Kobalt: an alternative reader app for Kobo devices

[Dal Bhat]

When the settings menus open after touching center screen, I see a banner showing how many highlight links there are on that page. Can that be turned off? I don't know why I'd ever use it.

[Sirtel]

I definitely prefer fast loading to accurate page count, so thank you very, very much for this! Slow loading was the main reason I never used KOReader.

[Apollyon202]

Does the lack of accurate page count effect the progress bar on the bottom?

[kandwo]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

I definitely prefer fast loading to accurate page count, so thank you very, very much for this! Slow loading was the main reason I never used KOReader.

Same here.

[afakler]

I'm still very happe with Kobalt beta8. I don't need the speed loading, cause my main focus when i'm reading is not speed. The "Hidden Feature" Option is very nice for hiding all the things i'm not interested in.
Could you make the menu bar at the bottom customizable? I often swap the tapzones, so it would be great to have a possibility to do that with as least as possible taps.

[MrSilverstrike]

Originally Posted by howyoudoin

Words I add aren't showing up on the my words section on the libra 2

There's a separate My Words feature in Kobalt itself now, maybe you're looking in the wrong place. You can find it by tapping on the button next to annotation mode where annotations, bookmarks and now saved words live.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by MrSilverstrike

I just released beta 8 of Kobalt.

I highly recommend installing this particular one via the website, as that sets up the ignore rules so none of Kobalt's images end up in My Books.

I also made another big announcement...

I've just installed beta 8. Now to give it a go once my Kobo reboots.

[JSWolf]

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[JSWolf]

I found a rendering bug in beta 8. The following code should produce a 2px high black line but it's not black. It's a grayish color. And it's thicker then it should be.

hr {
  margin-top: 0.9em;
  margin-right: 40%;
  margin-bottom: 0.9em;
  margin-left: 40%;
  border-top: 2px solid;
}

This is the line in Kobalt. Also you'll notice, I have what I think is space for one more line between the last line and the footer. I'd like to have that last line instead of the empty space.


This is the line in RMSDK.


And another bug. It changed where I was reading when I changed the horizontal margins.

I bookmarked the page I was on and change the font size. Then the bookmark was no longer pointing to where I bookmarked it. The bookmark should be attached to the first paragraph of the page so it can go back to the right place when settings are changed. Right

Another thing, the return to page number doesn't work. I changed the font size so that return to page 149 was not the correct page.

If you use ADE pages, page numbers would be more accurate and you could use them to get to close to were you left off when settings are changed. You'd either be on the same page or 1 or 2 pages back instead who knows where (depending on the changed settings). Right now, I started on page 149. Changed the font size and was still on 149. But 149 was not the same page and I had no idea how far off I was from where I left off.



There is where ADE page number fixes all of these issues.

[JSWolf]

Kobalt rotated the screen and when it rotated back to normal, it then locked up.

Kobo Libra 2, 4.38.23852

[JSWolf]

Feature requests.

• Being able to switch books without having to exit Kobalt and reopen with a different book.
• more font size control. Instead of 8, 8.5, 9. I think this would be good (8, 8.25, 8.5, 8.75, 9).
• Fully turn off rotation
• being able to access NickelMenu from within Koblat

[MrSilverstrike]

Thanks for testing JSWolf, I'll make sure to fix the bugs!

I will also probably add an option in Settings that gives you more precise control of font size and line height with less restrictions. That's going to make everyone happy.

Some of the page number stuff you brought up sadly is engine related so it's not something I can fix immediately, but I would like to make bookmarks and such more reliable. Stay tuned for that.

[howyoudoin]

Originally Posted by MrSilverstrike

There's a separate My Words feature in Kobalt itself now, maybe you're looking in the wrong place. You can find it by tapping on the button next to annotation mode where annotations, bookmarks and now saved words live.

Oh ok. Thanks!

[fogice]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Feature requests.
Being able to switch books without having to exit Kobalt and reopen with a different book.

https://github.com/nicoverbruggen/kobalt/discussions/79 is on the list for the 1.0 release, but hasn't been tagged for a beta yet (see https://kobalt-dev.nicoverbruggen.be/tracker )

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by MrSilverstrike

Thanks for testing JSWolf, I'll make sure to fix the bugs!

I will also probably add an option in Settings that gives you more precise control of font size and line height with less restrictions. That's going to make everyone happy.

Some of the page number stuff you brought up sadly is engine related so it's not something I can fix immediately, but I would like to make bookmarks and such more reliable. Stay tuned for that.

If it's possible to add in ADE page numbers, you'd have less issue with the current page being lost when some settings are changed. An ADE page can start on one page and end on another. So at worst case, I'd be off by one page which is easy enough to find where I was or just read from the page I'm on and I'll then get to where I was.

More granular font and line height would be very good.

Thickness AKA font weight (IMHO) needs improving. It's does not go dark enough. each click of the slider should go darker. starting from 0, it's 4 clicks before I nice the font weight increase and it's only very minior. Try doubling and/or tripling maybe triple until the first 1/2 and then from there doubling. the amount of weight added to each click of the + and that might do it. I should find the maximum weight should be too dark and it's not. I can see some finding it too light. My font of choice is ChareInk7SP if you want to test what I am seeing. You can get the ChareInk7SP here.

For the light, can we have a default setting so we can just turn it on to our light choice and then off.