Edit quotes

[Mimzy]

Someone asked for quotes from women without leaving any of their favorites, so I went and found some that I liked.

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” ~ Helen Keller

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.” ~ Anais Nin

“What I cannot love, I overlook” ~ Anais Nin

“Sometimes questions are more important than answers.” ~ Nancy Willard

“A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.” ~ Jane Austen

“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.” ~ Virginia Woolf

“The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.” ~ Ayn Rand

“Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent.” ~ Jean Kerr

“Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.” ~ Rita Mae Brown

And my favorite, even though it's not a quote by a woman:

"Biologically speaking, if something bites you, it is more likely to be female." ~ Desmond Morris

(I love me my bug quotes.)

[Samantha45]

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute. - Rebecca West

[Samantha45]

Originally Posted by HarleyB

Gosh well you really do need to be careful what you ask for!

I just discovered you get the quotes when you go the table of contents and picking a chapter. Since I've been reading by pressing the right side of the D-button (and when I load the book it goes to the last page I read of course) I don't see the quotes.

Doesn't everyone read this way?

[billingd]

Just had a quick look through the 1.4 firmware (SD card image) looking for the quotes.

I unpacked the firmware upgrade file. Among other stuff, it contains two large files:

• files/eb600em/fs.tgz (39 MB) Looks like the new filesystem
• files/books/drm_book.tgz (77 MB) Definitely the book database

Unpacking fs.tgz we find the quotation strings in the shared library usr/local/Kobo/libnickel.so.1.0.0.

It was the best of times,<br>it was the worst of times.
~ Charles Dickens
The greatest masterpiece<br>in literature is only a<br>dictionary out of order.
~ Jean Cocteau
Any sufficiently<br>advanced technology<br>is indistinguishable<br>from magic.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
I don't necessarily agree<br>with everything I say.
~ Marshall McLuhan
I've been on the verge of<br>being an angel all my life,<br>but it's never happened yet.
~ Mark Twain
The good ended happily,<br>and the bad unhappily.<br>That is what fiction means.
~ Oscar Wilde
A grapefruit is just a lemon<br>that saw an opportunity<br>and took advantage of it.
No pressure,<br>no diamonds.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Big shots are only little shots<br>who keep shooting.
~ Christopher Morley
Books are the carriers of<br>civilization. Without books,<br>history is silent, literature dumb,<br>science crippled, thought and<br>speculation at a standstill.
~ Henry David Thoreau

You will need to compile the firmware from source to change the quotes (or be very handy with a binary editor). The binary package doesn't contain a database or text file that can be easily replaced.