Firmware 4.18.13737 released

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

You can do that with the patches for 4.18.

Yeah, and if I could move the chapter progress back to the footer, I'd update and mess around with it.

For now though, I have 4.15 exactly how I like it. It is stable and none of the new features is a compelling enough reason to update. Maybe one day I will, but for now I just don't see the need.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Yeah, and if I could move the chapter progress back to the footer, I'd update and mess around with it.

For now though, I have 4.15 exactly how I like it. It is stable and none of the new features is a compelling enough reason to update. Maybe one day I will, but for now I just don't see the need.

I'm on 4.17. Don't see the need to update again just now. When the new version of the custom font sizes patch will be released, perhaps then. Of course I'm pretty sure Kobo has released 4.19 by then or even 4.20...

[TheMgnt]

Re: Backlight Bug Aura HD

4.14 is the last release where this was working properly. Perhaps on the surface it's a minor annoyance, but I see it as an unnecessary battery drain on the device.

Recreation steps are simple:
- With the backlight off, power down or allow the device to power itself down.
- Start the device by sliding the red switch.
- When it comes on the backlight will be on at it's lowest setting, and the backlight indicator will have a slash across it indicating the light is off.
- If you try to increase the light intensity by sliding your finger up the side of the screen it won't work.
- To turn off the light you need to turn it on by the black button, then turn the backlight off.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

Of course I'm pretty sure Kobo has released 4.19 by then or even 4.20...

Oh, I'm guessing firmware 4.20 will have many issues

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Yeah, and if I could move the chapter progress back to the footer, I'd update and mess around with it.

For now though, I have 4.15 exactly how I like it. It is stable and none of the new features is a compelling enough reason to update. Maybe one day I will, but for now I just don't see the need.

Stable? Nope. 4.17.x seemed stable but we have 4.18.x now.

The problem with having the chapter progress on the bottom is that we then would have to have the page numbers at the top. The page numbers belong at the bottom and that leaves the top for the chapter progress.

This isn;t ever going to change (IMHO) and the thing is, you either get used to it or stay on 4.15 forever.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by TheMgnt

Re: Backlight Bug Aura HD

4.14 is the last release where this was working properly. Perhaps on the surface it's a minor annoyance, but I see it as an unnecessary battery drain on the device.

Recreation steps are simple:
- With the backlight off, power down or allow the device to power itself down.
- Start the device by sliding the red switch.
- When it comes on the backlight will be on at it's lowest setting, and the backlight indicator will have a slash across it indicating the light is off.
- If you try to increase the light intensity by sliding your finger up the side of the screen it won't work.
- To turn off the light you need to turn it on by the black button, then turn the backlight off.

There has never been any bugs regarding the backlight. It's always worked perfectly well at always being off. There is no way at all to turn the backlight on.

That's because it's impossible to have a backlight with eInk. You have to have a front light.

[rashkae]

Originally Posted by TheMgnt

Re: Backlight Bug Aura HD
Recreation steps are simple:
- With the backlight off, power down or allow the device to power itself down.

Question, to clarify.. I've seen a few posts where you, (or someone) explicitly mentions Power Off, (or power Down.). Do you mean Sleep mode? or do you have to actually power off the device to trigger this?

[ratinox]

Originally Posted by rashkae

Question, to clarify.. I've seen a few posts where you, (or someone) explicitly mentions Power Off, (or power Down.). Do you mean Sleep mode? or do you have to actually power off the device to trigger this?

Power off, not sleep.

[MGlitch]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Stable? Nope. 4.17.x seemed stable but we have 4.18.x now.

The problem with having the chapter progress on the bottom is that we then would have to have the page numbers at the top. The page numbers belong at the bottom and that leaves the top for the chapter progress.

Please don’t state opinion as fact. There’s literally nothing that requires page numbers to be on the bottom. In fact many books have them at the top outside corners. So you’re factually wrong in this statement.

Kobo easily could have allowed for this level of customization, why they opted not to is anyone’s guess, however one “answer” that can absolutely be eliminated is that there’s some sort of standard requiring page numbers go in a particular place on a page.

[issybird]

I really miss the dropdown menu in the upper lefthand corner while reading a book.

[Calenorn]

Originally Posted by issybird

I really miss the dropdown menu in the upper lefthand corner while reading a book.

Me too. Takes an extra click to get to the home screen.

Wonder why they did that.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by MGlitch

Please don’t state opinion as fact. There’s literally nothing that requires page numbers to be on the bottom. In fact many books have them at the top outside corners. So you’re factually wrong in this statement.

Kobo easily could have allowed for this level of customization, why they opted not to is anyone’s guess, however one “answer” that can absolutely be eliminated is that there’s some sort of standard requiring page numbers go in a particular place on a page.

Page numbers for eBooks have been on the bottom for as long as I've been reading eBooks. Just because a lot of pBooks do it on the top in the corner does not mean it has to be that way for an eBook. Sony was doing it on the bottom ever since the PRS-500. And that was the first eInk eBook Reader sold in the US. As for being factually wrong, as far as eBook Readers go, I am correct.

I know Kobo could have made opens for where the page numbers and chapter info go.But they didn't They kept to the standard page numbers at the bottom and that left the chapter info at the top.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by issybird

I really miss the dropdown menu in the upper lefthand corner while reading a book.

So do I. I find it rather annoying to have to go back to the main menu and then to the book list or collection list. This was a really bad idea to remove the hamburger menu in the upper right when displaying an eBook.

[MGlitch]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Page numbers for eBooks have been on the bottom for as long as I've been reading eBooks. Just because a lot of pBooks do it on the top in the corner does not mean it has to be that way for an eBook. Sony was doing it on the bottom ever since the PRS-500. And that was the first eInk eBook Reader sold in the US. As for being factually wrong, as far as eBook Readers go, I am correct.

I know Kobo could have made opens for where the page numbers and chapter info go.But they didn't They kept to the standard page numbers at the bottom and that left the chapter info at the top.

You literally provide the argument against yourself in your rebuttal.

Just because previous ereaders have done it, does not mean it needs to be done that way.

You are entitled to your opinion, however your opinion is not fact. And literal centuries of books demonstrate that it is just a matter of design for where page numbers go.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by MGlitch

You literally provide the argument against yourself in your rebuttal.

Just because previous ereaders have done it, does not mean it needs to be done that way.

You are entitled to your opinion, however your opinion is not fact. And literal centuries of books demonstrate that it is just a matter of design for where page numbers go.

It's been done with the page number at the bottom for at least as long as the PRS-500 existed. My guess sis Kobo did not what to change what's been working for at least that long. And remember, we are not dealing with pBooks. So just because it's done differently on pBook does not mean eBook have to follow suite.

However, Marvin (for example) for iOS has a customizable bit at the bottom of the page. You can have what you want and you can even have different things on odd/even pages.

But the problem here is Kobo is sticking to what's been working for a long time. Before now, I have not read of one person asking for the page numbers in an eBook Reader to be move to the top instead of staying at the bottom.