Kobo future firmware feature request thread

[Caramon77]

I think I would like a "page background". An image that simulates paper tone variations and defects. Maybe in 3 levels : side shade only - paperback - old book.

[meeera]

Originally Posted by Caramon77

I think I would like a "page background". An image that simulates paper tone variations and defects. Maybe in 3 levels : side shade only - paperback - old book.

Next you'll want one that periodically pumps out the smell of mould, sour decaying glue, dust, bedbugs, and someone else's pipe tobacco.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by meeera

Next you'll want one that periodically pumps out the smell of mould, sour decaying glue, dust, bedbugs, and someone else's pipe tobacco.

The way I see it, if anyone wants to simulate a pBook in the way the paper looks, just read a pBook. Sure you can simulate for formatting and even the font, but when you get down to that level of simulation, go read a pBook.

[Rev. Bob]

Originally Posted by Caramon77

I think I would like a "page background". An image that simulates paper tone variations and defects. Maybe in 3 levels : side shade only - paperback - old book.

On a 16-shade display? Not happening.

[Caramon77]

I would also like to zoom the images i find in my books.

[John F]

Originally Posted by Caramon77

I would also like to zoom the images i find in my books.

For kepubs, you can double tap to bring up an image viewer/zoom.

[Caramon77]

Thank you, but 99% of my books are ePubs!

[Oldu]

- Il est difficile de tenir l'appareil à cause de la sensibilité tactile. Pouvoir désactiver de larges zones de l'écran permettrait d'avoir accès aux fonctions utiles tout en pouvant tenir l'appareil en posant ses doigts sur l'écran, comme avec un vrai livre

- Affiner le réglage de luminosité, comme avec les hacks qu'on trouve sur ce site

[vandafc]

Would be great to provide a QI Wireless charging shell (directly or as an accessory)

[vandafc]

Could you - please - please - please - stop reset my lecture progress to 1% - currently reading when I reopen a book I read in the past?

[PeterT]

Originally Posted by vandafc

Could you - please - please - please - stop reset my lecture progress to 1% - currently reading when I reopen a book I read in the past?

This normally means a corrupted database on the device. If you use calibre, please use the Kobo Utilties plugin and do a Check Database.

[shalym]

Originally Posted by PeterT

This normally means a corrupted database on the device. If you use calibre, please use the Kobo Utilties plugin and do a Check Database.

Are you sure? I read vandafc's post as complaining about books being reset back to the beginning after they are finished. My kobo has done that since the first day I had it. I read a book all the way to the end, and it's marked "Finished". I then open it up later to double-check something in the book, and it's no longer marked as "Finished", it instead shows 1% read (or more, if what I was checking was further into the book)

So this means that my database is corrupt?

Shari

[GeoffR]

If the book had been read and marked as finished, then opening it at the beginning (which shows as 1% progress) is the proper behaviour. (And I hope that doesn't change, it would be a right pain if it opened at the end.)

If the book has been read and not yet marked as finished, then it should open at its current position. If it forgets its current position and opens at the beginning instead then that could indicate a corrupt database. (Edit: or a faulty book.)

[shalym]

Originally Posted by GeoffR

If the book had been read and marked as finished, then opening it at the beginning (which shows as 1% progress) is the proper behaviour. (And I hope that doesn't change, it would be a right pain if it opened at the end.)

If the book has been read and not yet marked as finished, then it should open at its current position. If it forgets its current position and opens at the beginning instead then that could indicate a corrupt database. (Edit: or a faulty book.)

I think the issue may be that the book is no longer marked as "finished". Just because I re-open a book to search for a specific passage doesn't mean that it's categorization should be changed.

Shari

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by shalym

I think the issue may be that the book is no longer marked as "finished". Just because I re-open a book to search for a specific passage doesn't mean that it's categorization should be changed.

Another case of wanting the software to read your mind!

How is it supposed to know the difference between opening a finished book to check something or opening it to reread the book? Or the times you reopen a book to check some detail, but end up rereading it.

For this sort of thing, there has to be a decision made in the design of the application on what to do. Kobo made it in a fashion you don't like. From a usability point of view, I believe this way works better. Reopening the book is treated as starting to read it. If that isn't what is happening, you mark it as finished when you close the book. Otherwise, you would need some other mechanism to indicate the reread.