Touch Kobo Touch future firmware feature request thread

[The Terminator]

I've had the Screen freeze problem too. I was reading a larger book ( The Three musketeers books from the MobileRead library that I merged together (4 books).)

[EricDP]

Originally Posted by PeterT

I think the issue is you don't want the decrease in battery life that continually updating the eInk screen for the time would incur.

Then make it an option -- for those that really want it and are willing to accept to drain on battery life, a clock would be quite useful. And is it really a significant drain?

I like the compromise that it updates the clock when the page turns... that's a feature I would like.

Also, in a previous post I was asking for total page numbers, not pages left in the chapter, to display progress in the book. I'd be happy with just a total progress bar overlapping the pages per chapter, the way the nook reader for BlackBerry does it.

[tecweston]

I wouldn't like the clock being on the actual page, as I prefer the screen to mimic the look of a real book as much as possible (one reason I hated the double spacing and non-justified text of the old Kobos), and there's no clock on a paper book. But when opening the menu (ie. pressing the middle of the page), a clock could come in real handy.

[The Terminator]

That's what we mean tecweston

[tecweston]

Originally Posted by moffattm

You could have the time sitting in the corner and only update it when the page is turned.

I was responding to this.

[Techbar]

The capability to sort all unread (including partially read) books to the top of the library list would be a great deal more use to me than 'Recent Reads'.

[Xennex1170]

Originally Posted by GHG

Hello, new here. I've had a Touch for several month and each new upgrade seems to fix some issues. Still a few glitches though.

I would really like to see a clock display somewhere on the screen. The Touch has a built in clock so it shouldn't be too hard to add a display, perhaps on the bottom in a corner? It sure would be handy.

Maybe add the time display to the right of the battery level which is displayed when you go to settings while in a book. Having that update in real-time while the settings screen is up would not be too harmful I would think since most people don't have that open for long.

[Xennex1170]

Originally Posted by Latch

To piggyback on your idea, an alarm would be an ideal companion feature to a visible clock. Some kind of visual alert that pops up in your book to inform you that an hour or whatever has elapsed, or however long you've set it to. Similar to what they have in the game Civilization to keep people from getting lost in time while playing.

That's a great idea! It would help for people that want to set a certain amount of time to read without getting too lost.. It would also help kids if they are 'assigned' a certain amount of required reading time by their parents.

[viduliya]

Originally Posted by IxiaAurea

I agree that going to the dictionary takes too many presses. Maybe use different buttons on the bottom bar - one for definition and one for translate rather than having to press a button to bring up the options.

I also agree that the dictionary access takes too many clicks. If you have a word selected, you should not always have to open and navigate a longer menu (as of 1.9.12) to access the dictionary. I do not see the point in having a coupled action of having to tap a menu open is forced after you have highlighted a word.

At least having the menu left open by default once a word is selected would reduce a tap to open the menu. I would love to have a separate button to have more direct dictionary access.

[rrrevin]

Originally Posted by Bookpossum

I don't know if this has come up before (too many pages to read them all), but being able to sort the library into "folders", eg Classics, SF/Fantasy, Mysteries, Other Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry, and then alphabetical order by author or title within each folder.

(Previously posted on a similar Kobo thread not specific to the Touch.)

Also add Titles by first letter, authors by first letter or just "author". Would be awesome if we could do this. Scrolling through page after page after page of book after book is monotonous.

[levil]

What I'd love to see is contrast settings in PDF. The Kindle (despite its shitty PDF reader) had this. And increasing the contrast made documents so much more readable. Now I take a LaTeX (article style, default font) PDF and it is unreadable. But with some extra contrast, it would look perfect. PDF readability would increase tremendously.

[Rockin]

(copied from the 1.9.12 thread - I thought this is a better place)

Since 99% of the time I move forward in a book I would like to simplify that process for someone like me that holds it with either hand and actually switches frequently. I think the new feature for customized tap regions is an improvement but it didn't go far enough. I would like to see horizontal region options along with the vertical regions they have. Myself, I would like the top 1/3 for going backwards, the bottom 2/3 for going forward, the menu stuck in the bottom middle of the 2/3 section like it currently is for the two new vertical options.

Another idea that would work for me is the complete area for moving a page forward, again minus the menu area. Then if I want to go backwards, I could swipe instead.

[psy65]

I have 2 suggestions for the next firmware update

1) at the bottom of the screen it displays the page we are currently reading and the total number of pages in the book. Since one page on the screen is not equivalent to one page in the book why not add the % of the book red. Just like when you turn the power off you can see that %.

2) when we are looking at the books available on the device. how about an option to see more meta datas for the book. In calibre you have a tag for the series and the number of the book in the serie. How how about the little summary that is displayed in calibre. That would be nice to have. Maybe I don'T know how to display it but it would be nice specially with a huge book collection.

let me know what you think

oh and the time would also be a nice addtion(someone mentionned this one)

[CodeZombie]

1- The ability to download and save images as book covers from the web browser. (It looks bad having most PDFs and Epubs with blank covers, or random text.)
2- Ability to execute javascript in offline HTML files. (for basic app support (I would be incredibly interested in writing a few Kobo programs with this framework))
3- Account backup files (I've had to force-off my Kobo a few times due to large epubs crashing the system, and when I reboot, My user data is gone, save a few stats)

[The Terminator]

Originally Posted by CodeZombie

1- The ability to download and save images as book covers from the web browser. (It looks bad having most PDFs and Epubs with blank covers, or random text.)

Calibre now has the support to load covers to epub's and Kepubs without having to delete or replace the files already on your Kobo.