The Ultimate Kobo Tips & Tricks Thread

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by pypeke

I found the manual on Guido's eReader table though.

Just in case this is useful ... if you want to make the official User Guide PDF accessible via the Kobo's Help system, you can do the following:

1. Rename the PDF filename to userguide.pdf (possibly case-sensitive?)
2. Copy it to the Kobo into directory /.kobo/guide/
3. It should then be accessible via More > Help - at the bottom of the page, labelled 'User Guide' under sub-heading 'OTHER RESOURCES'

[John F]

Originally Posted by PeterT

I know people have poibted you to the Kobo manual; unfortunately it's (IMO) very limited in the functionality that it describes. It doesn't talk about side-loading of content for example.

I hate to say but like so many modern devices / applications the best way of learning is to push buttons, touch screens, see what happens

And there may be helpful information on the Kobo website.

For example, for side-loading:

https://help.kobo.com/hc/en-us/artic...-your-computer

[pypeke]

Originally Posted by jackie_w

Just in case this is useful ... if you want to make the official User Guide PDF accessible via the Kobo's Help system, you can do the following:

1. Rename the PDF filename to userguide.pdf (possibly case-sensitive?)
2. Copy it to the Kobo into directory /.kobo/guide/
3. It should then be accessible via More > Help - at the bottom of the page, labelled 'User Guide' under sub-heading 'OTHER RESOURCES'

For some reason< Norton has blocked MobileRead as a dangerous forum>I had to wait a while to respond to posts> I could not even get into the forum>

I also have to use the shift lock to get lower case letters and turn off the shift lock to get capital letters> I cannot type a comma or period at all> This just started today when I tried to get into the forum>

Something weird is going on. Now my keyboard is working fine. I am using a Tap 20 and it has the keyboard on the screen. Now the commas and periods are working.

Thanks. I will try to rename the manual.

I think the Sage is going to be returned. There are too many issues with it. I have already posted them.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by pypeke

For some reason< Norton has blocked MobileRead as a dangerous forum>I had to wait a while to respond to posts> I could not even get into the forum>

I also have to use the shift lock to get lower case letters and turn off the shift lock to get capital letters> I cannot type a comma or period at all> This just started today when I tried to get into the forum>

Something weird is going on. Now my keyboard is working fine. I am using a Tap 20 and it has the keyboard on the screen. Now the commas and periods are working.

Thanks. I will try to rename the manual.

I think the Sage is going to be returned. There are too many issues with it. I have already posted them.

I suggest getting rid of Norton, It's awful with way too many false positives. It also slows down the computer. I use Windows security and I have no problem with it.

[ozgurs]

can calibre clean the fonts/Css with kobo utulities plugin?

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by ozgurs

can calibre clean the fonts/Css with kobo utulities plugin?

What do you mean by "cleaning fonts/css"?

[ozgurs]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

What do you mean by "cleaning fonts/css"?

On Epub format ebook in my device
can not change the font.

so i want to know how to make it unlocked to change the fonts.

actually there is a menu under the Kobo Utilities Plugin menu as
"Remove Reader Font..."
but it doesnt work



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In some years i remember something was changing epubs to KPubs (kobo epub) format and all was working very well..


now i can not see anything related to Kpub, probably kpub is not continuing.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by ozgurs

On Epub format ebook in my device
can not change the font.

so i want to know how to make it unlocked to change the fonts.

actually there is a menu under the Kobo Utilities Plugin menu as
"Remove Reader Font..."
but it doesnt work


_________


In some years i remember something was changing epubs to KPubs (kobo epub) format and all was working very well..


now i can not see anything related to Kpub, probably kpub is not continuing.

You can't do that with Kobo Utilities. You'll need to either edit it by hand in the calibre editor, or do a conversion from epub to epub and in the conversion options Look & Feel/Styling/Select what style information you want removed, check the box before Fonts.

Or use kepub. Yes, you can still convert to kepub. It's now the native feature of calibre, not a plugin anymore. Right-click the Kobo Utilities icon -> Configure driver -> Collections, covers and uploads -> check the box Use Kobo Viewer for EPUB books.

[PeterT]

The remove font in Utilities only applies if you have selected a different font on the device for that book.