Aura ONE Kobo Aura One owners thread

[Mingyar]

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

(...)
Problem is, I can read French (with difficulty), but I can't make myself understood in the language... (...)

Toujours un plaisir d'être lu et compris dans sa langue maternelle
De mon côté, avec un anglais scolaire, je fais ce que je peux pour comprendre ce qui se dit ici et pour exprimer au mieux mes messages en anglais.
On a tous nos petits problèmes dans cette tour de Babel qu'est Internet

[Katsunami]

When you're under 40, I consider not being able to speak, read and write English properly to be a huge handicap, especially if you work in a technical profession.

My field is embedded/industrial software engineering. I once had to adjust some stuff in a machine.... and it was programmed in French. Including the use of accents....

FOR i = 1 to 10 DO
(* Some French comments *)
(French function and variable names in here)
END_FOR

IMHO, if you write software for stuff that is sold internationally (and has to be maintained by people other than the original manufacturer, in case of custom machinery), you're a *complete idiot* if you *don't* write that stuff in English.

But yeah... that's off-topic here.

[Katsunami]

I just resumed reading my 300 page book. The reader's almost drained, and the book has clocked 28.5 hours. Obviously, the sleep cover failed again, and this is the original €50 cover. This is just irritating. With regard to reliability, the KA1 is MUCH worse than my old KPW1.

The only problem the KPW1 ever had was that for some books, at some point, it would just cut Time To Read in half for no apparent reason.

The only two things actually keeping this reader this long is the large screen and the calibre collections integration.

[Mingyar]

Originally Posted by Katsunami

When you're under 40 (...) you're a *complete idiot* if you *don't* write that stuff in English.
(...)

I'm older than 40 !
(French humour)

[Barty]

Originally Posted by Mingyar

Toujours un plaisir d'être lu et compris dans sa langue maternelle
De mon côté, avec un anglais scolaire, je fais ce que je peux pour comprendre ce qui se dit ici et pour exprimer au mieux mes messages en anglais.
On a tous nos petits problèmes dans cette tour de Babel qu'est Internet

Hey I understood all that, I just can't chance saying anything in response

[Sweetpea]

Originally Posted by Barty

Hey I understood all that, I just can't chance saying anything in response

I understood words (and maybe the gist of it), but my response is simple: Je ne parle pas Francais, vous parlez Anglais?

Don't mind the spelling, it's been waaaaaaaaay too long since I've had French at school :P I just type like how I would pronounce it

One thing I never could understand (nor get used to) is that some words are capitalized and languages never... (while countries are).

[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

One thing I never could understand (nor get used to) is that some words are capitalized and languages never... (while countries are).

I've never understood why language are capitalized (they are not in Spanish )

[ratinox]

Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan

I've never understood why language are capitalized (they are not in Spanish )

The names of languages are proper nouns which are always capitalized in English.

[Katsunami]

Yesterday I updated the KA1 to firmware 8432. Today I've seen the first blue screen since 1996 that was not caused by a faulty/buggy display driver. The computer blue-screened as soon as I tapped the "Connect" button on the KA1 after connecting it to the computer. (FYI, it's the stock firmware with no patches installed.)

A fracking e-reader, which basically is a USB mass storage device, crashed my computer.

That's just unbelievable.. I'm getting close to calling the KA1's firmware a piece of junk.

[Iñigo]

Originally Posted by Katsunami

A fracking e-reader, which basically is a USB mass storage device, crashed my computer.

If a simple ereader which basically is an USB mass storage device crashes your computer... then maybe the problem is your computer, not the ereader.

[Katsunami]

Originally Posted by Iñigo

If a simple ereader which basically is an USB mass storage device crashes your computer... then maybe the problem is your computer, not the ereader.

What lunacy is this remark?

I can count my computer crashes in the last 20 years on the fingers of one hand, and all of them were caused by buggy display drivers.

Read the thread. The KA1 has USB connectivity problems on Windows 10 since the Anniversary Update last year, where *no other device* has been affected.

The number of USB-sticks, external hard drives, phones, and a plethora of other devices I use with this computer is staggering, and none of them ever failed to connect; not before, and not after the Anniversary update.

[Gone]

Originally Posted by Katsunami

Read the thread. The KA1 has USB connectivity problems on Windows 10 since the Anniversary Update last year, where *no other device* has been affected.

Install Linux or get a Mac.

[Katsunami]

Originally Posted by Claude_C

Install Linux or get a Mac.

Another stupid remark. The KA1 is the only USB device I have that has problems constantly, so it's the only device at fault. If the problem was with windows, other devices would have had problems.

[Iñigo]

Originally Posted by Katsunami

Read the thread. The KA1 has USB connectivity problems on Windows 10 since the Anniversary Update last year, where *no other device* has been affected.

So you say the problem first appeared with Windows 10 Anniversary Edition... not before... not other Windows, not even previous Windows 10 editions...

I've read exactly 0 people having USB issues with Linux, Apple or any Windows computer before Windows 10 Anniversary Edition, but the problem is caused by the Kobo device... of course!

[Katsunami]

The Kobo device is the only device to have problems after the Anniversary Update.

Microsoft changed/fixed something. No devices have problems with that, only the KA1. It means the KA1 is doing something it shouldn't be doing.

That, together with all the battery problems, syncing issues, and even the official sleep cover not always shutting down the reader, makes the KA1 a highly unreliable device. I'm seriously thinking (again) to pick up my old Kindle again.