Koreader running on Kobos (all of them, hopefully!)

[mroni]

Does changing pages in epub using Koreader is the same speed or slower as changing pages in kepub on original software?

[hawhill]

Originally Posted by Hio

other than i couldnt adjust the text size on the pdf i was reading..is this common?

The text size control is only effective in reflow mode. So you'd have to enable that first.

@mroni: I don't see a difference at all for all practical purposes. E-ink is slow, software rendering is still fast in comparison, however it's done. There are probably edge cases for large or complex documents - I don't know what cases are faster on what platform. But then I didn't hear of anybody chosing one over the other for speed reasons.

[NiLuJe]

@hawhill: I think @mroni is worried because the page turn speed of Kobo's *epub* renderer is just plain terrible [especially if you're used to other devices] (while their *kepub* one is moderately faster).

@mroni: As @hawhill mentioned, barring weird CRe issues, KOReader should behave sanely (i.e., as fast or faster than Kobo's kepub engine).

[libertango]

Originally Posted by hawhill

The text size control is only effective in reflow mode. So you'd have to enable that first.

Yes reflow mode is mandatory to read pdf's on a small device like an e-reader. From my experience Koreader does a fantastic job in that.
I set also the scroll mode on. I don't scroll, just turn pages, but when scroll mode is off the new page doesn't start where the previuos ended. Maybe I'm missing some other setting but this way works for me.

[Hio]

Thank you, reflow etc works great,
but when i add books now iwth Calibre, it the first time didnt get added to the library in nickel (it is in the file manager and readable by koreader) and the second time i added and adjusted books it removed the library completely from nickel, now saying no books in there..

is this a common bug?
any thoughts?
thank you..

[hawhill]

Sounds like a corrupted filesystem. Did your experiments also include a hard reset (via long-hold of the power switch) at some point? Or a hard eject from host PC (not using the proper eject USB media option)?

Edit: no, that's wrong, it sounds like a corrupted Nickel database. Which happens when you exit/kill Nickel in a bad moment. Not sure if we established yet when that can happen.

[Hio]

hmm it appears to be working again...

i'll let you know if it disappears again for any reason..

no there no times when i exited /killed nickel at any bad moments, that i know of...
the only thing i could think of was yesterday one fo the books would freeze when trying to select text... but it didnt do anything to the library until i connected it to calibre today..

i'll keep posted..

couple other questions..
wondering about setting the koreader 'power off' screen to an image.. i've seen some posts about this but iddnt get where the script needed to be added and where the image would need to be put..

same goes for a screen saver..

thanks for your work

[Hio]

and actually, it doesnt appear to be adding any of the new books i added to the nickel library...
so i guess it's not working..fully...

[Ken Maltby]

Originally Posted by Hio

hmm it appears to be working again...
couple other questions..
wondering about setting the koreader 'power off' screen to an image.. i've seen some posts about this but iddnt get where the script needed to be added and where the image would need to be put..

same goes for a screen saver..

thanks for your work

Koreader exits to the program that launched Koreader, so it has no "Power off screen. The Kobo Start Menu (KSM) does have a Power Off function that you can add images to.

Koreader does have a sleep/screensave/suspend function On the last page of the Advanced settings there is an entry that lets you define the path to your image, this is for when the book file has no cover or when you set the option to not use the book's cover.

Luck;
Ken

[Ebri]

Originally Posted by Hio

hmm it appears to be working again...

i'll let you know if it disappears again for any reason..

no there no times when i exited /killed nickel at any bad moments, that i know of...
the only thing i could think of was yesterday one fo the books would freeze when trying to select text... but it didnt do anything to the library until i connected it to calibre today..

i'll keep posted..

couple other questions..
wondering about setting the koreader 'power off' screen to an image.. i've seen some posts about this but iddnt get where the script needed to be added and where the image would need to be put..

same goes for a screen saver..

thanks for your work

Most probably rather a corrupted database is there. have you checked the database with the Calibre companion plugin in calibre? At such behaviour I always get errors instead of OK. Solution is copying back a database backup. (Somehow my database is almost always gets corrupted, and when I connect the reader to my PC, i always get a warning for possibly corrupted disc, but testing finds no error... But this is the case for ok database also...)

[Hio]

Hi,
the nickel library appears to be working again so far..i updated the cached metadata of the device and it added the books to nickel that it wasn't seeing before..

i will keep posted if anything goes strange again!

thank you.

and ken how would i go about adding images to the power off function of the ksm?
where would i put the images etc?

thanks

How do I setup Evernote export?

When I try to login I get an error saying incorrect username or password, but I know for certain that they are correct. Any ideas?

[Ken Maltby]

Originally Posted by Hio

Hi,
the nickel library appears to be working again so far..i updated the cached metadata of the device and it added the books to nickel that it wasn't seeing before..

i will keep posted if anything goes strange again!

thank you.

and ken how would i go about adding images to the power off function of the ksm?
where would i put the images etc?

thanks

The PowerOff function of KSM is better discussed in the "Kobo Start Menu" thread. The original discussion started at about post #302 (for me that is page 21 of the thread)

The PowerOff page displayed is basically just a very simple HTML page. Like one page of an HTML book/pamphlet/web page. That might scare some, but all the code that you need is spelled out in the examples, you can just replace the text used with your own and add images if you want. Or you can do what I did and create the displayed page as a full page image and just have that as the body of the page, defined in the HTML code. I used GIMP2 to compose the picture.

My poweroff_info.html:

<html>
<head>
<title>kobo menu info</title>
<style type="image/png">
p {
margin-top: 0.5em; }
</style>
</head>

<body>
<img src="/mnt/onboard/.kobo/kbmenu/txt/poweroff.png">
</body>
</html>

See.. nothing to it. I have my poweroff.png image file in the same directory with the poweroff_info.html above. (Just to make it easy to find.)

If you have any more to address KSM you should post it in the KSM thread.

Luck;
Ken

[hawhill]

Originally Posted by BatmansStuntman

How do I setup Evernote export?

When I try to login I get an error saying incorrect username or password, but I know for certain that they are correct. Any ideas?

Hm, is your device properly connected via Wifi when you try to log in?

[tshering]

It seems to me that "frontlight_intensity" in settings.reader.lua has no effect. Or is it me?