Just got firmware 3.3.0

[hleo12]

Originally Posted by yayo

Actually, after you turn off the full screen option and fiddle with the margin slider a bit things go back to normal and stay normal unless you select full screen again. That's why I didn't bother deleting the strings in the config file.

Was the string in the config file there after you updated it, or did you have to put it in? I own a Glo and after sideloading the update, it wasn't there.

[yayo]

No, it wasn't there, it's still an experimental feature. This is what I had to do to make it work.

[Danger]

Originally Posted by jackie_w

Yes, there is - as long as you've previously tapped the Navigation icon, it will remember to show the Navigation pop-up again next time you centre-tap the page.

Well Obviously I was thinking something else. You are correct, I hadn't tapped the navigation icon. I only have one book that I use the navigation for and I go straight to the table of contents link. Don't think it ever clicked that the page numbers were listed there as well. Thank you.

[Smartie]

Originally Posted by GeoffR

The chapter name and page number are shown at the bottom of the navigation <--> menu, and if you leave that menu active, it is just one tap to check the page number while reading.

A separate slider for top/bottom margins would be ideal, but it is quite easy to automatically set a fixed top margin when transfering the book with Calibre, and another possibility is a patch being tested that makes the margin slider change the bottom and/or top margins together with the left/right margins.

Is their any way to go to page directly by enter page number? I have two kobo, I use one on subway and one at home. it is painful to use <--> menu. I probably spend one or two minutes just locate the page I read on another kobo

[npr]

Just tried the full screen again and initial the text was ok along the right hand side, I read half a dozen pages with no issue.
However I discovered:
1) if I change the font size all the text move about 3 mm to the right cutting off the last character on each line.
2) if I change the justification to off or to left the the last character is unaffected, it's only when using left and right justification that give the problem.

Removing GeoffR's wonderful patches from the Aura has fixed the problem. Sorry I didn't note which of the patches I had enabled.

I've re-installed the following patches (they are a must have) and everything is ok so far

Applying patches ...
Applying patch [Custom reading footer style] ...
OK
Applying patch [My 10 line spacing values] ...
DISABLED IN CONFIG
Applying patch [My 15 line spacing values] ...
OK
Applying patch [Custom fonts sizes] ...
OK
Applying patch [Custom left & right margins] ...
DISABLED IN CONFIG
Applying patch [Freedom to advanced fonts control] ...
DISABLED IN CONFIG
Applying patch [Brightness fine control] ...
DISABLED IN CONFIG
Applying patch [Unitless ePub line height] ...
OK
Applying patch [Synopsis font size fix] ...
DISABLED IN CONFIG
Applying patch [Search in Library by default] ...
DISABLED IN CONFIG
Applying patch [Allow download all in Browser] ...
DISABLED IN CONFIG
Applying patch [Wi-Fi insomnia] ...
DISABLED IN CONFIG
Applying patch [Margins fine tuning] ...
DISABLED IN CONFIG

Correction, the text has now moved 3mm to the right

Forget the above, now removed the patch and still have the problem this time

[TechniSol]

Patches, we don' need no steenkin' patches... (apologies, I could not resist.)

I have newly virgin(sounds like a Hollywood plastic surgery consultation) firmware 3.3.0 and no problem with cut off characters with the header/footer on or off. But, I'm reading side loaded epubs, haven't tried a kepub, so that may be the key(pub). Perhaps the bug is related to kepubs, or renamed epubs-as-kepubs and the kepub renderer?

At any rate, it's nice to have the option of FULL page. Personally, I prefer the page number footers and alternating title/chapter headers, but may change my mind if I give it a decent trial.

I wouldn't mind seeing an option where they extract book title and chapter info from the metadata and epub text and alternated them as header on each new screen with page number footers and automagically ignored the ones some idiots have hardcoded into some of my files and now end up in the middle of pages... Grr. Yeah, yeah, REGEX this...

We need more AUTOMAGICAL processing. ;-) Do what I want, NOT what I tell you!

[hleo12]

I was able to do it! I used Notepad++ and it basically took care of itself...

I did get that cut off thingy though. But I ticked on, off, or, then off again that header/footer option, changed the margin, then reverted the margin again, then the cut off got corrected...

It might be that doing o ly one of the things above fixed it, but I did them all and now I'm a happy camper...

[anacreon]

I recently sideloaded 3.3 on both the aura HD and the plain aura, and added again the two-fingers improvement on the HD (after dutifully uninstalling it before upgrading the version).
And yesterday, for the first time, I had a new behaviour on both (I use the plain aura outside): when I try to change lighting level a round magnifying glass appears in the middle of the page, then the whole book goes to maximum font size. True, I have diverging fingers (arthritis), but I never saw that in preceding versions (I skipped 3.2).

A minor difference: I think the font changed for book information - everything in a sanserif font and a decent size. There used to be books with very small characters, while readable on calibre.

Anybody else noticed those modifications? Or others?

[hleo12]

This is the reason why I liked the header/footer...

Update: it seems that the browser issue is also happening with zoomed in images. At least on cbr files.

[paola]

Originally Posted by anacreon

And yesterday, for the first time, I had a new behaviour on both (I use the plain aura outside): when I try to change lighting level a round magnifying glass appears in the middle of the page, then the whole book goes to maximum font size. True, I have diverging fingers (arthritis), but I never saw that in preceding versions (I skipped 3.2).

I have this on the Aura (non HD) on firmware 3.2.0 and I noticed it before installing any hacks. I think the magnifying glass appears if you widen two fingers - the wider you go, the larger the font, and the other way around.

[Anak]

Originally Posted by davidfor

Pressing the shift button twice turns on the CAPS lock. Press it again to release it.

Didn't know about this 'hidden' feature in the GUI. Thanks.

[npr]

Originally Posted by TechniSol

Patches, we don' need no steenkin' patches... (apologies, I could not resist.)

Woosh

I've played a bit more with this full screen thing.

Some of my books have the cut off some don't.
All are kepub.epub so I've reloaded a troublesome book as plain epub and that appeared to fix the problem -- no cut off.
Could this issue be confined to kepub.epub?

[yayo]

Does this mean that now epubs show header & footer too with the full screen hack enabled?

[hleo12]

Originally Posted by yayo

Does this mean that now epubs show header & footer too with the full screen hack enabled?

I've tried just regular epubs and they still show only the footer when the option is unchecked.

On a separate note, I'd really like some sort of page number even on full screen mode. And I would really like for kobo to bring back the statistics for sideloaded kepubs.

[booklover6]

Originally Posted by hleo12

I would really like for kobo to bring back the statistics for sideloaded kepubs.

I really miss that, too. I still have it on my Mini(s)