Firmware 4.23.15505

[anacreon]

Originally Posted by compurandom

It's not a plugin, it's a recipe, and it might not be in the regular catalog of recipes.

https://github.com/mmagnus/Pocket-Pl...bre-Plugin.git

It's fairly flexible in that you can control by tags in pocket what it downloads.

Thank you. I have no time now, but I will study it later.

[93terp]

Originally Posted by Svens

Interesting. After updating 4.23.15505 on my KA1, I have a strange section "What's new?". From old firmware

after updating my Forma I do NOT get the "What's New" section in the Device Information section...

[93terp]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

That's sort of a collection on the home screen.

I'm talking about when browsing My Books/Authors. Currently, only list view is available. On the Nook, you can have thumbnails with the author's name underneath. And if you have multiple books by the same author, the books are stacked with a little number in the upper corner. Let me attach a picture...

Copy, now I understand what you're saying. Agree, would love to have a thumbnails view option.

[Lusephur]

Originally Posted by 93terp

Copy, now I understand what you're saying. Agree, would love to have a thumbnails view option.

If i'm reading this correctly, then you do have this thumbnail view option on the forma.
tap the 3 dots in my books

[93terp]

Originally Posted by Skydog

I, for one, am eternally grateful for your tinkering!

Ditto and

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Lusephur

If i'm reading this correctly, then you do have this thumbnail view option on the forma.
tap the 3 dots in my books

That option is not present for the Authors view.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Lusephur

If i'm reading this correctly, then you do have this thumbnail view option on the forma.
tap the 3 dots in my books

Originally Posted by DNSB

That option is not present for the Authors view.

Right. Thumbnail view is only available in Books and in Series (which I didn't notice until this most recent firmware). In Authors or Collections, only list view is available.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Cootey

• I see that the Series sorting still lists single books. This wouldn’t be a problem if the single book was x of y in a series, but each standalone book is its own series. I wish there was a way to filter out the lone wolves from the pack. Fortunately, scrolling through them with the slider is a breeze.

I checked on my Clara and the only single books that show up in Series are books that are marked as part of a series in Calibre, even if I only have that one book.

A book that truly stands alone and has no series info in Calibre, doesn't appear in series view on my Clara (at least not that I've noticed so far).

[Number9]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

I love post 1960's westerns. No John Wayne, no Louis L'Amour.



I particularly enjoy foreign westerns. There's something about seeing the conventions of the Old West interpreted though other cultures. I love the Italian Spaghetti Westerns and their literary counterpart, the British Piccadilly Cowboys. Lots of those old books have been released as ebooks through a company called Piccadilly Publishing.

Thanks! 😊

[amo]

Originally Posted by Cesco

I had the same problem so I went back to the old fw.

Okay, I'm sure this has been discussed lots of times, but I can't find the information on how to downgrade to the old firmware... Can someone point me in the right direction?
(Edited to say: never mind. I found some info, and it says if you downgrade you can't use the wifi anymore or it'll just go back to re-upgrading. I think I'll take the wifi and just put up with the annoyance... )

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by geek1011

But, why do you need access to the WiFi icon while reading? It should turn off automatically unless you're in the browser or if you have ForceWifiOn, and I can't think of a reason you'd need shell access immediately while in the reader.

If you look up internet from search while reading, Wifi is then turned on. You can't turn it off.
Then when you go the Home screen, it syncs, EVEN THOUGH you unticked automatic sync in setup. You get an update download if you didn't want one. Without knowing! (a) You can forget the WiFi is now on, or (b) it's slow and fiddly to turn off.

Then later the screen goes blank in the middle of reading as it updates.

The workaround is to ONLY open a book from the collections screen, not Home, then when you leave book (and you CAN'T go direct to Home because the GUI is brain dead) you are back at collections. It never syncs there, so you can turn off the WiFi.
WHY no Main Menu icon and WiFi icon when you bring up menu bar in reading?

Since I got my 1st Kobo, the H2O original, they have fixed bugs and improved highlighting. But the GUI is just getting poorer.

I do appreciate my Kobo Libra, but really on GUI so many companies seem to have lost the plot, not just Kobo.

[93terp]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

I agree completely.

I'd like to see the tiles come back, but that isn't going to happen.

The new changes are a positive. I prefer the buttons at the bottom to the old hamburger menu.

Me too, love the tabs and actually like them better than the tiles. Much cleaner IMHO.

[the.Mtn.Man]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Since I got my 1st Kobo, the H2O original, they have fixed bugs and improved highlighting. But the GUI is just getting poorer.

I have to agree. Seems the interface design has become a case of form over function. It looks great in adverts, but it's not so nice to use sometimes. Once you're in a book, it's fine, but actually getting to your books is less user friendly than it used to be. The new tabs are a step in the right direction.

[compurandom]

Originally Posted by 93terp

Me too, love the tabs and actually like them better than the tiles. Much cleaner IMHO.

Actually, we still have tiles. Just 4, and all the same size, instead of 10-20 all different sizes.

[MGlitch]

Originally Posted by the.Mtn.Man

I have to agree. Seems the interface design has become a case of form over function. It looks great in adverts, but it's not so nice to use sometimes. Once you're in a book, it's fine, but actually getting to your books is less user friendly than it used to be. The new tabs are a step in the right direction.

Hard disagree. The current homescreen not only looks better but presents your options in a more logical way.

People tend to forget those tiles would change themselves unless you took steps outside of the provided settings. They were not uniform in shape or placement creating a much less pleasing UI/UX.

I also fail to see how getting to your books is remotely difficult in the current UI. Going to ‘My Books’ puts you back in the view you were last in, and gives you very clear options for navigating to your book.