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Old 11-17-2017, 08:45 AM   #1
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Help with my new ereader

Hi, I've bought a Aura One but I'm doing little disappointing experience:

I downloaded my .mobi ebooks from my kindle paperwhite3 to the kobo and
I updated the firmware to the version 4.6.9995 but the device is still too slow to open several books and even to turn page!
Moreover I can't underline or use the popup dictionary at all...
What can I do?
Could anyone help me?

thanks
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Old 11-17-2017, 10:06 AM   #2
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Hi, I've bought a Aura One but I'm doing little disappointing experience:

I downloaded my .mobi ebooks from my kindle paperwhite3 to the kobo and
I updated the firmware to the version 4.6.9995 but the device is still too slow to open several books and even to turn page!
Moreover I can't underline or use the popup dictionary at all...
What can I do?
Could anyone help me?

thanks
Avoid using mobi formats on the Kobo.

Instead install and use calibre and use it to convert from mobi to either epub or kepub format.
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Old 11-17-2017, 03:06 PM   #3
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Hi, I've bought a Aura One but I'm doing little disappointing experience:

I downloaded my .mobi ebooks from my kindle paperwhite3 to the kobo and
I updated the firmware to the version 4.6.9995 but the device is still too slow to open several books and even to turn page!
Moreover I can't underline or use the popup dictionary at all...
What can I do?
Could anyone help me?

thanks
The mobi format support in Kobo's firmware dates back to the original Mobipocket format and Amazon made quite a few changes over the years since they purchased Mobipocket (an advantage of a proprietary format) so having issues with mobi format is pretty much to be expected. Highlighting and dictionary use are not supported on mobi.

As PeterT recommended, load your mobi format books into Calibre, update the metadata and covers, convert them to epub (or kepub) and send them to your Kobo.

I'm quite surprised that many of them would open since you made no mention of stripping DRM.
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Old 11-23-2017, 11:27 AM   #4
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It works!!

Thanks, I downloaded the plugins for calibre, enabled the fullscreenreading and insered the .css file to correct the margins and now the ereader works wonderfully!

But I was thinking: with this tweaks am I risking to brick or do harm to the device?

If they are safe, could you copy a link with others interesting features that I can enable with the Notepad++ ? (I searched but I haven't found a complete list)
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Old 11-24-2017, 04:24 AM   #5
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Don't worry, editing your .css file and converting book formats does not risk your new KA1.
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