Firmware 4.23.15505

[compurandom]

Originally Posted by koboy

all i need now is the option to be able to sort collections by recent like you can with authors/books

?????

That's been in every single firmware revision since I bought my first kobo.
I use that heavily.

[John Hopper]

Originally Posted by compurandom

?????



That's been in every single firmware revision since I bought my first kobo.

I use that heavily.

Perhaps he meant sorting the whole collection list, rather than sorting within a collection?

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[koboy]

Originally Posted by John Hopper

Perhaps he meant sorting the whole collection list, rather than sorting within a collection?

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indeed i do.

best wishes koboy

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by koboy

indeed i do.

best wishes koboy

There is sort by date created. Admittedly since I have a massive two collections (Finished and Shortlist), it's not a matter I feel is very important. I gave up on collections when I realized that I had too many collections to make them useful. Search is a much better tool when you realize that you have over 200 pages of collections.

[koboy]

Originally Posted by DNSB

There is sort by date created. Admittedly since I have a massive two collections (Finished and Shortlist), it's not a matter I feel is very important. I gave up on collections when I realized that I had too many collections to make them useful. Search is a much better tool when you realize that you have over 200 pages of collections.

i use multiply collections all the time it's the main reason why i still use the old tiled home screen/firmware. if i could sort the whole collection list by recent like it can be done when in authors or books the trade off would be worth upgrading to the latest firmware.

best wishes koboy

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by koboy

i use multiply collections all the time it's the main reason why i still use the old tiled home screen/firmware. if i could sort the whole collection list by recent like it can be done when in authors or books the trade off would be worth upgrading to the latest firmware.

best wishes koboy

As I said, I had too many pages of collections to make them worth using. Cutting the number of collections gave me collections that were too large to use as a collection of several hundred books is pretty much useless.

As I've mentioned often enough, search is, for my uses, a superior solution. Hence, my current 1 personal collection and 1 Kobo supplied collection situation.

[John Hopper]

Originally Posted by DNSB

I gave up on collections when I realized that I had too many collections to make them useful. Search is a much better tool when you realize that you have over 200 pages of collections.

Wow, I have 8 pages of collections and I thought that was quite a lot.

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[DNSB]

Originally Posted by John Hopper

Wow, I have 8 pages of collections and I thought that was quite a lot.

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Currently, my Clara HD has 11K+ books with 3467 authors, 3001 series, etc. So yeah, collections stopped working long ago. Why do I have that many books on my Clara HD? Mostly just to see if I can. My Forma is limited by the amount of storage but even so I currently have about 3500 books on it.

[koboy]

Originally Posted by DNSB

As I said, I had too many pages of collections to make them worth using. Cutting the number of collections gave me collections that were too large to use as a collection of several hundred books is pretty much useless.

As I've mentioned often enough, search is, for my uses, a superior solution. Hence, my current 1 personal collection and 1 Kobo supplied collection situation.

with the greatest respect as i've already said more than once (i) do use collections. let's say for example i have 300 collections what's wrong with wanting to sort that list by most recently used? the option is already available for author and books so why not for collections.

please explain to me how does using the search function help me quickly access the most recent 10 collections i've opened from my entire collections list of 35 pages?

i wouldn't dismiss any new added feature/option just because i personally wasn't going to use it.

best wishes koboy

[MustardOrMayo]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

The old home screen was a mess. You select something so it changes what's displayed and what you are looking for may no longer be in the same place as it was. The size could have changed. It was very inconsistent and sloppy and could have been (for some) hard to find things.

Originally Posted by JSWolf

The old tiled home screen was not all that good for a lot of people. You know where your tile was, but it's moved and changed size. So you have to go look for it and it may not be that easy to some. When you think about it, the tiled home screen was a mess. It needed some serious fixing. All the tiles needed to be the same size. There needed to be a pin to home so the tile stays in the same place until it's no longer needed. because the book or collection was removed.

Yeah, I don't like the 3.x firmware for that reason, and I'm glad Kobo did away with that.

Originally Posted by JSWolf

While the new UI looks more sparse, it's easier to use for more people. The updated design is not a mess. It's taking advantage of the wasted space.

I didn't think of it that way! I've updated all 4 of my Kobo e-readers, and am getting used to it!

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Most of the complaints of PVM is from people who read that it flickers but don't see any flicker but complain anyway.

Originally Posted by DNSB

I found the complaints about PWM at best amusing. The Forma uses 1KHz modulation for PWM. I could not find any reputable research showing that any human being could notice the flicker from PWM at that rate. The highest numbers I found were statements that a few people appeared to be able to notice flicker at a PWM rate of 400Hz during saccades (rapid eye movements).

Another study which tested people's ability to notice flicker due to PWM showed that the overwhelming majority of the people who complained about the flicker from a 400Hz source also complained about the flicker from a DC source (the testees did not know that there were two different light sources involved to eliminate placebo effects). Admittedly, this test was based on testing people's reactions to PWM car tail lights but the principle is the same.

Thanks for the correction!

Originally Posted by DNSB

As for adding an external card slot? Wanna buy a bridge? Only slightly used!

Sure! I forgot that 8 GB is enough, at least for me.

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

If they made the scrollbar wider it would've been better than the 'tapping and then inserting page number' being the only option. That obviously was designed for the newer Kobos with the page turn buttons.

Originally Posted by davidfor

Why do you miss the horizontal swipes? They still work in exactly the same way as all previous firmware versions. Nothing has changed about swiping to turn the page in the various lists.

Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!! I didn't know I could do that! However, I do still miss the "Go to page" prompt, which was useful for navigating through my wish-list.

Originally Posted by afakler

Is it possible to have something else than 'discover' on the homescreens bottom line? Maybe 'activity'?

Apart from this, I can live with the new design. It isn't so bad.

I too am hoping that Kobo adds an option to allow the bottom navigation to be customised in one way or another, as I want to add the Pocket "My Articles" menu in between "My Books" and "Discover".

[koboy]

Originally Posted by John Hopper

Wow, I have 8 pages of collections and I thought that was quite a lot.

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if i had 200 pages of collections being able to sort the list by the one's most recently used would be extremely useful/essential.

best wishes koboy

[the.Mtn.Man]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Currently, my Clara HD has 11K+ books with 3467 authors, 3001 series, etc. So yeah, collections stopped working long ago. Why do I have that many books on my Clara HD? Mostly just to see if I can. My Forma is limited by the amount of storage but even so I currently have about 3500 books on it.

Wow, and I thought my nearly 600 epubs (and many of those are multi-volume collections, so the number of individual books is probably closer to 800) was excessive.

[koboy]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Currently, my Clara HD has 11K+ books with 3467 authors, 3001 series, etc. So yeah, collections stopped working long ago. Why do I have that many books on my Clara HD? Mostly just to see if I can. My Forma is limited by the amount of storage but even so I currently have about 3500 books on it.

does the Clara have the original 8GB of storage?

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by koboy

with the greatest respect as i've already said more than once (i) do use collections. let's say for example i have 300 collections what's wrong with wanting to sort that list by most recently used? the option is already available for author and books so why not for collections.

I suspect adding, debugging and testing the functionality to allow sorting collections by last access time would not be worth the number of people who would consider such a function useful. The database does have a field for last modified and last accessed time in the Shelf table so most of the work on that end has been done however an index for the last accessed/modified time would need to be added.

Originally Posted by koboy

please explain to me how does using the search function help me quickly access the most recent 10 collections i've opened from my entire collections list of 35 pages?

I don't search for collections. I search for authors, titles, series, the occasional Kobo store book, the occasional library book. As mentioned all too often, I found collections un-useful when I made them granular enough to be worth having.

Originally Posted by koboy

i wouldn't dismiss any new added feature/option just because i personally wasn't going to use it.

Not just I personally would not use it. It's also that I don't see that the number of people who would use that functionality is sufficient to justify the development cost.

And because I can't resist... a new keyboard with a functional shift key would keep you from appearing to be the re-incarnation of e.e. cummings. Though it was tempting to type my entire response to you in UPPER CASE.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by koboy

does the Clara have the original 8GB of storage?

Nope. It has a 32GB replacement uSD card. I like playing with my toys.

I actually did look at how many books I could stuff into the just over 6GB available with the stock 8GB uSD card. Mostly, this was done by reducing the cover size since in many of my epubs, the cover is a large chunk of the size. For my testing I went with 250xYYY (most of my covers are either 3x4 or 10x15 aspect ratio). I tried the Resize cover calibre plugin but was not happy with the results so I used a batch file to run Imageworsener with the height set to x0.25, convert to greyscale, etc. against a copy of my calibre library. I managed to stuff about 8000 epubs into the available space before the .kobo-images folder growth which I hadn't allowed for caused me to run low on space. The entire project took me longer than expected since I got into playing with dithering algorithms and the effects they had on the output.

The final batch file simply stepped through my calibre library and ran imageworsener against each cover file. After that was done, I used Modify Epub to embed the covers.

imagew.exe -grayscale -depthgray 4 -h x0.25 -cc 16 -gsf s -dither sierralite .\cover.jpg .\cover_sierralite.jpg
del cover.jpg
ren cover_sierralite.jpg cover.jpg

Edit: I've attached a sample of the original cover, the full size grayscale cover and the shrunken grayscale cover for one ebook. The ebook went from 1063KiB to 391KiB when the shrunken cover was used.