07-11-2012, 03:06 PM | #151 | |
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07-11-2012, 03:07 PM | #152 | |
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07-11-2012, 03:19 PM | #153 | |
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07-11-2012, 03:21 PM | #154 |
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(I think they use their own DRM only because of the high price of the Adobe's)
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07-11-2012, 03:36 PM | #155 |
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No 2.0
I've installed the new desktop software and after sync with my Touch is completed it stops. There is no option to download the new 2.0 firmware. Is the firmware only available in certain countries or am I doing something stupid over here..?
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07-11-2012, 03:36 PM | #156 | |
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In particular it's about the existing kepub titles. You'd want to convert all of those. If it's a purely automatic process it'd still take a lot of computer time, which is cheap but not free. But you'd hope they'd have some manual checking which would be labour intensive and not cheap. Then you have all the existing kepub titles in people's libraries. Do you replace their copies in the cloud? Force them to re-download? What about files already on devices or sd cards or in calibre libraries? For that reason even if you phase out kepub as a format going forward you'd want to keep it for existing customers. You don't want them installing an update and finding they can't read half their books without re-downloading them all. And by "existing customers" I really mean current devices. If they drop support for kepub I'd expect them to do it in a new device. Then any associated costs can be part of the development budget of that device rather than a support cost of the current ones. And you don't piss off existing users. (as much as you would) |
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07-11-2012, 03:39 PM | #157 |
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07-11-2012, 03:41 PM | #158 |
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Something sorta neat. I made a shelf for one on my favourite authors. i bought the books in the series one at a time. When I chose by date added, this made the list sort the same as a series sort. I suppose this was because, as I said, I bought the series one book at a time in order. Interesting that it reads more than the day, too, as i bought in order, but several books on the same day.
Nifty. EDIT: It is more properly thought of as adding the books in the series order. This means that if for some reason, I want to have a complete list of books and I no longer had all of them on the device I would have to play with them by deleting them on device and then adding all of the books in to I'm Reading (that whole book marking bit) one at a time in the order I wanted to appear on the reader. Maybe more work than someone would want for older books, but very kewl as we find new series. Last edited by taming; 07-11-2012 at 03:53 PM. Reason: edit |
07-11-2012, 03:49 PM | #159 |
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Creating a top-sorted shortlist
The problem of having Shortlist coming toward the end of the alpha-sorted list of shelves can be resolved by creating your own list with a name starting with a punctuation mark, like
!Shortlist That shelf will sort ahead of a-z shelves. Of course, you'll have to manage your own shortlisting as the Kobo will, when it offers you the opportunity of adding to the Shortlist, add to its list, not yours. (Maybe hackfolk can suggest a way of renaming Kobo's Shortlist or making it sort on top?) BTW in terms of creating shelves, does Everyone know that --the little up arrow on the keyboard = Shift --tapping the up arrow twice = Caps Lock --after which, tapping it once will then default to unshifted |
07-11-2012, 03:54 PM | #160 |
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Keyboard oopses
The keyboard doesn't have either an ampersand or an underline. The first can be spelled out in, eg, a shelf name, but the underline is still necessary in entering URLs in the still-unsupported web browser*.
*If you haven't found it: tap the cogwheel icon / Settings / Extras / Launch Web Browser |
07-11-2012, 03:57 PM | #161 |
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Try just syncing your Touch over wifi completely disconnected from your pc. I've never updated through the kobo desktop program so I'm unsure of the process.
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07-11-2012, 03:59 PM | #162 |
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In my case it is with 2 kepubs and a sideloded epub in my library. I tested both to make sure it was not a format thing.
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07-11-2012, 04:01 PM | #163 |
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With much trepidation (leaving on vacation in two weeks), I upgraded to V2.0 last night. All went well and I settled in to continue reading my current library (epub) book.
Two observations: 1- Page turns are a little slower, enough to be a little annoying. 2- Checking into Annotations, I notice that the bookmark set at Chapter 23 is identified as "Bookmark: 5302% into chapter". When in Sleep Mode the screen says 53% Read. Sloppy math, me thinks... |
07-11-2012, 04:08 PM | #164 | |
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It wasn't the shortlist on the screen that people were complaining about - it was it defaulting (and staying there, for some) to advertising (euphemistically called "recommendations"). Dunno why anyone'd want a wishlist, personally, since there isn't any way to publicize it to your friends & family and have them buy it for you... Really, the only use seems to be to give Kobo marketing data. |
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