Koreader running on Kobos (all of them, hopefully!)

[WS64]

Originally Posted by gontofe

What is the difference in battery life?

no idea, I never turn any of my readers off, they all just go to sleep.

[WS64]

Originally Posted by DNSB

1. If there are multiple calibre.metadata files, utilize all of them. Currently, I can search the books on the internal storage or the external storage but not both. Alternatively, if multiples are present, present them as part of the found dialogue and allow selecting one of them as the default.


4. More of a nit. Change the name from LIBRARY_PATH to SEARCH_PATH or SEARCH_LIBRARYPATH to be consistent with the other SEARCH_whatever entries. Also when using the Set Defaults dialogue, the LIBRARY_PATH is not displayed until it is set to a value other than nil.

Kinda done.
You now have two values which you can fill with libraries, called SEARCH_LIBRARY_PATH and SEARCH_LIBRARY_PATH2.
I guess this will be part of the next nightly.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by WS64

Kinda done.
You now have two values which you can fill with libraries, called SEARCH_LIBRARY_PATH and SEARCH_LIBRARY_PATH2.
I guess this will be part of the next nightly.

Thanks. That should take care of my needs since Calibre places it's files in the root of the storage and I'm not using the send to folder possibility.

Regards,
David

[Ken Maltby]

@WS64;

I liked that screensaver image you showed on GitHub. I installed 539, from the OTA server, and it has an options setting that looks like it would be pointing to an image file to use. Your's would be great, I was thinking you might be able to attach it here on MR, even if not at GH.

The two SEARCH_PATH settings are in 539, as well.

Luck;
Ken

[pblasi]

Hi,

I've been testing spanish hyphenation on some epubs and it's quite good, but still not perfect. Is it possible to import and use other hyphenation dictionaries (libreoffice, openoffice...)?

Thanks

[WS64]

@Ken, sure, here it is.
Save it, rename it to "cracked.png" and put it into a folder on your Kobo and point KOBO_SCREEN_SAVER to it.

[Ken Maltby]

Thanks, works great. I resized it in Gimp2 for my AuraHD, so it fills the screen.
Had to remember to start from the Root, so it starts with "/mnt".
You don't see the change right after you enter it, what I do is use the "Home" icon until I get the option to save my settings. Good thing it is there, but not the most intuitive way to do it. Like it though.

Luck;
Ken

[WS64]

Why did you have to resize it? It should be always full screen.
Btw, a long tap on "set defaults" also ask you to save your settings.

[Ken Maltby]

Originally Posted by WS64

Why did you have to resize it? It should be always full screen.
Btw, a long tap on "set defaults" also ask you to save your settings.

Great, it's not like I read the directions. The resizing in Gimp2 is just force of habit, for images I have been using on my AuraHD. I also make it Grayscale (8bit) which gives the same results as the color RGB on the black&white display.

Luck;
Ken

[WS64]

Originally Posted by DNSB

2. Before displaying the search results, sort them. Scrolling through 4 pages of unsorted results to find a book is not a productive use of my time.

3. More of a blue sky suggestion. Return the series name as a result in the search and allow selecting it to display the books in the series similar to what the Kobo search allows. I suspect that this is onne of those ideas that is going to be a lot harder to implement than would appear.

2: done. the main problem still exists, though. Once you have too many pages you have to click and click and click... We would need a "jump to page 15" functionality... Maybe this is the next I take a look at.

3: In the search dialog there are two new buttons, "Browse series" and "Browse tags". They will display all series/tags which fullfill the search criteria (or all if you don't enter any text). When you click on one of these series/tags it will display all books from corresponding books.

Should be available with the next nightly.

[WS64]

Originally Posted by Ken Maltby

Great, it's not like I read the directions. The resizing in Gimp2 is just force of habit, for images I have been using on my AuraHD. I also make it Grayscale (8bit) which gives the same results as the color RGB on the black&white display.

The problem is there are no directions yet...
There are many new things in the system right now (I still have no idea what zysnc is!), I guess we really need a manual soon!

[danicca]

I apologize if it has already been answered, I tried searching without success. Can I read ADE books on koreader? Kobo is authorized.

[chrox]

Originally Posted by danicca

I apologize if it has already been answered, I tried searching without success. Can I read ADE books on koreader? Kobo is authorized.

Absolutely not and will never be. Koreader is AGPLv3 licensed and DRM-free.

[JimMcLaren]

I'm currently on version 485 and I tried an OTA update on my Aura HD and I get the first message

Do you want to update to version v2014.04-545-g5d8a9fa?

I click Ok and get the following

Downloading may take several minutes...

And then nothing happens. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

[WS64]

Originally Posted by JimMcLaren

I'm currently on version 485 and I tried an OTA update on my Aura HD and I get the first message

Do you want to update to version v2014.04-545-g5d8a9fa?

I click Ok and get the following

Downloading may take several minutes...

And then nothing happens. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

I don't think OTA is working at all on Kobos right now (it never did for me).
There is an open issue about it at GitHub: https://github.com/koreader/koreader/issues/803