.
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