Firmware 4.16.13337

[MGlitch]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Am I the only one that wishes the information on the header and footer were swapped? Having the book info on the bottom and the chapter info at the top seems weird.

I suspect the change has to do with the new progress bar at the bottom, so I understand the rationale. But it still looks weird.

Or if they let you decide where this information was placed. So have a header and footer setting and within those each would have every option available. Sure you could end up with the same info as both but you could just change it to something else if you didn’t want that.

Maybe this or some semblance of this can be done in a patch

[Knightreader]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Am I the only one that wishes the information on the header and footer were swapped?

For me it's ok. Most printed books show the page numbers at the bottom of pages (for the whole book). Now we have an additional page counter for chapters at the top.

[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by kyôdai

Are there any changes to how the page numbers are calculated?

I am still hoping for dynamic page numbers for the entire book. (So far this is only possible per chapter in kepubs.)

No, as far as I see (I´ll check more in detail after davidfor's comment, but I thought that the number of page in the book didn´t change atfer advancing a page).

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by rashkae

the table of contents Icon is at the very bottom left when you have the controls open/visible.. It also displays the current chapter name.

The full chapter title can be tapped.

[MGlitch]

Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan

No, as far as I see (I´ll check more in detail after davidfor's comment, but I thought that the number of page in the book didn´t change atfer advancing a page).

Keep in mind he’s using a version we don’t have access to some things may be different, one big difference appears to be how disabling header and footer information is rendered.

[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by MGlitch

Keep in mind he’s using a version we don’t have access to some things may be different, one big difference appears to be how disabling header and footer information is rendered.

I've thought about it later, yes. In any case, the current buggy version that is available is OK for me

[IanScuffling]

Works fine on my Aura HD. Footer is way too big, as others have reported, and the header is a little too big, too.

[DrChiper]

Just curious: Does this fw version fixes the toc problem of fw 4.15.12920?

[JIPG-reader]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Am I the only one that wishes the information on the header and footer were swapped? Having the book info on the bottom and the chapter info at the top seems weird.

I suspect the change has to do with the new progress bar at the bottom, so I understand the rationale. But it still looks weird.

Maybe I am the only one, but for me, the new configuration of header and footer is "crowded" and looks weird, in the sense that in FW 4.15 it was cleaner (title above and page number below, well centred and identifiable), and now, specially when the title/chapter name is long, the header and footer seem to be two lines more of the text, been difficult to find at a glance the number of the page, for instance.

I think this should be configurable, and if finally it is not, I would like to have a patch to leave the header and footer as they are now.

[mathil]

I tried the firmware on my H2O v.1 and it's working fine so far, isn't particularly slow. In regards to fullscreen reading, I usually read kepub with the footer hidden and to me, the current space left at the bottom looks perfect - it's exactly what I patch it to be, so I'm very pleased with the result. Once the new firmware version with the smaller space at the top will be in, I think that it will please the vast majority of users - it's aesthetically pleasing now, at least, compared to before when the margins were truly too big no matter how you looked at it. I know that some people like to patch it so that the text goes right to the bezel of the screen but as that is made of a small minority of people and it wouldn't exactly improve readability (though I do realize that preferences exist - I'm not questioning that), I think they've made the right choice.

[mathieulh]

I just updated my Kobo Forma to that firmware, it works great.

[johnnydarko]

Is there an option to turn off the Book Title in the footer, so it can display ONLY the current page number / total pages? I prefer the minimalism of only having the numbers.

[rashkae]

A question for Davidfor, who has seen the future and is apparently no longer gagged.

Now that Kobo is displaying page number for whole book by default, does it look like they will fix the wonky page numbering in books that don't have carefully crafted TOC? (I mean, while they were re-working how pages are counted anyhow, have a properly working progress bar, and needed to fix the TOC issues in Epub, might as well fit in correct current page..)

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by rashkae

A question for Davidfor, who has seen the future and is apparently no longer gagged.

Now that Kobo is displaying page number for whole book by default, does it look like they will fix the wonky page numbering in books that don't have carefully crafted TOC? (I mean, while they were re-working how pages are counted anyhow, have a properly working progress bar, and needed to fix the TOC issues in Epub, might as well fit in correct current page..)

I haven't noticed any problems with the page numbering. But, most of my sideloaded books have been edited to fix the ToC. Just had a look at some purchased books that didn't have most of the front matter in the ToC. One is an omnibus where some of the front and back matter for the books is not in the ToC and a few longer files aren't as well. I didn't see any page numbering issues like before.

[Knightreader]

Originally Posted by johnnydarko

Is there an option to turn off the Book Title in the footer?

No, maybe it'll be possible via a Patch.