Firmware 2.8.1 ?

[itsmir]

Originally Posted by magphil

When reading a book from a shelve, is there a way to go back to same shelve when the book is finished, rather then on the home page.

I seem to remember this was possible when the shelve feature was first released.

When reading several books in a serie, it's rather stupid to go back to home page, select shelve, then navigate all the way to the correct shelve.

The last shelf you used will appear as a tile on the home page, so just a quick tap to get to the next installment. I read a lot of epic fantasy so was happy to see this on the UI.

[rayhigh]

Originally Posted by Sound

Some people belong best in one's ignore list. Let him troll all he wants.

This is the problem with the internet these days - anyone who expresses a strong opinion, or calls others on their failure to reason, must be a troll. In this instance, calling me a troll is a way to not bother engaging your (lack of) critical thinking ability.

[rayhigh]

Originally Posted by kevenv

I didn't know you could do that, thanks!

Yes, go ahead and bury your head 'in the sand.' No loss to me.

[speakingtohe]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Given that most of the posts -- by what by my count, are by a minority of the posters -- are saying either "make it work the way I want it to work" and/or "give us choice", which means that when you first connect your Kobo reader, you are either going to have to make a lot of choices or you are going to get a set of pre-canned defaults which 90%+* percent of the users will never change. Either way, the software is going to be more complex which leads to the high probability of more bugs and that those bugs will slip by testing.
Regards,
David

I agree, although it needn't be that way and doesn't seem to be for most things with software options.
The margin choice for example, eventually led to books opening on the wrong page. My books still open on the wrong p-age about 1/2 the time and I am wondering if this might not be due to the fact that I prefer unjustified text. I am testing it on the mini but not for long enough to know yet.

Helen

[speakingtohe]

Originally Posted by magphil

When reading a book from a shelve, is there a way to go back to same shelve when the book is finished, rather then on the home page.

I seem to remember this was possible when the shelve feature was first released.

When reading several books in a serie, it's rather stupid to go back to home page, select shelve, then navigate all the way to the correct shelve.

You are right, there used to be a correctly functioning back button. Kobo gives and Kobo takes away.

Helen

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by speakingtohe

You are right, there used to be a correctly functioning back button. Kobo gives and Kobo takes away.

For the Glo and Aura, you get a tile for that shelf on the home page.

Regards,
David

[murg]

Originally Posted by rayhigh

So what your saying is that if an automobile were designed so you had to take 5 steps to start the ignition instead of one, that would be just fine.

You are being obtuse.

Let's see:

Close door
Engage seat belt
Move gear to Park
Insert Key
Turn Key to Start
Once car has started, release key to Run

Oh, look, six steps.

And in more modern cars, sensors can enforce the close door and engage seat belt rules.

Or, if you don't have the keys:

Break windows or jimmy the door
Rip ignition key cover off
Isolate Power, Ground, and Start wires
Pull wires, exposing conductive wires
Twist Power and Ground wires together
Touch Power wire to Start Wire until car starts

Oh, look, it still takes six steps to hot-wire a car.

[Jaden]

Originally Posted by murg

Let's see:

Close door
Engage seat belt
Move gear to Park
Insert Key
Turn Key to Start
Once car has started, release key to Run

Oh, look, six steps.

And in more modern cars, sensors can enforce the close door and engage seat belt rules.

Or, if you don't have the keys:

Break windows or jimmy the door
Rip ignition key cover off
Isolate Power, Ground, and Start wires
Pull wires, exposing conductive wires
Twist Power and Ground wires together
Touch Power wire to Start Wire until car starts

Oh, look, it still takes six steps to hot-wire a car.

If you take steps like the above into account, you will have to add further steps to the brightness setting

1. pick up the reader
2. open the cover
3. power the reader on (or wake it from sleep) - if you don't have a sleep cover

All that just because someone said that he thought the extra taps were annoying...

[rayhigh]

Jeez, what a berk.

Originally Posted by murg

Let's see:

Close door
Engage seat belt
Move gear to Park
Insert Key
Turn Key to Start
Once car has started, release key to Run

Oh, look, six steps.

And in more modern cars, sensors can enforce the close door and engage seat belt rules.

Or, if you don't have the keys:

Break windows or jimmy the door
Rip ignition key cover off
Isolate Power, Ground, and Start wires
Pull wires, exposing conductive wires
Twist Power and Ground wires together
Touch Power wire to Start Wire until car starts

Oh, look, it still takes six steps to hot-wire a car.

[PeterT]

Gent;s please lets be civil and drop this childish behavior...

[HansTWN]

Well, I finally got tired of waiting and upgraded manually. Seemingly without a hitch.

[Dr. Drib]

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[speakingtohe]

Originally Posted by DNSB

For the Glo and Aura, you get a tile for that shelf on the home page.

Regards,
David

Do the tiles take you right back where you were?

I would prefer back buttons everywhere myself
And there used to be a couple at least that worked right.
And yes I know I can use the search, but I am not fond of the search.

Helen

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by speakingtohe

Do the tiles take you right back where you were?

I would prefer back buttons everywhere myself
And there used to be a couple at least that worked right.
And yes I know I can use the search, but I am not fond of the search.

The tile is labelled with the shelf name and reopens that shelf. I don't normally use shelves so the only two shelves I have contain 4 and 6 books so only one page needed to display. I could add my Grantville Gazette collection to a shelf to see if it goes back to the last book opened on that shelf.

Regards,
David

[93terp]

Is 2.8.1 compatible with Calibre yet?