Clara 2E Kobo Clara 2E Thread - Page 13

christianbk · 09-24-2022, 10:54 PM

Received and liking this little device. Only other six inch devices I've owned have been older Kindles, the Kindle Voyage, Pocketbook Color, and a Nook GlowLight 4.

Kobo does grippy backs of devices well, so suffice to say this device also hits in terms of that feeling.

Definitely also see the "two dots" when you angle the screen to see below the bezel. Not bothersome as I not often look at the screen that way, but thought I'd mention it.

The use case for this device is a unique one for me. I've been using a Sage as my at-home reader currently. I'm going to be using the Clara 2e as my reader when picking up my daughters from school and have some time to kill... so it's primarily going to be in my vehicle. It will be without a cover, as I hope to be able to subject it to weather (such as rain - waterproofing and all) and still have the device work well.

noraa · 09-25-2022, 01:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BartKobo

Just got my Kobo Clara 2E as well, don't have any front light issues.
I was wondering, is KOReader already supported? Has anyone tested it?
I think it should be supported given that every Kobo reader uses the same base OS, but there could be some device specific quirks.
Thanks for any reply

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Just got my Clara 2E and immediately installed KOReader. Unfortunately, while it installed without issue, it won't actually run. Upon opening it I immediately get a crash error, specifically that it is running on an unsupported model.

My guess is that the KOReader just needs a simple update to recognize the Clara 2E as a support model, probably nothing more complicated than that.

JSWolf · 09-25-2022, 06:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by noraa

Just got my Clara 2E and immediately installed KOReader. Unfortunately, while it installed without issue, it won't actually run. Upon opening it I immediately get a crash error, specifically that it is running on an unsupported model.

My guess is that the KOReader just needs a simple update to recognize the Clara 2E as a support model, probably nothing more complicated than that.

Before installing something like KOReader, you should check to see if it is compatible with a new Kobo. I had to wait before I could install KOReader on my Libra 2.

rtiangha · 09-25-2022, 10:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

It's still an i.MX6SLL

.

(So, basically, it's a Libra 2 with a different screen and shell).

Question: Is that (or the CPUs in Sage or Elipsa) 64 bit? I'm looking at the (I assume) bugged kobo6 update package that also includes the Bluetooth and stylus stuff, and I noticed the foxit library file name has _linux64 at the end. Are those things running 64 bit kernels? If I were to flash the full version of the update rather than the one I manually stripped myself, would Foxit actually run on my Glo HD?

NiLuJe · 09-25-2022, 11:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jackie_w

When you say 'different screen' do you just mean different size (WxH pixels) or something quality-related?

Whoops, good point, edited for clarity. (I meant dimensions; AFAIK, both are using a Carta 1200 or whatever the actual name is ;p).

NiLuJe · 09-25-2022, 11:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rtiangha

Question: Is that (or the CPUs in Sage or Elipsa) 64 bit? I'm looking at the (I assume) bugged kobo6 update package that also includes the Bluetooth and stylus stuff, and I noticed the foxit library file name has _linux64 at the end. Are those things running 64 bit kernels? If I were to flash the full version of the update rather than the one I manually stripped myself, would Foxit actually run on my Glo HD?

Nope, aarch32 on both.

The Sage/Elipsa run on an AllWinner B300 (4x Cortex A7 @ 1.8GHz)
The rest of the Mk7+ (possibly 6+, can never remember) devices run on an NXP i.MX 6SL(L) SoC (1x Cortex A9 @ 1GHz).

I'm not around the Sage right now, but I would guess the foxit stuff is an oversight, or just what it was *built* on (as opposed to what it was built *for*)

.

EDIT: I'm, err, not seeing anything wrong in the current kobo6 package, FWIW:

Code:

┌─(niluje@illyria:pts/9)─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────(/var/tmp/niluje)─┐
└─(0.27:34%:17:11:%)── tar tvzf KoboRoot.tgz| ag foxit                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 ──(Sun, Sep 25)─┘
-rw-r--r-- root/root        92 2020-12-14 16:54 ./usr/share/dbus-1/services/com.kobo.foxit.Search.service
-rw-r--r-- root/root        92 2020-12-17 01:10 ./usr/share/dbus-1/services/com.kobo.foxit.Parser.service
-rw-r--r-- root/root       102 2020-12-16 02:05 ./usr/share/dbus-1/services/com.kobo.foxit.Thumbnailer.service
-rw-r--r-- root/root        92 2020-12-14 16:54 ./usr/share/dbus-1/services/com.kobo.foxit.Reader.service
-rwxrwxr-x build/build   272136 2022-09-15 19:43 ./usr/local/Kobo/foxitpdf
-rwxrwxr-x build/build   283712 2022-09-15 19:43 ./usr/local/Kobo/libfoxitpdf.so
-rwxrwxr-x build/build      108 2022-09-15 19:43 ./usr/local/Kobo/foxitpdf-launcher.sh
┌─(niluje@illyria:pts/9)─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────(/var/tmp/niluje)─┐
└─(0.35:34%:17:12:%)── file ROOT/usr/local/Kobo/foxitpdf                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               ──(Sun, Sep 25)─┘
ROOT/usr/local/Kobo/foxitpdf: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, EABI5 version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3, for GNU/Linux 2.6.31, BuildID[sha1]=0f43165208b541ed27806f92d4d82fd6b095a7bc, stripped
┌─(niluje@illyria:pts/9)─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────(/var/tmp/niluje)─┐
└─(0.37:34%:17:12:%)── file ROOT/usr/local/Kobo/libfoxitpdf.so                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         ──(Sun, Sep 25)─┘
ROOT/usr/local/Kobo/libfoxitpdf.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, ARM, EABI5 version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, BuildID[sha1]=11d6eb6f14ead381d442c51eb73b9319215bfc93, stripped

Gone · 09-25-2022, 01:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Deobulakenyo

Why? A 300 ppi on a 32" screen would still have 300 pixels per inch like in a 6-inch 300 ppi screen. Larger screens that have the same ppi would have more pixels. It is not like TV resolutions where a 1080p screen would look better on a 32-inch screen than on a 65-inch screen with the same 1080p resolution.

You’re right.

I’m dumb.

rtiangha · 09-25-2022, 02:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

Nope, aarch32 on both.

EDIT: I'm, err, not seeing anything wrong in the current kobo6 package, FWIW:

Code:

┌─(niluje@illyria:pts/9)─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────(/var/tmp/niluje)─┐
└─(0.27:34%:17:11:%)── tar tvzf KoboRoot.tgz| ag foxit                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 ──(Sun, Sep 25)─┘
-rw-r--r-- root/root        92 2020-12-14 16:54 ./usr/share/dbus-1/services/com.kobo.foxit.Search.service
-rw-r--r-- root/root        92 2020-12-17 01:10 ./usr/share/dbus-1/services/com.kobo.foxit.Parser.service
-rw-r--r-- root/root       102 2020-12-16 02:05 ./usr/share/dbus-1/services/com.kobo.foxit.Thumbnailer.service
-rw-r--r-- root/root        92 2020-12-14 16:54 ./usr/share/dbus-1/services/com.kobo.foxit.Reader.service
-rwxrwxr-x build/build   272136 2022-09-15 19:43 ./usr/local/Kobo/foxitpdf
-rwxrwxr-x build/build   283712 2022-09-15 19:43 ./usr/local/Kobo/libfoxitpdf.so
-rwxrwxr-x build/build      108 2022-09-15 19:43 ./usr/local/Kobo/foxitpdf-launcher.sh
┌─(niluje@illyria:pts/9)─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────(/var/tmp/niluje)─┐
└─(0.35:34%:17:12:%)── file ROOT/usr/local/Kobo/foxitpdf                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               ──(Sun, Sep 25)─┘
ROOT/usr/local/Kobo/foxitpdf: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, EABI5 version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3, for GNU/Linux 2.6.31, BuildID[sha1]=0f43165208b541ed27806f92d4d82fd6b095a7bc, stripped
┌─(niluje@illyria:pts/9)─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────(/var/tmp/niluje)─┐
└─(0.37:34%:17:12:%)── file ROOT/usr/local/Kobo/libfoxitpdf.so                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         ──(Sun, Sep 25)─┘
ROOT/usr/local/Kobo/libfoxitpdf.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, ARM, EABI5 version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, BuildID[sha1]=11d6eb6f14ead381d442c51eb73b9319215bfc93, stripped

The problem is that I don't think the Foxit stuff, the Bluetooth stuff, and the stylus stuff is even supposed to be in the kobo6 package to begin with. At least, it wasn't in 4.33 and kobo7 never got it in 4.34 either. So either all the Mk6 devices have Bluetooth chips and active digitizers that we didn't know about, OR this might be a mistake?

Personally, I'm not even sure I can flash the stock kobo6 package on my Glo HD without running out of space as I only have 15 mb free (in part to replacing Georgia/Avenir with Kurinto and running your stock Kobo Stuff package); I manually removed all new files except for the storage and blkid stuff before flashing it. So I feel like kobo6 is packaged wrongly in 4.34.

Edit: I guess the file I was wondering about was libfsdk_linux64.so, but you're right; 32-bit compiled.

Code:

file libfsdk_linux64.so
libfsdk_linux64.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, ARM, EABI5 version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, BuildID[sha1]=502e9dd5723fab6c5cd9408b8382e5c8c8b4b568, stripped

Phil_C · 09-25-2022, 05:04 PM

Three previous fonts are gone from the Clara 2E: Caecilia, Gill Sans, Malabar. I did like to use Gill Sans sometimes.

Those three fonts still appear on the Clara HD, along with the two new Rakuten fonts.

rcentros · 09-26-2022, 01:55 AM

Out of curiosity, to those who own both the Clara HD and 2E, is the reading experience much different?

John F · 09-26-2022, 07:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Phil_C

Three previous fonts are gone from the Clara 2E: Caecilia, Gill Sans, Malabar. I did like to use Gill Sans sometimes.

Those three fonts still appear on the Clara HD, along with the two new Rakuten fonts.

That's a shame. Gil Sans is my goto font on the Kobos.

JSWolf · 09-26-2022, 08:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Phil_C

Three previous fonts are gone from the Clara 2E: Caecilia, Gill Sans, Malabar. I did like to use Gill Sans sometimes.

Those three fonts still appear on the Clara HD, along with the two new Rakuten fonts.

If you run Windows, you may have Gill Sans and can side load it.

Quoth · 09-26-2022, 08:37 AM

Apparently created in 1928 by Eric Gill
https://www.freebestfonts.com/gill-sans-font

You can't libel or slander the dead. At least in UK no-one can sue you. Eric Gill died in 1940.

Some people are refusing to distrubute or use Gill Sans or anything else by Eric Gill
This is why
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Gill
Warning, worse stuff in link than excerpt below which is bad:

Quote:

Although the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes Gill as ″the greatest artist-craftsman of the twentieth century: a letter-cutter and type designer of genius″, he remains a figure of considerable controversy following revelations of his sexual abuse of two of his daughters.

The old controversy of should we shun creative works of the past because the creator was a "monster"?

Deleted.

Sirtel · 09-26-2022, 08:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Quoth

Apparently created in 1928 by Eric Gill
https://www.freebestfonts.com/gill-sans-font

You can't libel or slander the dead. At least in UK no-one can sue you. Eric Gill died in 1940.

Some people are refusing to distrubute or use Gill Sans or anything else by Eric Gill
This is why
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Gill
Warning, worse stuff in link than excerpt below which is bad:

The old controversy of should we shun creative works of the past because the creator was a "monster"?

If the creator is dead, I don't care what they've done. I'll judge their works separately from the author's life, deeds and misdeeds.

After all, no one is perfect and we all have done things we regret (or should). Of course abuse, crime etc. should be condemned; but the creative works of the perpetrator should be judged on their own merit IMO.

MGlitch · 09-26-2022, 09:29 AM

Also the three named fonts still remain on my Sage and Libra 2, as with a different issue I haven't tested my Forma or H2O v1 because they are drained and I don't want to find my micro usb cable. So I suspect it's either user error, or the update for that device specifically. Unless others are seeing it removed from a wider range of devices.

09-25-2022, 05:04 PM	#189
Phil_C Addict Posts: 274 Karma: 391602 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Chicago, IL USA Device: Sony PRS-350; Kobo Clara HD; Kobo Clara 2E; Kobo Clara BW	Fonts Removed Three previous fonts are gone from the Clara 2E: Caecilia, Gill Sans, Malabar. I did like to use Gill Sans sometimes. Those three fonts still appear on the Clara HD, along with the two new Rakuten fonts.

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09-24-2022, 10:54 PM	#181
christianbk Zealot Posts: 101 Karma: 2179144 Join Date: Jan 2020 Location: Washington State Device: At least one of each brand	Received and liking this little device. Only other six inch devices I've owned have been older Kindles, the Kindle Voyage, Pocketbook Color, and a Nook GlowLight 4. Kobo does grippy backs of devices well, so suffice to say this device also hits in terms of that feeling. Definitely also see the "two dots" when you angle the screen to see below the bezel. Not bothersome as I not often look at the screen that way, but thought I'd mention it. The use case for this device is a unique one for me. I've been using a Sage as my at-home reader currently. I'm going to be using the Clara 2e as my reader when picking up my daughters from school and have some time to kill... so it's primarily going to be in my vehicle. It will be without a cover, as I hope to be able to subject it to weather (such as rain - waterproofing and all) and still have the device work well.

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rcentros eReader Wrangler Posts: 7,894 Karma: 52566355 Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Boise, ID Device: PB HD3, GL3, Voyage, Clara HD	Out of curiosity, to those who own both the Clara HD and 2E, is the reading experience much different?

09-26-2022, 09:29 AM	#195
MGlitch Wizard Posts: 2,855 Karma: 22003124 Join Date: Aug 2014 Device: Kobo Forma, Kobo Sage, Kobo Libra 2	Also the three named fonts still remain on my Sage and Libra 2, as with a different issue I haven't tested my Forma or H2O v1 because they are drained and I don't want to find my micro usb cable. So I suspect it's either user error, or the update for that device specifically. Unless others are seeing it removed from a wider range of devices.