Firmware 3.8.0 released - Page 19

filmo · 09-20-2014, 11:43 PM

I have Kobo Touch with 3.3.0 and Kobo Mini with 3.4.1 firmware versions. Both still have slider at bottom of library page. I have 90 books on Kobo Mini and 2354 books on Kobo Touch. I have long standing complaint about idiotic implementation of slider at bottom of library page. By getting rid of sider they are hiding an embarrassment which is much easier than programing proper implemented slider.

As I move the slider it should quickly show location change letting me know when to stop at wanted Title or Author. Kobo in its infinite wisdom displays page numbers as slider is moved. Not Authors or Titles that would be useful. Page numbers indicating position in library I am scanning with slider gives poor general position which is a cruel joke time waster in a 2000 book library.

Using Search function for title or author is fast accurate and easy.

Rev. Bob · 09-21-2014, 01:45 AM

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Originally Posted by rosalita

Does anyone have any suggestions how to regain the size-changing ability?

It may not be the firmware's fault. Some publishers make the (IMO, rather stupid) choice to specify absolute font sizes instead of relative, flexible ones. As a result, the slider would have no effect on those books.

DNSB · 09-21-2014, 04:06 AM

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Originally Posted by rosalita

Hello all. I think this is my first time posting here but I read these forums all the time and have gotten lots of great tips and advice here. I have a Kobo Touch from 2011, and I love it. But the latest firmware seems to have played havoc with the ability to change the font size in certain books. Even if I push the slider all the way to the right, the font size stays at the same uncomfortably (for me) small size.

Does anyone have any suggestions how to regain the size-changing ability?

The few times I've seen that problem has been in ebooks that specify the font size in absolute values (pixels or points are the most common). Unfortunately a font size that is readable on a Touch gets rather small on a Glo and unreadable on a Aura HD.

The only answer I've found is to edit the ebook to change the font size to relative. This only works when the ebook is not DRMed or you have removed the DRM. Some books just aren't worth the trouble to break the DRM.

See css-font-size-relative-vs-absolute-values-which-to-use for a bit more information.

fx3000se · 09-21-2014, 05:34 AM

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Originally Posted by davidfor

If you mean, should you use the Mark 4 version of the firmware for your Mini, then yes. The Mini is a Mark 4 device, so always use that firmware.

Thanks. Sideloaded and it works!

Nick_1964 · 09-21-2014, 07:53 AM

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Originally Posted by rosalita

Hello all. I think this is my first time posting here but I read these forums all the time and have gotten lots of great tips and advice here. I have a Kobo Touch from 2011, and I love it. But the latest firmware seems to have played havoc with the ability to change the font size in certain books. Even if I push the slider all the way to the right, the font size stays at the same uncomfortably (for me) small size.

It doesn't happen with all books, and it's possible it's only happening with books that I downloaded via Overdrive from the library and then loaded using ADE. I've read through this whole thread to see if anyone else has experienced this issue, but it doesn't seem to have been raised yet.

Does anyone have any suggestions how to regain the size-changing ability?

Like DNSB said, there are some books that have a fontsize predefined in the .css of that book,that is not to blame on the e-reader or firmware.
Some books have it,and you have stumbled to the one it has.
With pre defined font sizes in an ebook,the slider to make it smaller or bigger is overruled.
( I hate those books ! )
With calibre you can convert the book and get rid of the pre defined fonts.
(look and behave section, I insert there the input of the Amasis font in stead of the used font and adjust the fontsize there .)
Just do a epub-epub conversion ( or kepub- kepub)
Making it very easy said (there are a lot of technical rules that override it or say it more accurate, i just keep it very general just to explain what happens) an ebook exist out of several html files, an index, and a css file that defines how the book will look like, all the html files and needed other files like fonts and pictures are in it,then it is zipped and renamed to epub to handle it as one file.

As example in the html file is a tag to font 12 to use in the entire book.
In the css file there is a rule for font 12 say, it have 12 pts size,and it is italic.
As result,you see on the reader that part in italic, with the pre-defined font size.
But how bigger screen and resolution are, the more smaller the 12 pts size become.
Some books don't even have a .css file,then the size of the font is allso named in the html file.
By converting the file in calibre you can set a bigger font size,or removing font or value at all, then the slider works.
Or you can download Sigil, open the epub,look what font is defined in the html files,then go to the .css file (or html file) and change or remove the font size of the used font there.
Both converting,or editing the epub/kepub is only possible if the DRM protection is removed (watermarked books mostly don't have DRM protection) ,there are plugins for calibre that removes DRM, there are programs that can do it, search on Google for it, but I don't think it is ok to give the names of the programs here in public (I can do it by pm.)
Calibre also has a build in editor simular to Sigil,so you can use only one program to handle both. (And it is very handy of building a catalogue of all the books you have,and can be used to send the books to your reader and much more.)

rosalita · 09-21-2014, 08:20 AM

Thanks, everyone, for the replies. The reason I suspected the firmware is that this particular library book was on my Touch before the update and I would swear that the font was scalable then. Now when I open it, it is not. Since this is a library book, editing it in Calibre isn't an option, unfortunately.

Nick_1964 · 09-21-2014, 08:35 AM

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Originally Posted by rosalita

Thanks, everyone, for the replies. The reason I suspected the firmware is that this particular library book was on my Touch before the update and I would swear that the font was scalable then. Now when I open it, it is not. Since this is a library book, editing it in Calibre isn't an option, unfortunately.

Then I would notice it to the Library,they normally can edit the book as they put the DRM on it depending on the time you loan it.
There is a patch for the firmware that completely disable all css rules, (Ignore book internal CSS stylesheet) but that ruines every layout of every book, so it is not the best one to enable,it will help you on this book,but destroys the lay-out of all the other ones, you could enable the patch for just that one book,and return it unpatched when finished. But patching the firmware is not so easy if you have never done that.
You can find more information here:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=245204
If you gonna patch the firmware, you have to enable the patch Ignore book internal CSS stylesheet found in librmsdk.so.1.0.0.patch of the patch set.

Maybe,when u deside to patch it,it is good to read this ?
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...8&postcount=20

If you are really sure your book was scalable,you can go back to the previous firmware, but then be careful,because if not patched,you will be upgraded again when U use wifi sync or the Kobo desktop software.
The old firmwares can be found here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=185660

anacreon · 09-23-2014, 02:31 AM

I'm getting more and more annoyed with 3.8's behaviour with police settings: I have many books open at the same time, and every time I modify one, specifically size, for one book, I have to reset any book I re-open . I know it is normal for a book I open for the first time on the device, but opened books used to memorize their own last settings. Is it only me? Should I open a bug?

davidfor · 09-23-2014, 03:57 AM

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Originally Posted by anacreon

I'm getting more and more annoyed with 3.8's behaviour with police settings: I have many books open at the same time, and every time I modify one, specifically size, for one book, I have to reset any book I re-open . I know it is normal for a book I open for the first time on the device, but opened books used to memorize their own last settings. Is it only me? Should I open a bug?

This isn't something that has changed recently. If the firmware detects a change in a book on the device, it is removed from the internal database and reprocessed as a new book. The change it is looking for is file size. This is stored in the database. if the file size is different, it is reprocessed. There was a time that this was not the case, but that was a long time ago. It might actually have been changed with FW2.0.0, but it was definitely before FW2.8.1.

If you use calibre, the KoboTouch driver handles this. When a book is resent to the device, the driver updates the file size in the database. As long as you don't change the structure of the book this is safe. Fixing spelling, grammar. code in a page or the CSS is safe. But, changing the names of the files in an epub or changing the ToC is not. In this case the book needs to be deleted and reprocessed.

anacreon · 09-23-2014, 04:42 AM

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Originally Posted by davidfor

This isn't something that has changed recently. If the firmware detects a change in a book on the device, it is removed from the internal database and reprocessed as a new book. The change it is looking for is file size. This is stored in the database. if the file size is different, it is reprocessed. There was a time that this was not the case, but that was a long time ago. It might actually have been changed with FW2.0.0, but it was definitely before FW2.8.1.

If you use calibre, the KoboTouch driver handles this. When a book is resent to the device, the driver updates the file size in the database. As long as you don't change the structure of the book this is safe. Fixing spelling, grammar. code in a page or the CSS is safe. But, changing the names of the files in an epub or changing the ToC is not. In this case the book needs to be deleted and reprocessed.

My problem is different. It concerns books that are already on the device, being read, with no modification in size or metadata. When I switch from one to another after modifying police size on the first, the second one's size also is modified. Since different books need different adjustments in size, that means I have to modify the second one's police size, and so the first one's for instance when I return to it. I often go back and forth when a book mentions other books, plus I alternate big "heavy" books with quicker reads.

PeterT · 09-23-2014, 05:07 AM

Pardon my asking, but WHAT is "police size"?

tshering · 09-23-2014, 05:21 AM

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Originally Posted by PeterT

Pardon my asking, but WHAT is "police size"?

police (de caractère) = font

Ripplinger · 09-23-2014, 05:24 AM

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Originally Posted by anacreon

I'm getting more and more annoyed with 3.8's behaviour with police settings: I have many books open at the same time, and every time I modify one, specifically size, for one book, I have to reset any book I re-open . I know it is normal for a book I open for the first time on the device, but opened books used to memorize their own last settings. Is it only me? Should I open a bug?

I just tried changing both the font and the size on my reader with 3.8.0 on it, and both books retain the settings through sleep and even through shutdown. When I go back to a book, the font and size I set are still displayed within the book, they don't all revert to the last change I made.

Is it only 2 books you've tried it on or does that happen with all books you try? But it sounds like it's only you.

Edit to add that I only use epubs as well, never kepubs. Kepubs may behave differently as doubleshuffle suggested.

doubleshuffle · 09-23-2014, 05:40 AM

On my Aura HD the books retain their font settings as well. When I open a new book, one I hadn't opened before, it will start out with the settings of the one opened last.

But I read only sideloaded epubs. I seem to recall that anacreon prefers kepubs.

anacreon · 09-23-2014, 06:34 AM

Yes I do prefer kepubs (only 4 epubs and 2 pdfs among the 1975 books on my reader), and yes, this is for all the books I've at least dipped in - some 20 in the last 2 days. So I'm the only one. By the way, since the HD crashed on September 15, I only read on the aura 6", but I had the same problem on the HD. We'll see how it goes when the H2o is available in France and I can replace the HD.

PS: I do know the word for "police" is font in English - when I check better what I wrote.

09-23-2014, 02:31 AM	#278
anacreon Guru Posts: 978 Karma: 3475832 Join Date: May 2012 Location: France Device: Elipsa, Sage, Libra 2	memorizing settings per book I'm getting more and more annoyed with 3.8's behaviour with police settings: I have many books open at the same time, and every time I modify one, specifically size, for one book, I have to reset any book I re-open . I know it is normal for a book I open for the first time on the device, but opened books used to memorize their own last settings. Is it only me? Should I open a bug?

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09-20-2014, 11:43 PM	#271
filmo Wizard Posts: 1,326 Karma: 1077205 Join Date: Jun 2011 Device: Kobo Touch, Sony T1, Kobo Mini	I have Kobo Touch with 3.3.0 and Kobo Mini with 3.4.1 firmware versions. Both still have slider at bottom of library page. I have 90 books on Kobo Mini and 2354 books on Kobo Touch. I have long standing complaint about idiotic implementation of slider at bottom of library page. By getting rid of sider they are hiding an embarrassment which is much easier than programing proper implemented slider. As I move the slider it should quickly show location change letting me know when to stop at wanted Title or Author. Kobo in its infinite wisdom displays page numbers as slider is moved. Not Authors or Titles that would be useful. Page numbers indicating position in library I am scanning with slider gives poor general position which is a cruel joke time waster in a 2000 book library. Using Search function for title or author is fast accurate and easy.

09-21-2014, 08:20 AM	#276
rosalita Connoisseur Posts: 66 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2014 Location: Iowa Device: Kobo Glo HD, Kobo Forma, Kindle Paperwhite 3	Thanks, everyone, for the replies. The reason I suspected the firmware is that this particular library book was on my Touch before the update and I would swear that the font was scalable then. Now when I open it, it is not. Since this is a library book, editing it in Calibre isn't an option, unfortunately.

09-23-2014, 05:07 AM	#281
PeterT Grand Sorcerer Posts: 13,540 Karma: 78910202 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Toronto Device: Libra H2O, Libra Colour	Pardon my asking, but WHAT is "police size"?

09-23-2014, 05:40 AM	#284
doubleshuffle Unicycle Daredevil Posts: 13,944 Karma: 185432100 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Planet of the Pudding Brains Device: Aura HD (R.I.P. After six years the USB socket died.) tolino shine 3	On my Aura HD the books retain their font settings as well. When I open a new book, one I hadn't opened before, it will start out with the settings of the one opened last. But I read only sideloaded epubs. I seem to recall that anacreon prefers kepubs.

09-23-2014, 06:34 AM	#285
anacreon Guru Posts: 978 Karma: 3475832 Join Date: May 2012 Location: France Device: Elipsa, Sage, Libra 2	Yes I do prefer kepubs (only 4 epubs and 2 pdfs among the 1975 books on my reader), and yes, this is for all the books I've at least dipped in - some 20 in the last 2 days. So I'm the only one. By the way, since the HD crashed on September 15, I only read on the aura 6", but I had the same problem on the HD. We'll see how it goes when the H2o is available in France and I can replace the HD. PS: I do know the word for "police" is font in English - when I check better what I wrote.