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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: NE Oregon
Device: Kobo Sage, Pocketbook Era, Kobo Forma, Kindle Oasis 2
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On the weight, it feels similar to my Aura HD, but over time, it does bother me more to hold it one-handed. This might be an issue of balance or grip, I've always loved the 'folded paper' back of the HD because it gives me such a nice grip and fits my hand so well. I expect I'll get used to the ONE though. Either that, or I'll use two hands to hold it or a stand. The comfort light is more orange at the top and a bit greeny on the bottom half of the screen, but doesn't appear blotchy, so I think I can live with it. I don't like the light adjustment, compared to my Aura HD it is very twitchy and fiddly to set whether using the finger slide action on the left OR through the menu slider. You'd think it would be the opposite with the capacitative screen! Hoping they address that in a future update! Because I love the finger slide to change the light on my Aura HD. One thing I'm VERY concerned over is battery life. I let it charge the full 4 hours recommended, and then I put a few books on and proceeded to read. I read 2 books the same day it arrived, Dorothy L. Sayers 'Striding Folly' (3 short Peter Wimsey tales) and then 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child', which wasn't terribly long, and being a screenplay, less meaty than most books of similar page count. After setting the reader up, I turned WiFi off, and after experiencing the vagaries of the auto brightness sensor, I went to manual. When I woke up the next day, my battery was at 49%. No problem, while not ideal, I had been playing with the reader, and reading quite a bit. Plus it's a new battery and it usually takes a few charges before you get the best battery life. BUT, I did not have time to read yesterday AT ALL! I was shoveling snow! I thought about putting the reader on the charger after checking it, but decided I could just read before bed as 49% seemed enough of a charge for that purpose, then charge it fully overnight. That was not to be, however, because when I went for the reader at bed time, the battery was FULLY DRAINED! Obviously this is a huge concern, because I thought they'd fixed that in the firmware and I am running the latest firmware! 49% to ZERO with no reading having taken place is NOT cool! Sent from my Pixel C using Tapatalk |
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Junior Member
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Karma: 88064
Join Date: Jan 2017
Device: Koba Aura one
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So I finally ordered the Aura One from Indigo Chapters yesterday. While I wait, is there any way to open PDFs from cloud services like Dropbox or Google Drive? Or do I have to drag and drop through a USB cable every time. Thanks.
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#1023 |
Lucifer's Bat
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Karma: 20638583
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Earth/Berlin
Device: Kobo Libra Colour
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Lucifer's Bat
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Earth/Berlin
Device: Kobo Libra Colour
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If I remember correctly there was someone in this thread having the same problem and I think they solved it with a hard reset and putting the new firmware on once again. But before you try this, please make sure my memory doesn't fail me and search the thread. Or ask David For, he is my hero and seems to know everything about the Kobos. And he is a really nice guy who answers asap :-) |
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Grand Sorcerer
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Sydney, Australia
Device: Kobo:Touch,Glo, AuraH2O, GloHD,AuraONE, ClaraHD, Libra H2O; tolinoepos
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![]() But, yes, make sure the Aura ONE is on the 4.2.x firmware. If it is still using battery rapidly, do a factory reset and the setup again. This will include the update to 4.2 without stepping through the intermediate firmware. Some of the battery issues have stuck with some devices even when the update was installed. The factory reset will solve this. |
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Davidfor's friend 😊
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Karma: 284140
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: U.K
Device: Libra 2
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Lucifer's Bat
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Earth/Berlin
Device: Kobo Libra Colour
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#1028 |
Grand Sorcerer
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Device: KPW1, KA1
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Hey... in the game Jade Empire, the character Black Whirlwind uses an axe to divide a maiden between two warring clan chiefs. As the maiden was the cause of the war, there was now peace.
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Lucifer's Bat
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Earth/Berlin
Device: Kobo Libra Colour
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Davidfor's friend 😊
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Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: U.K
Device: Libra 2
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Grand Sorcerer
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Karma: 12595249
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Madrid, Spain
Device: Kobo Clara/Aura One/Forma,XiaoMI 5, iPad, Huawei MediaPad, YotaPhone 2
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![]() Enviado desde mi MI 5 mediante Tapatalk |
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Grand Sorcerer
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Karma: 34000001
Join Date: Mar 2008
Device: KPW1, KA1
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It's one of the reasons why I'll always keep the latest working firmware on hand, because the Kobo Extended driver is the only way a Kobo is usable for me by converting books to KEPUB in the background while injecting CSS to fix the full screen problem. Probably, converting to KEPUB in combination with firmware patches to fix the full screen bugs will also also work, but the KEPUB output plugin is also a piece of software started by jguoguen. I don't know its current status. I always find it so strange that there are billions of people in this world, and still many open source projects basically run on one man/woman, apart from a bit of help here or there. Even though I don't write code for the open source community, I try to contribute a bit by compiling the latest versions of several Go and Chess engines, that would otherwise either be available on Linux, or be very far behind on Windows (as some engines need fixes or changes to actually compile and run on Windows). Still, to be honest, if I didn't play Go or Chess, I wouldn't be compiling those engines either... |
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Wizard
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Karma: 11722446
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: NE Oregon
Device: Kobo Sage, Pocketbook Era, Kobo Forma, Kindle Oasis 2
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I got it off the charger and read some last night, so far, so good with the battery, was at 79% this AM. I do like how the auto setting works for the comfort light, so have left that be for now. I'll see how the battery behaves over the next few days. I can live with having to charge it more frequently than the Aura HD, I just don't want sudden battery drains happening! Sent from my Pixel C using Tapatalk |
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Wizard
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Karma: 11722446
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: NE Oregon
Device: Kobo Sage, Pocketbook Era, Kobo Forma, Kindle Oasis 2
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I sure like the new screen size! And the comfort light really is more comfortable on my eyes at night! Sent from my Pixel C using Tapatalk |
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#1035 |
Grand Sorcerer
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Device: KPW1, KA1
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I like the fact that you can put a bit of red in the light. I always found the KPW1 light too blue when reading with a very low ambient light level. I can't use the auto night time mode, becuase the light gets way too orange, or I'll have to put my bed time at 3 o'clock or something... but then I can see the color shifting, and I don't like that either.
So, I've chosen to just use the 'Natural Light' slider as a blue-orange adjustment ![]() Battery life with my KA1 is now OK. After two days and a bit of reading, it's now at 97% percent after coming off the charger. If it drops 1-2% in 24 hours when not in use, I'm very happy as it will last 50-100 days before it's drained. That would be comparable or possibly even better than my Kindle Paperwhite 1 at the beginning. (Now that one drains faster, but the battery is four years old obviously; but it's still very usable.) Last edited by Katsunami; 01-14-2017 at 03:20 PM. |
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