Just got a Kobo Sage. Have 2-3 questions.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by pypeke

I know the Sage's battery life is not that great, but I thought it would last more than 1-2 days.

I read last night on Dark mode with the light at 10%, Wifi off, and Bluetooth off. I had it set to go to sleep after 5 minutes.

This morning the Sage is at 25%. Not good. I charged it yesterday in the morning, but did not use it until about 8:00 p.m. When I plugged it in to me laptop to send Calibre books to it, it charged while I downloaded books.

That does sound a bit on the short side. How many hours reading per day were you averaging?

Originally Posted by pypeke

3. Dark mode box needs easier access. I wish they would have put the checkbox for dark mode next to the orientation, light, and fonts. I have to go through settings.[

You can add a Dark Mode toggle to NickelMenu and make it available on the ... menu on the reader page. See attached image.

Originally Posted by pypeke

4. Font Settings Advanced: What a mess! I tried to change the WEIGHT of the font, but it was screwed up. For some reason, using the + and - did the same thing. BOTH made the font width bigger. The minus button should have made it thinner, not bigger.

Sorry but I don't see that here. See the attached images for ChareInk6 set to minimum and maximum weigth. What font are you using?

5. Refresh: I set it to refresh at every new chapter. Could not make it refresh any less. When in dark screen mode and when I turned the page to begin the next chapter, the screen flashed to regular mode then reverted to dark mode. It flashed way too bright after looking at a dark gray screen. I had to remember to close my eyes before turning the last page in a chapter. It does the reverse when in regular mode - flashes to dark mode then back to regular mode. Dark mode is a medium gray, not really dark or black. I prefer dark gray or black.[/QUOTE]

Odd. I can set the refresh down to every page. And what you are seeing is a triple flash to rewrite the screen to clear up ghosting. The screen is written white-black-white to reset the cells. It is a lot more noticeable in dark mode but that's life.

Originally Posted by pypeke

6. When reading a downloaded book or a Kobo Plus free book, the upcoming page number appeared superimposed on the last letter of a word on the right side of the screen. In dark mode, the page number is in a gray box. In regular mode, the page number is normal black font. It is just irritating.

That is a Adobe page number. This should not appear on a Kobo Plus or Kobo Epub book since the Webkit-based renderer is not able to display Adobe synthetic page number algorithm generated page numbers. The only time you should see this is if the book type shows in Books as EPUB. You can turn off those numbers on the Reading settings page.

Originally Posted by pypeke

7. Justification: I don't think the OFF button works at all. Some books had 2 or 3 spaces after a contraction's apostrophe. "Can't" showed up as "can' t", etc. This was on Calibre books and Kobo Plus books. Left justification did better, but it still had extra spaces after an apostrophe.

One of the reasons that I edit ebooks. If an epub ebook's CSS says to use justified, that is what you will see.

Originally Posted by pypeke

8. Ghost image: I have no idea why or how this happened.

Ghosting is an artifact of eInk. You can tap the center of the screen twice to refresh the screen and get rid of ghosting. Several posters set their screens to refresh every page since they tend to be sensitive to ghosting. The only time I really notice it is on images.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by DNSB

One of the reasons that I edit ebooks. If an epub ebook's CSS says to use justified, that is what you will see.

I set the text to justified in the css of all my books and OFF on my Kobos. Never seen that spacing after the apostrophe (unless it's supposed to be there). Just checked on my Sage, which has kepubs - nope. No instances of can't had a space after the apostrophe.

Something else is going on here.

[Quoth]

It's a symptom of converting PDFs to ebooks.

Dark mode is really for mono CRTs and OLED power saving. Needs more front ilght on eink, so try using regular mode and front light off.

I've seen three Sage models with other family members and we have two here. Your Sage experience doesn't match ours.

A Sage is 8″ so the front light needs nearly twice the power of a 6″ ereader, and "darkmode" needs higher brightness.

You've got poorly formatted ebooks.

[pypeke]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

#6 is RMSDK page numbers on the right side of the screen. This can be turned off.

Setting > Reading Settings (page 2) > Show Adobe EPUB page numbers

Turn this off.

That worked. Thanks.

[pypeke]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

#6 is RMSDK page numbers on the right side of the screen. This can be turned off.


Setting > Reading Settings (page 2) > Show Adobe EPUB page numbers

Turn this off.

Done.

Originally Posted by DNSB

That does sound a bit on the short side. How many hours reading per day were you averaging?

Maybe 3 hours at night.

You can add a Dark Mode toggle to NickelMenu and make it available on the ... menu on the reader page. See attached image.

What is nickelmenu and how do I fix it?

Sorry but I don't see that here. See the attached images for ChareInk6 set to minimum and maximum weigth. What font are you using?

5. Refresh: I set it to refresh at every new chapter. Could not make it refresh any less. When in dark screen mode and when I turned the page to begin the next chapter, the screen flashed to regular mode then reverted to dark mode. It flashed way too bright after looking at a dark gray screen. I had to remember to close my eyes before turning the last page in a chapter. It does the reverse when in regular mode - flashes to dark mode then back to regular mode. Dark mode is a medium gray, not really dark or black. I prefer dark gray or black.

Odd. I can set the refresh down to every page. And what you are seeing is a triple flash to rewrite the screen to clear up ghosting. The screen is written white-black-white to reset the cells. It is a lot more noticeable in dark mode but that's life.

I can set it to every page but that just means that I will get more bright flashes, not less. It is really bright. I did not have that problem with a tablet.


That is a Adobe page number. This should not appear on a Kobo Plus or Kobo Epub book since the Webkit-based renderer is not able to display Adobe synthetic page number algorithm generated page numbers. The only time you should see this is if the book type shows in Books as EPUB. You can turn off those numbers on the Reading settings page.


Done.

One of the reasons that I edit ebooks. If an epub ebook's CSS says to use justified, that is what you will see.

Editing sounds like too much work for me. It really is a pain to read. There must be more spaces than I thought after the apostrophe. I keep having to re-read.... 't looks like "I" sometimes which makes no sense so I reread it. Just a pain when the author constantly uses contractions. I have never seen this happen before I started using Calibre. Not on my old Nooks, Fire tablet, or Android tablet.

I don't know what CSS is...

Ghosting is an artifact of eInk. You can tap the center of the screen twice to refresh the screen and get rid of ghosting. Several posters set their screens to refresh every page since they tend to be sensitive to ghosting. The only time I really notice it is on images.[/QUOTE]

I don't ever remember seeing ghosting on my old Nooks. So I can double tap to refresh. So in dark mode, I will have bright flashes more often. I only noticed the ghosting on 1 page and only 1 time.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by pypeke

Editing sounds like too much work for me. It really is a pain to read. There must be more spaces than I thought after the apostrophe. I keep having to re-read.... 't looks like "I" sometimes which makes no sense so I reread it. Just a pain when the author constantly uses contractions. I have never seen this happen before I started using Calibre. Not on my old Nooks, Fire tablet, or Android tablet.

Well, I've never seen it happen either, not on any of the ereaders I've ever used. And I'm not seeing it on my Kobos, including the Sage.

Do you see it in every book?

[pypeke]

I figured it out.

It is a bad font called AR UDJingxihei.

I can change the FACE font to Malabar and the Supplemental font (if any) to Caecilia. I close the book, open a different book, the font has gone back to the bad font.

I can change the fonts on the 2nd book, and go back to the 1st book, and one or both of the fonts has reverted back to the bad font.

I can close the 1st book and check the fonts again on the 2nd book and those fonts have reverted too.

The bad font is 2nd on the font list and is after "Publisher Default". I don't know why the Kobo doesn't choose the publisher default instead of the bad font.

Is there a way to remove that bad font from the Kobo?

I am still having problems with the WEIGHT slider under "Advanced". The font SIZE slider works correctly. The WEIGHT slider make the font bigger....never smaller or thinner.

I can hit the + and make the font thicker. (It really only looks larger, not thicker.)

If I hit the - it should make the font thinner. If I keep hitting the - , the font only gets larger and larger. Then I cannot hit - slider anymore.

Maybe I am misunderstanding what the weight minus slider does?

Thanks

[DNSB]

Once you have set a secondary font for a book, it will remain until you change it for that book. Once you have made the change on a book, that will be the default for new books until you make another change.

Again, which font are you trying to change the weight on. I just went through every font installed on my Sage and can't duplicate what you are seeing.

[pypeke]

laptop onscreen keyboard is messed up> cannot type commas or periods> must use caps lock to type lower case

[pypeke]

I am having trouble posting. By the time I type a response, the part I have typed disappears. could be internet issues.

[pypeke]

... I have tried Georgia, caecilia, Rakuten sans, Amasis, Gill sans, malabar, ...

[pypeke]

...Sage was reconditioned. Battery lasts less than 24 hours. Auto rotate freezes.

It is going back to Kobo. I will probably get a Libra Colour even though I don't want color.

[pypeke]

If I knew how to post photos of what it is doing, I would.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by pypeke

If I knew how to post photos of what it is doing, I would.

Go to Advanced when replying and click on the paperclip icon to attach a photo.

[pypeke]

I kept trying to use the photo looking icon.... Thanks.