Kobalt: an alternative reader app for Kobo devices

[MrSilverstrike]

Originally Posted by DNSB

I installed Kobalt beta 5 on my Sage (fw 4.38.23852). That seemed to go fine but when I opened a book and tried to set the default font, it wasn't fine. The first time I selected my Charis SIL 7 modified font, my Sage restarted. After the restart, I was able to select the font and set it as the default. I then started reading and after 7 pages, my Sage restarted again. I re-opened the book and so far, I've read ~100 pages and no restart.

Thanks for the log, I'll investigate!

[Dal Bhat]

Originally Posted by MrSilverstrike

I like to think I've covered all bases.

This is such a really nice piece of work. Such comprehensive consideration of the users' preferences is just the best.

Bravo.

[Desertway]

Originally Posted by MrSilverstrike

Kobalt on Android has a library feature right now. Tagging and collections are planned. What version are you trying right now? Beta 5?

Oh, I wasn't clear. I'm on beta 5, and it does have a good library feature. I was specifically asking about "collections" in future releases, because they do help with large libraries. I'm glad to hear that they're planned. Such a fantastic reading app! Thank you!

[DNSB]

It's me again. Two more crashes. See attached logs. It seems to happen when I am attempting to select a font and make it default. The other issue is that despite selecting a font and making it the default, the next book I open reverts back to using Libron as the font to use.

[MrSilverstrike]

Originally Posted by DNSB

It's me again. Two more crashes. See attached logs. It seems to happen when I am attempting to select a font and make it default. The other issue is that despite selecting a font and making it the default, the next book I open reverts back to using Libron as the font to use.

Hmm... how many fonts do you have on your device and are you having this problem after waking the device? One crash is the watchdog that kills the device upon a hang and one is a memory allocation fail, which seems to indicate we run out of memory.

Any further logs you can send me that are Kobalt specific?

Specifically, if they exist:

.adds/kobalt/events.jsonl
.adds/kobalt/diagnostics/events.jsonl
.adds/kobalt/diagnostics/events.jsonl.previous
.adds/kobalt/crash-reporting/ (all files)

I've run into a crash issue with descriptor exhaustion in the past, and that can happen under certain circumstances when a sync is happening in the background and Kobalt is loading the fonts at the same time.