Touch Kobo Touch future firmware feature request thread - Page 88

Peakcrew · 06-17-2014, 12:39 PM

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Originally Posted by davidfor

Yes, an indication of which books in the list had annotations would be good. But, with the recent firmware, you can get to them without opening the book. Long press on the book and the menu will have "Annotations" if the book has annotations.

Thanks, David - I had just come back to report this feature after playing with my Touch (ooerr!) this afternoon.

Jellby · 06-17-2014, 02:53 PM

An option to remove all annotations (or by type: all highlights, all bookmarks...) would be useful too. Or is it there already? I looked for it (not very exhaustively) and didn't find it.

Corpsegoddess · 06-17-2014, 06:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by davidfor

Yes, an indication of which books in the list had annotations would be good. But, with the recent firmware, you can get to them without opening the book. Long press on the book and the menu will have "Annotations" if the book has annotations.

I have my Kobo set up to update every night, and I don't have the "annotations" option. It says it was last updated this morning at 1:49 am.

Edit: going to do a manual sync now and see if that changes anything.

Edit edit: Nope, I still don't have that option in the long press menu.

davidfor · 06-17-2014, 08:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jellby

An option to remove all annotations (or by type: all highlights, all bookmarks...) would be useful too. Or is it there already? I looked for it (not very exhaustively) and didn't find it.

It's already there. Sort of. Kobo are working on the Annotations list. A partial update went out in FW3.4.1. But, that was only released for the Mini, and the Mini isn't using the new Annotations list, only those who sideloaded it on a Glo, Aura or Aura HD will see it. It will be on all devices for the next release.

I think I posted the changes elsewhere, but, they are:

Two views: Notebook (shows the annotations) and List
Search (not working yet)
Filtering by type - All, Highlights, Notes or Bookmarks
Sorting - Location or Recent (date created)
"Remove All" option
Tapping an entry in the Notebook view does the "Show in book" action
Display of the location in the book has changed

There are some other changes in the annotations as well that are interesting. When making an annotation, the note taking uses sentence case (turns caps on for the first letter after a dot) and shows a count of the number of characters typed (both useless and interesting).

From memory, all these changes are in FW3.4.1. But, there are a few problems. These should be fixed for the next release.

davidfor · 06-17-2014, 08:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Corpsegoddess

I have my Kobo set up to update every night, and I don't have the "annotations" option. It says it was last updated this morning at 1:49 am.

Edit: going to do a manual sync now and see if that changes anything.

Edit edit: Nope, I still don't have that option in the long press menu.

What firmware version do you have now? I'm pretty sure the options was added in 3.3.0. That should have gone out to everyone by now.

Corpsegoddess · 06-17-2014, 09:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by davidfor

What firmware version do you have now? I'm pretty sure the options was added in 3.3.0. That should have gone out to everyone by now.

My software version says it's 3.3.0, with a date of 4/17/14.

davidfor · 06-17-2014, 09:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Corpsegoddess

My software version says it's 3.3.0, with a date of 4/17/14.

That's the latest generally available firmware. 3.3.1 was only for the Brazilian version of Portuguese and 3.4.1 was only for the Mini. I checked last night before posting on one of my Touches. I was thinking it had 3.3.0 on it, but I might have sideloaded 3.3.1.

Just to be sure:

- Open a book and add an annotation
- Close the book
- Go to the library list and find the book
- Tap the menu icon for the book to display the menu (or long press on it)

If the firmware you have supports it, "Annotations" will be the second item on the menu.

Corpsegoddess · 06-17-2014, 11:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by davidfor

That's the latest generally available firmware. 3.3.1 was only for the Brazilian version of Portuguese and 3.4.1 was only for the Mini. I checked last night before posting on one of my Touches. I was thinking it had 3.3.0 on it, but I might have sideloaded 3.3.1.

Just to be sure:

- Open a book and add an annotation
- Close the book
- Go to the library list and find the book
- Tap the menu icon for the book to display the menu (or long press on it)

If the firmware you have supports it, "Annotations" will be the second item on the menu.

No joy. I did as you said, went back to the book, and this is what I have available from the long press menu:

View details
Mark as unread
Mark as finished
Add to collection
Remove

That's it.

Jellby · 06-18-2014, 04:03 AM

I have an Aura with 3.3.0, and I'm almost sure I saw the Annotations menu entry (I don't have it now with me), but it might have been elsewhere.

davidfor · 06-18-2014, 08:06 AM

I just checked, my other Touch was not running either 3.3.0 or 3.3.1. And I've just tried both of these, and neither have the annotations menu option. Look like it was introduced with 3.4.1.

lohtse · 07-04-2014, 03:22 AM

would love full dropbox integration

ksiflhjla8 · 09-07-2014, 05:07 AM

The PDF reader STILL cuts off half pages. No other pdf reader on any computer does this.

It seems it uses the dimensions of the first page in the document. If there are bigger pages afterwards it will crop them. This is nonsense behaviour.

See https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=245627

vandafc · 09-09-2014, 05:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Corpsegoddess

This has probably been mentioned before, but I haven't seen it recently, so I'll bring it up.

I would love the ability to see if there are any (and if so, how many) annotations for each book in my list. Right now, only the ones that appear on the main page show annotation information, but once they're bumped, that's it. There's no way for me to know which books in my library list have them.

Just a simple icon (the pencil would do) could appear under the percentage read, on the right-hand side of the book information. Touching that would bring up the annotations for each book.

Great idea!
+1

vandafc · 09-09-2014, 05:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ichrispa

I'd really appreciate
(1) The ability to hide the control surfaces in the Kobo Touch/Glo Web browser. I would love to have the websites in fullscreen mode and have the address bar/zoom visible when clicking on a certain area (like the controls when reading an ebook).

(2) The PDF support has gotten a lot better in 2.4.0, but I would like to manually control whether the page-turning margins are shown next to pages.

Totally agree with you, the web browser would be more usable with a fullscreen mode.

dennis123 · 11-23-2014, 04:48 AM

I have a single request:
I got a lot of e-books in my Kobo Aura HD. There is no way to check what the book is about. I don't see any summary so I have to Google the book titles.
(this does not apply to the books from the Kobo store). It would be really nice if there is some link to the book summary instead of only a small picture of the cover.

09-07-2014, 05:07 AM	#1317
ksiflhjla8 Connoisseur Posts: 59 Karma: 13124 Join Date: Jul 2008 Device: Kobo Aura HD	The PDF reader STILL cuts off half pages. No other pdf reader on any computer does this. It seems it uses the dimensions of the first page in the document. If there are bigger pages afterwards it will crop them. This is nonsense behaviour. See https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=245627 Last edited by ksiflhjla8; 09-07-2014 at 11:05 AM.

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Jellby frumious Bandersnatch Posts: 7,546 Karma: 19001583 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Spaniard in Sweden Device: Cybook Orizon, Kobo Aura	An option to remove all annotations (or by type: all highlights, all bookmarks...) would be useful too. Or is it there already? I looked for it (not very exhaustively) and didn't find it.

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Jellby frumious Bandersnatch Posts: 7,546 Karma: 19001583 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Spaniard in Sweden Device: Cybook Orizon, Kobo Aura	I have an Aura with 3.3.0, and I'm almost sure I saw the Annotations menu entry (I don't have it now with me), but it might have been elsewhere.

06-18-2014, 08:06 AM	#1315
davidfor Grand Sorcerer Posts: 24,905 Karma: 47303824 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia Device: Kobo:Touch,Glo, AuraH2O, GloHD,AuraONE, ClaraHD, Libra H2O; tolinoepos	I just checked, my other Touch was not running either 3.3.0 or 3.3.1. And I've just tried both of these, and neither have the annotations menu option. Look like it was introduced with 3.4.1.

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11-23-2014, 04:48 AM	#1320
dennis123 Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2014 Device: Kobo aura HD	I have a single request: I got a lot of e-books in my Kobo Aura HD. There is no way to check what the book is about. I don't see any summary so I have to Google the book titles. (this does not apply to the books from the Kobo store). It would be really nice if there is some link to the book summary instead of only a small picture of the cover.