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EDIT: Actually, I have an epub of "The Savage Stories of Conan" that Jellby compiled here on MobileRead and that has whole paragraph indenting for a quote at the beginning of the first story, so I could test it on this, perhaps. It appears to be correctly formatted on Calibre's eReader, and on the Kobo app for my Android phone (see below)... But this isn't a Kobo eReader, so I'll test it, if you aren't able to provide me with a sample text. Last edited by 9littlebees; 09-20-2012 at 04:40 AM. Reason: Jellby's epub link corrected |
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Having said that, that isn't a bad example to use. It uses several fonts and different formatting. Plus it is easy for everyone to get and try. |
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Oh very nice, thank you for doing a Glo review!
Could you check to see if the book covers of epubs (not kepubs) are properly full screen right away without editing the stylesheet and without copying them over to the Glo three or four times from Calibre? (Those are workarounds for current problems with constant side 'margins' of book covers, even when the aspect ratio of the image is correct.) EDIT: I mean the book cover that is shown when the Glo is in sleep or off mode. (It shows the cover of the last book you were reading [well, it should anyway, we currently have a bug that shows the book cover of the book before last, but anyway. As long as its epub I'll be interested in how the cover displays.]) Last edited by Mrs_Often; 09-20-2012 at 03:51 AM. Reason: more info |
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Please could you add following review issues:
- which web browser is installed? Can another browser be installed and used? - vertical scrolling in long web pages, i.e. mobile optimized sites of newspapers. We do not have hardware buttons in Glo! and scrolling down by touch doesn't work prorely - low refresh rate of eInk! I'm happy to have hardware buttons in the built-in browser on Sony T1, one push = one page. The quesion is how does Glo scroll in web? Soft buttons in browser, double touch or some other gestures, shaking? - zooming/increasing of font sizes in web browser? Soft buttons, menu? - how comfortable is reading of wide web pages, for example this forum. Can a topic be re-rendered to see only messages, without authors on right side? I mean scroll to left show authors, of course. On Android it's very easy, on iOS- is a pain. The same questions to Kindle Paperwhite, which has no buttons too... |
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Still, it's an included feature, so I shall be happy to report on it. Same goes for the Facebook integration. I have no desire to use this, but I'll review it all the same. |
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09-20-2012, 05:44 AM | #24 |
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Shall I post an outline of the review?
Right, I've put together a rather large outline that I will be following for the review. Would people like to see it here? I've essentially laid out the review in the following sections:
I will be providing a rating for this device, which will involve a score out of 10 for a number of sections, to be weighted as follows:
On the flip side, I'm tempted to not post it, so the big reveal of my review isn't ruined with spoilers. Thoughts? Last edited by 9littlebees; 09-20-2012 at 06:29 AM. |
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Kobo has stated that the Touch, the Mini and the Glo will share firmware. So, we can already answer most of these.
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The browser works fairly well. The limitations are the screen and the low end CPU. I'm not going to use it for my daily browser, but I have used it in the past to download a few books. The experience on the Glo should be better as it has a faster CPU and higher resolution screen. Now that I have finished hijacking the thread, my apologies to 9littlebees, I'll return you to the regular programming... |
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After I posted earlier, I realised that trying the mobi version is a good idea. The Kobo devices support mobi books without DRM. I loaded both on my Touch today. The mobi works fairly well, but isn't as good as the epub.
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EPUB, PDF, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, TXT, HTML, RFT, CBZ, CBR. Last edited by 9littlebees; 09-20-2012 at 07:29 AM. |
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Edit: I just found that list at the end of the specs for the Mini. Last edited by davidfor; 09-20-2012 at 07:51 AM. |
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Great stuff, looking forward to reading your review now! Hurry up October
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09-20-2012, 09:26 AM | #30 |
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With regard to Kobo Glo and Calibre....
It'd be really useful to find out if Calibre can handle Collection Management or whatever is the equivalent of Collections on the Kobo readers.... ....not to mention that it'd be good to know for the Kobo Glo how things work with "collections" when the books are on the memory card (heard of major issues on this w/ Nook and organization of books on memory card being lost upon restarting the device). I know that there's quite a few folks who have a large collection of ebooks in a Calibre database, use Calibre to manage the organization of books on their device, and really don't want to jailbreak the device to enable the organizational abilities of Calibre with that device. Since it's my understanding that Calibre won't natively interact w/ Kindles with regard to Collections since the intro of the Kindle Touch without jail breaking, the ability of the Kobo Glo to easily be organized via Calibre is really of interest to me. I have spoken w/ Amazon Kindle Support regarding the Paperwhite and Calibre essentially being locked out of organizational capabilities....their response was to tell me how much they care about the user experience, but....blah, blah, blah....they know nothing about it and will will pass the request upstairs...been about a week and nothing else heard about it. Also contacted Kobo in regard to same issue regarding the Glo....and did tell them that this was a pre-sales question, and the this particular functionality will have a big impact on the purchase decision....they were nice, but didn't have any info yet on the new Glo, as it had just come out.... We'll see, i guess. Any info welcome, thanks. JEff |
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