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Join Date: May 2009
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Device: Aura, Aura H2O, Kindle PW3
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Well I certainly won't be upgrading but I'm not up in arms. As someone else already said, things like a title bar should be selectable in the options. Give us options Kobo! Give us tons and tons of options! Sure most readers probably would have no idea, so just hide them away in an "Advanced" part of the Settings page. Let us turn the title header on or off depending on how we feel. Is that too difficult to program?
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#167 |
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Midwest USA
Device: Sony PRS-350, Kobo Glo & Glo HD, PW2
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As an American I don't whinge... I whine!
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: France
Device: (Sony (J) PRS 650), Kobo Mini, Kobo Glo HD (broken), Kobo Clara BW
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Join Date: Jul 2012
Device: kobo touch
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But neither should customer complains about a firmware change that affects the very core functionality of a device be called whinging. |
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Seriously?
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Join Date: Nov 2010
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Fonts still work. Line spacing works. Margins can still be changed. I can still read on it. If I turn on the wifi it connects, syncs, let's me search and shop. What else exactly is it supposed to do? And if the number of words on the screen is so critical, why aren't these people all using a Kindle DX? |
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#171 |
Grand Sorcerer
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Device: Kobo Clara 2E
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Do you mean still work or still broken? I'm guessing italics on side-loaded ePubs are still being displayed as bold for some of the internal fonts.
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#172 |
Connoisseur
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Join Date: Jul 2012
Device: kobo touch
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#173 |
Grand Sorcerer
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Device: Kobo Clara 2E
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As for the comments "if you don't want the new functionality, don't upgrade the firmware", do you really think this is a viable alternative. I can see how this plays out...
User Jane has a problem so they contact customer support and gets customer support specialist Dick: Jane: Hi I'm having a problem with my reader. Dick: Hi Jane, I'm sorry you are experiencing a problem, I'll be glad to help you today. Dick: Would you please perform a factory reset. Dick: Jane are you still there? Jane: Yes, I'm still here. I'm modifying the database so the firmware won't upgrade. Dick: Could you hold on I minute, I need to look into this. Jane: Dick, are you there? Dick: Yes, I'm still here. I'm looking into this matter. Please be patient. Dick: Ok, I researched this and editing the database is not supported. Jane: Then that means I will get the annoying margins at the top. Dick: That is correct. Jane: Can I delete the update files then? Dick: Could you hold on I minute, I need to look into this. Jane: Dick, are you there? Dick: Yes, I'm still here. I'm looking into this matter. Please be patient. Dick: I'm sorry, but deleting the update files is not supported. Jane: But then I'll get the annoying header. Dick: That is correct. Jane: But I want this bug fixed, and I don't want the headers. Dick: I'm sorry, but you will need to upgrade to the latest firmware before I can help you. Jane: But the users at mobileread said to stop whinging and manually install an earlier firmware and modify the database so I would have the functionality I paid for and wanted and did a lot of reading on and was very happy with. Dick: I'm sorry, but what you are doing is not supported. Jane: Well, I really need the bug fix, so I guess I need to do the factory reset. Dick: Are you still there? Jane: Yes, I'm doing the factory reset. Dick: Are you still there? Jane: Yes it is still resting, how long is this supposed to take? Dick: It should take 5-10 minutes. ... 20 minutes later Dick: Are you still there? Jane: Yes, it is still reseting. Dick: It must be stuck reseting. A small number of people experience a problem reseting. It must be a small number, otherwise you would be hearing about it at mobileread, because not that many people have complained about it, and only the people who have problems complain. Jane: What? Dick: Pleas reset using a paperclip. Do you know how to do this? Jane: Good one. All Kobo owners are paperclip resetting experts. Jane: Ok. The factory reset is complete. I'm still having the problem. Dick: Ok. I now need you to log out and log back in. Jane: Wasn't the factory reset supposed to solve the problem. Dick: Yes, but It didn't so I need you to log out and log back in. I'm sorry for the inconvenience. Jane: OK, I signed out and signed back in. I still have the problem. Dick: At this time I'll need to escalate this to tier 2 support. Can I help you with anything else today. Jane: No thank you. Dick: A quick survey will popup when you disconnect, it would be a big help if you could fill it out. Jane: whatever. Anyone want to do the Tier 2 support? ![]() |
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#174 |
Connoisseur
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Join Date: Nov 2012
Device: kobo
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Go go to the 1.9.14 , french humor ...
![]() The competition is tough, always quality, always more, better and always leave the choice to the customer. Last edited by gouni; 05-11-2013 at 08:37 AM. |
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#175 |
Nameless Being
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Please banish that evil thought! The reason why I choose Kobo over other ereaders is that it's very easy to modify, and the ability to reset the device to a known state gives me confidence that it will continue to be easy to modify.
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Jane: Hi I'm having a problem with my reader.
Mark: Hi Jane, I'm sorry you are experiencing a problem. Can you please describe the problem. Jane: Yes, I cannot remove the title bar from my books. Mark: Are you a MobileRead user? Jane: Yes. Mark: *click* |
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And I can also not say that Kobo doesn't try to fix bugs at all. But going through the threads here on MR and on Getsatisfaction learns that there are a lot of very old bugs that are still waiting to be fixed. Some of these bugs are major, some minor (not irrelevant, trivial maybe), and some are totally unnecessary. I'll give you one example of a minor, for some irrelevant, but a totally unnecessery bug in the metadata of regular epubs: the publisher name is not displayed (<dc ![]() ![]() Quote:
(Nearly) all ebooks sold by publishers have page margins predefined (a user may find these either too small, too large or just right), so it is not necessery that a user agent (the device itself) adds additional margins and therefore not utilizing (maximizing) the available screen size. The margins of the headers and footers are really huge and can easily be reduced without compromizing readability. The option to hide them completely is highly wanted by me. Another question we can ask is this: why is Kobo using two different epub rendering engines? These two engines do exactly the same thing, have the same functionality but may accomplish the visual output differently. From developers point of view one of the engines may be easier to work with. Both engines can open pdf files as Access licensed this from Adobe. Two different engines that do things slightly differently to accomplish the same result and in complience with the standards (epub, epub 3, txt…) and doen't seem very cost effective to me (double licensing fees), programming two different engines… We can also debate if there are really unique features that justify the kepub format. Or is it just a matter of "unique" implementation of features that are incorporated in the underling rendering engines. Both engines support (just to name a few):
So a feature must be easy to use: feature must be logical, easy to navigate (just one or two clicks instead of navigating through several menus). Or a choice to activate a feature at all. Kobo decided not to activate pdf reflow. Bookeen Cybook Odyssey (HD) Has the same features mentioned above.
The Odyssey can change or switch functions on or off:
Sideloading What is sideloading? Or what is the main book format epub or kepub? Kobos own website states: Supported File Formats: eBooks: EPUB, PDF, and MOBI, Documents: PDF, Images: JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, and TIFF, Text: TXT, HTML, and RTF, Comic Books: CBZ and CBR. So clearly: epub is the main document format. Kepubs is an additional format as it is not mentioned in the specs. The kepub is the sideloaded content. I'm sure that if Kobo offered to download purchased books only in their own proprietary kepub format and as this format can only be displayed on Kobo devices they will loose (international) market share really fast. And every special or unique Kobo feature that is only implemented in the kepub format can also be implemented in a regular epub. Special device specific features shouldn't be embedded (e.g. adding Kobo code, like kobo.css or kobo.js) in the epub of kepub but in the device it self. So a user can read a regular epub with all the bells and whistles Kobo has added to their devices to enhance user experience. And potential buyers may say "Got to get me a Kobo because it has really unique special features." But… don't forget to make features optional and users are able to switch it on or off. A feature default setting can always be "on" or "auto". Addition: Users of a Kobo dedicated e-ink device have no choice. The can not change parts of the GUI. Tablet users can switch from a Kobo reading app to other reading apps like Stanza, Aldiko, BlueFire. Just to name a few. And I'm aware that these apps aren't perfect either. Last edited by Anak; 05-11-2013 at 01:53 PM. |
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#178 |
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Location: Limbo
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*Click* as in they hung up on you ?
I think that says it all. Guys I don't think we can expect to have a choice in this matter, Kobo's policy seems to be about forcing changes on people and to hell with what we want or need. It's as if those in charge to decide what changes will be implemented and which won't be, are bureaucrats and not book lovers because if they don't understand that the most fundamental reason to read e-books instead of paper books is the choice one should have in on-screen options then one might as well read paper books where there is no option whatsoever and a printed page will remain so till the end of times or till it becomes dust. So we can't get through to them and this is the end of this issue. I'll stay on 2.5.1 (at least I can do that much) and will wait for REAL 7" screens where 7" can be actually used for reading ![]() Last edited by Quexos; 05-11-2013 at 07:48 AM. |
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#180 |
Grand Sorcerer
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: PA (USA)
Device: Kobo Clara, 2E, Libre 1, PW4, PW5, 2022 Kindle, Kobo Libre Colour
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Preferences --> Plugins --> Device Interface plugins ---> Kobo ---> customize plugin. It's in that box.
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