Aura H2O Kobo arrived today

[effnflowers]

Originally Posted by meeera

Mine stays at 19-20 most of the time. Glad to see you've figured it out.

Thanks for letting me know your settings.

I've settled on 19-20 as well. 20 during the day and 19 at night. If only it was easier to change the brightness by 1%.

[meeera]

Originally Posted by effnflowers

Thanks for letting me know your settings.

I've settled on 19-20 as well. 20 during the day and 19 at night. If only it was easier to change the brightness by 1%.

It is - install the patch and a single click right or left of the brightness bar will change it 1%.

[Sweetpea]

Originally Posted by effnflowers

Lowering the brightness seems to help a little. What brightness setting do other H2O users run when reading during the day in a well lit room? I'm at 28.

I always have it at 7%. When turning night-mode on (colours are reversed) I have just enough contrast to read, without being too much blinded by it, and during the day I don't see the backlight at all. It's only when I'm in a lit room that is not well-lit, will I turn up the backlight a bit.

Originally Posted by meeera

It is - install the patch and a single click right or left of the brightness bar will change it 1%.

What patch is that?

[meeera]

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

What patch is that?

Have a look in the Kobo Developer's Corner.

(ps: it's a frontlight. E-ink displays can't be backlit; they're opaque.)

[Sweetpea]

Originally Posted by meeera

Have a look in the Kobo Developer's Corner.

(ps: it's a frontlight. E-ink displays can't be backlit; they're opaque.)

I knew somebody would say that... I know it's a frontlight, but I'll still call it a backlight. Simply because if I say frontlight, everybody I know will think it's a clip-on light. Somebody who knows nothing about ereaders except that you can read on it, will not know nor see the difference between a layer beneath the text layer or a layer on top of the text layer.

And I did look in the developer's corner, but I don't see anything about a patch.

[meeera]

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

And I did look in the developer's corner, but I don't see anything about a patch.

The first two stickies are about the patches.

[Sweetpea]

Originally Posted by meeera

The first two stickies are about the patches.

Why would I want to read about how to update my devices with the firmware? I just turn on the wifi and it updates... I must be dense or something, because I thought you meant there was a small patch like with the nightmode switching (https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=257246)

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by effnflowers

You were right about the afterimages. After doing additional testing it is an issue with my eyes. Thanks for suggesting it, as the rows would have driven me crazy otherwise.

Lowering the brightness seems to help a little. What brightness setting do other H2O users run when reading during the day in a well lit room? I'm at 28.

Thanks again.

In a well lit room, I have the light off. Why use the light when you don't need to? All it does is eat at the battery for no good reason. A well lit room needs no light. Also in sunlight I do not use the light.

In the dark in bed, I use 4%. But, the font I am using is my modified Charis SIL called ChareInk. It has enough weight to it that I don't need to up it with the advanced font controls. Plus it's a very nice looking font on an eInk screen.

Clipped onto the headboard of the bed is a nice flex neck LED lamp that I can use to point at the screen for reading when I don't need the light on in the bedroom with the LED lamp.

I'm not one of those types that keeps the light on all the time. There's no need The Carta screen has good contrast and with a Kobo, you can adjust the font weight so you won't always need the light on. Plus there is a patch to allow advanced font control to work with side loaded TTF fonts.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

And I did look in the developer's corner, but I don't see anything about a patch.

Here is the thread to patch firmware 3.19.5761.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=269574

[meeera]

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

Why would I want to read about how to update my devices with the firmware?

I was replying to effnflowers, who said "If only it was easier to change the brightness by 1%. " The patch is the way to make that happen (as well as a bunch of other neat things). If you don't want it, don't read about it, I guess? *shrug*

[Sweetpea]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Here is the thread to patch firmware 3.19.5761.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=269574

After reading that thread, I think the title is confusing. I saw the title and thought it was simply a thread about the firmware. Not about a patch you can put on top of that firmware.

Originally Posted by meeera

I was replying to effnflowers, who said "If only it was easier to change the brightness by 1%. " The patch is the way to make that happen (as well as a bunch of other neat things). If you don't want it, don't read about it, I guess? *shrug*

I would love that brightness thing, but I don't care about the rest of that patch...

[Blossom]

you don't want advance font control where you can change the weight of your fonts? For me this is what makes a Kobo special.

Sent from my XT1528

[effnflowers]

Originally Posted by meeera

It is - install the patch and a single click right or left of the brightness bar will change it 1%.

Thanks for the tip, now that's a good reason for me to dig in to the firmware patches. I'm trying to decide how to organize the library so the series info will be useful, I'm thinking collections by author, but once I finish that I'll check out the firmware patch stickies.

Thanks again

[effnflowers]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

In a well lit room, I have the light off. Why use the light when you don't need to? All it does is eat at the battery for no good reason. A well lit room needs no light. Also in sunlight I do not use the light.

In the dark in bed, I use 4%. But, the font I am using is my modified Charis SIL called ChareInk. It has enough weight to it that I don't need to up it with the advanced font controls. Plus it's a very nice looking font on an eInk screen.

Clipped onto the headboard of the bed is a nice flex neck LED lamp that I can use to point at the screen for reading when I don't need the light on in the bedroom with the LED lamp.

I'm not one of those types that keeps the light on all the time. There's no need The Carta screen has good contrast and with a Kobo, you can adjust the font weight so you won't always need the light on. Plus there is a patch to allow advanced font control to work with side loaded TTF fonts.

I prefer the whiter background hence the 20% setting. At least 20 is better than the 65, that gave me eye strain, I was running when I first got it.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by effnflowers

I prefer the whiter background hence the 20% setting. At least 20 is better than the 65, that gave me eye strain, I was running when I first got it.

I don't pay attention to the background. I pay attention to the words.