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Old 04-15-2015, 06:51 PM   #451
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Why none of the GoodEreader reviews of the new Glo HD show/compare the light functionality ... ?
Because GoodEreader are unprofessional and very biased toward Amazon. Seriously, look at any of the comparisons they do between any ereader and a Kindle.
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Old 04-15-2015, 07:21 PM   #452
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For myself, knowing that Kobo's search works so badly bothers me more than the actual hindered use of it. It doesn't really happen often when you search for a word that occurs more than 100x in a book.
It is a silly limitation and I'm not sure the reason for it, but as Ripplinger said, how often do you actually search a book and get more than 100 results?
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Old 04-15-2015, 07:40 PM   #454
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Because GoodEreader are unprofessional and very biased toward Amazon. Seriously, look at any of the comparisons they do between any ereader and a Kindle.
Well I am pretty much sold on the new Glo HD as a replacement for my Kobo Touch (which BTW I am nothing but happy about), but it would be nice to see the light functionality "in action" ... But I don't doubt it will work just fine since this won't be the first model for Kobo with the backlight implementation ...
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Old 04-15-2015, 07:41 PM   #455
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Because GoodEreader are unprofessional and very biased toward Amazon. Seriously, look at any of the comparisons they do between any ereader and a Kindle.
It's probably just as much that the light is now old hat and just work. While there are still differences, there probably isn't enough for it to be a real selling point plus showing the difference in video would take more skill than these guys possess.
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Old 04-15-2015, 08:01 PM   #456
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Yes it is one of the "oddities" Kobos have... I think the other biggest ones worth mentioning are:
  • Nested ToCs are flattened. All the levels/entries are shown one after the other with any kind of distinction.
  • Page jumps (or their contrary, page jump avoiding) do not work in kepubs. They are just ignored. (They work in epubs as expected).
What do you mean by this? As a rule, I find navigation and page turning to work a little better in kepubs than epubs, so I don't know what you are referring to.
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  • Widows and orphans are disabled in kepubs and sometimes buggy in epubs.
I don't want to start that argument again, but I can't don't think I have seen any problems with widows and orphans in epubs for a long time.
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Old 04-16-2015, 12:20 AM   #457
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There is a simple solution, sell the Voyage. But one thing though. The Voyage's value has dropped due to the Glo HD.
I doubt that the value of a used Voyage has dropped at all because of the Kobo HD. I think -- eventually -- the value of new Voyages will drop because of the Kobo HD plus (I'm guessing) more high resolution readers to follow.
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Old 04-16-2015, 12:54 AM   #458
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What do you mean by this? As a rule, I find navigation and page turning to work a little better in kepubs than epubs, so I don't know what you are referring to.
Damn English not being my native language... I didn't mean page turns but CSS page-break-whatever properties being ignored by ACCESS.


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I don't want to start that argument again, but I can't don't think I have seen any problems with widows and orphans in epubs for a long time.
Either I've missed something recent or you are not remembering it. The last time you posted that RMSDK had been updated in the FW release thread it was made, I performed some dumb tests and I uploaded some pictures of my Kobo showing strange W&O control. IIRC in the previous page there was a blank free space which could have allowed at least one line more of the next page paragraph, and of course the paragraph was long enough in that second page. I'll dig the exact post. (And of course it wasn't that W&O values were 5...)
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Old 04-16-2015, 02:05 AM   #459
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Damn English not being my native language... I didn't mean page turns but CSS page-break-whatever properties being ignored by ACCESS.
OK, that I understand. I can't say I've tried them enough to know where and when they do and don't work.
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Either I've missed something recent or you are not remembering it. The last time you posted that RMSDK had been updated in the FW release thread it was made, I performed some dumb tests and I uploaded some pictures of my Kobo showing strange W&O control. IIRC in the previous page there was a blank free space which could have allowed at least one line more of the next page paragraph, and of course the paragraph was long enough in that second page. I'll dig the exact post. (And of course it wasn't that W&O values were 5...)
I remember lots of arguing about it. I suppose I don't really remember the result. But, when I get a gap at the bottom of the screen and think it could fit another line, when I have a closer look, I usually decide that there wasn't quite enough space. That's excluding the occasional problem where the last line of a chapter is on a new page, and I haven't seen that much lately.
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Old 04-16-2015, 02:28 AM   #460
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Widows and orphans are disabled in kepubs and sometimes buggy in epubs.
Widows and orphans work. But I don't like then, so I set them to a value of 1 and that urns them off.
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Well I am pretty much sold on the new Glo HD as a replacement for my Kobo Touch (which BTW I am nothing but happy about), but it would be nice to see the light functionality "in action" ... But I don't doubt it will work just fine since this won't be the first model for Kobo with the backlight implementation ...
My H2O uses the same generation Carta screen and the FRONT light works very well. No color shifts at all.
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Old 04-16-2015, 02:35 AM   #462
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Either I've missed something recent or you are not remembering it. The last time you posted that RMSDK had been updated in the FW release thread it was made, I performed some dumb tests and I uploaded some pictures of my Kobo showing strange W&O control. IIRC in the previous page there was a blank free space which could have allowed at least one line more of the next page paragraph, and of course the paragraph was long enough in that second page. I'll dig the exact post. (And of course it wasn't that W&O values were 5...)
That could have been the long paragraph bug causing the problem. The long paragraph bug has been fixed. Besides, nobody uses widow & orphan values of 5.
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That could have been the long paragraph bug causing the problem. The long paragraph bug has been fixed. Besides, nobody uses widow & orphan values of 5.
If you read what arspr said, the discussion happened after the RMSDK was updated to fix the long paragraph bug. And if I read the post correct he is saying it wasn't set to 5. But, he might have been using 5 as a test case. As to no-one uses 5, I've found a couple of books with 4, so I am sure someone out there thinks 5 is a good setting.
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No, JSWolf. W&O don't work at all in kepubs. Test it if you want.

They USUALLY work in epubs. But you can get cases when the W&O control is not behaving fine. Or at least it happened some FWs ago when I tested it. As I said I'll try to dig for my last post about it later.

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I've found the post I was mentioning. It was in FW 3.5.0 thread.
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I thought I must be doing something wrong with the PW search when I first got it, I can't believe how bad the search is on Kindles. It's another reason it'll never be the reader I actually use.


Kobo really needs to change that 100 limit, it's the one thing that cripples their search. Other than that limit, it's much better than the Kindles, but not quite as good as the Sonys (I still wish for a PRS-350 with a front light! ).
I don't understand--I just did a search within the book on both my Kindle Voyage and my Aura HD. In both cases it opened a new page with a list of the instances of the word, with a little bit of surrounding text and the location of the word in the book. In what way is the Kindle search different from the Kobo?

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