Kobo future firmware feature request thread

[vikbi8]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Go the book in My Books, tap on the ... menu in the lower right corner. If the book has annotations or highlights, you will see an Annotations item. Tap on that to see the annotations. If you don't see the Annotations item, the book has no annotations.

Such clever !!! How I missed this feature...
Thank you !

[Clebbel]

Hi, not sure if it has been mentioned but I would love to see bedtime/downtime available under parental settings (let's be honest I probably need this setting too). I.e. the Kobo is unavailable during certain hours, just shows a set homepage/screensaver.

[vikbi8]

Hello,

Is this a way to show a book cover in full size without opening the book ? I mean right click > details > show cover or something like that ?

Thank you,

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by vikbi8

Is this a way to show a book cover in full size without opening the book ? I mean right click > details > show cover or something like that ?

Other than opening the book and then putting it into sleep mode (assuming you have configured the settings in Energy saving and privacy), I am not aware of any other method for showing the cover full screen.

[brothmage]

Disabling the ability to see the reading time stats on kepubs / the activity menu (and/or the ability to disable the activity menu/tracking in the first place) would be amazing

[GrandNeko40]

a feature i would LOVE to see is one that lets me highlight a word or phrase, add an annotation, and then have that annotation appear for every occurrence of the phrase throughout the entire book… like a persistent, custom glossary or dictionary.

say i’m reading a sci-fi book full of proper nouns or made-up sci-fi terms. the character Chet Jawline mentions that the Klezmer drive on their Dingleberry-class ship has failed and now they’re lost in the Hemorrhoid nebula and need to wait for Blasto Laserman to come rescue them.

i’d like to be able to highlight the term “Chet Jawline”, type an annotation like “captain of the Bollocks VII; mortal enemies with Blasto Laserman” — and then any subsequent appearance of that term in the book, i can tap on it and see my little note to remind me who the guy is or where the place is. or maybe even just navigate to a virtual page/chapter to read through my glossary, then go back to the page i had been reading.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by GrandNeko40

a feature i would LOVE to see is one that lets me highlight a word or phrase, add an annotation, and then have that annotation appear for every occurrence of the phrase throughout the entire book… like a persistent, custom glossary or dictionary.

Why not dream big and ask for "Chet Jawline" to be highlighted in every book in which they is mentioned?

[GrandNeko40]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Why not dream big and ask for "Chet Jawline" to be highlighted in every book in which they is mentioned?

that would certainly be nice, but i imagine it’s a bit too much to expect of a dev team. how to be sure that the glossary only applies to books in that series/cycle by A. Authorguy, and not colliding with a different, unrelated, legally distinct Chet Jawline in a different series by G. Bookman?

i think leaving the feature per-book would suffice. a user could theoretically associate this glossary file with other books via some manual process in the UI, if desired.

[Tawn]

Originally Posted by GrandNeko40

a feature i would LOVE to see is one that lets me highlight a word or phrase, add an annotation, and then have that annotation appear for every occurrence of the phrase throughout the entire book… like a persistent, custom glossary or dictionary.
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Yes, when I first got my kobo, I also wished for a way to create a custom dictionary that words (acronyms etc.) could be added to on-the-fly like adding a word to a spellchecker. However at this point I can see that this would not be a simple thing to do and it seems quite unlikely to happen (which is what I suspect DNSB was alluding to).

[GrandNeko40]

Originally Posted by Tawn

Yes, when I first got my kobo, I also wished for a way to create a custom dictionary that words (acronyms etc.) could be added to on-the-fly like adding a word to a spellchecker. However at this point I can see that this would not be a simple thing to do and it seems quite unlikely to happen (which is what I suspect DNSB was alluding to).

it feels like it could be technically possible, without consuming too much ram or storage, to create a system by which certain (user) dictionaries could be stored alongside (or at least, linked to) certain books and loaded on-demand. i don’t expect it’ll happen, but i do wish it would.

[compurandom]

Of course, you _could_ actually make and side load a custom dictionary... but that's not quite the same as being able to annotate on device.

I've seen custom dictionaries dedicated to specific books. Never tried that, but occasionally wanted it.

[moshano]

Hi, I'd like to have 12, 24, 48 hours in the auto-shutdown options. This will prevent the device to discharge "quickly" when for some reason you stop reading for quite a long time and forget to shutdown it. Kobo standby mode is much less power efficient than Kindle's.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by moshano

Hi, I'd like to have 12, 24, 48 hours in the auto-shutdown options. This will prevent the device to discharge "quickly" when for some reason you stop reading for quite a long time and forget to shutdown it. Kobo standby mode is much less power efficient than Kindle's.

You will end up using more power this way. Your shutdown times are way too short.

It's been tried to increase the shutdown time and it's not worked properly.

[moshano]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

You will end up using more power this way. Your shutdown times are way too short.

It's been tried to increase the shutdown time and it's not worked properly.

Why? What doesn't make sense to me are the current values, what would be the point of shutdown after xx minutes? The idea to put 24 hours for auto shut-down is that if you read in a daily basis, the reader never shuts down (which is ok). But if you for whatever reason stop reading for a long period, it automatically will shut down. Because if you forget to do it, in standby mode an average of 2-3% battery per day is consumed.

For me it would very useful, I travel a lot and carry a Kindle when I'm away

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by moshano

Why? What doesn't make sense to me are the current values, what would be the point of shutdown after xx minutes? The idea to put 24 hours for auto shut-down is that if you read in a daily basis, the reader never shuts down (which is ok). But if you for whatever reason stop reading for a long period, it automatically will shut down. Because if you forget to do it, in standby mode an average of 2-3% battery per day is consumed.

For me it would very useful, I travel a lot and carry a Kindle when I'm away

It doesn't work. I've tried the patch. That's part of the problem. So if you do go away from home, you'll have to manually shut off your Kobo.