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I can't imagine syncing my ebooks from the store directly to my reader because essentially every book anybody sells is wrong and I have to fix them.
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im on the net me boys posted:what the hell kind of problems are you having with your ebooks They indent at 1em.
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Space Fish posted:But the Kobo Aura One does have warm backlighting...? It also doesn't have a metal back, so he might be thinking of a different model.
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Apr 10, 2019 02:33
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The screen on my Kobo Aura One decided to stop responding about fifteen months into my ownership. Thankfully, Kobo were super helpful and agreed to replace it for free.
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Jul 19, 2019 16:56
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Kobo received my broken Aura One and shipped a new one back to me, so I'm pretty pleased without their services overall.
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Jul 26, 2019 16:47
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I’m interested to know how well the Boox follows the ePub spec.
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Jul 28, 2019 22:54
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fishmech posted:Why would the Boox have issues following the ePub spec? Certainly haven't heard people complain about it with Boox in the past, and the ePub spec is very simple. Loads of readers fail to follow the spec properly. In fact I know of zero that don’t have at least one weird quirk. The Boox I had several years ago regarded the different weights of all fonts other than the default as separate fonts, so that changing your font meant you either got all italics or no italics.
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Jul 28, 2019 23:02
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I was very annoyed to discover that even Readium, which has compliance as its whole rason d'etre, isn't compliant in what I consider major ways. (It doesn't do page-break-before.)
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Jul 31, 2019 19:09
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FreelanceSocialist posted:Been using it a few days, now. What exactly should I test? Well, it's hard to say exactly, since each reader tends to be idiosyncratic and you can't really predict what weird thing it might do, like Kobo not nesting the table of contents or iBooks insisting on a secret file in the spine before it will respect publisher font choices. Just anything you see that doesn't seem to work right.
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Aug 10, 2019 17:36
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Dicty Brojangles posted:I like the screen size on my Kobo Forma a lot, but the one "feature" that drove me so crazy as to switch back to my Kindle Oasis is how the Kobo epub reader reformats each page to avoid hanging paragraphs... I think?? In any case it has this super annoying habit of not using the full screen real estate and leaving huge empty swaths at the bottom of each page without any consistency as it pushes the paragraphs onto the next page to avoid hanging orphan lines. Plus, the backlight's inconsistency on the Forma is one of those minor annoyances that only sticks out more when you go back and forth to a Kindle, which is much more consistent with the lighting. If you check MobileRead you should find instructions on how to patch the firmware in ways that will help you adjust things like this by adjusting the widow/orphan settings. Not too hard, although I stopped using it now that it's not necessary to use it to enable full-screen mode.
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Aug 23, 2019 16:01
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If I had to guess, make sure Calibre is converting files to AZW and not MOBI to send them to the Kindle.
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Aug 31, 2019 18:17
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Nope, converting em to mobi. No, you want to not convert to MOBI. MOBI bad. Convert them to AZW3 instead.
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Aug 31, 2019 18:42
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Wibla posted:Uh, what? There are a fair number of EPUB features that MOBI doesn't support. It may not have been a noticeable problem for you yet, but I'd advise always converting to AZW3 if you have another format to start from — there's basically no reason not to.
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Aug 31, 2019 19:56
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I can't think of any decent e-readers that don't at least have Wi-Fi and some kind of associated store, but I've never actually used any of them. I just leave the thing in airplane mode and use Calibre.
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If I needed to replace my e-reader, I would not let a microUSB plug stop me. But if I were considering an upgrade to my e-reader, one of the main features that I would consider a genuine improvement would be a USB-C port for longer life and so that I could jettison the microUSB cord in my bag. This would be much more meaningful to me than a higher resolution that I don't need to read plain text or an improved backlight that I won't use.
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I, too, do not plan to upgrade until Kobo releases a model with a USB-C connector.
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Sep 29, 2020 22:47
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I would really want one of those devices except that they don't have enough storage for all my PDFs and aren't expandable.
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I really like the idea of an e-ink Android tablet but I'm not buying one until they make one with either enough storage for my PDF library or a microSD card slot. They don't seem to have a regular-sized e-reader with USB-C, either, so I'm not motivated to upgrade. I do kind of want to know how the software works, though. Is their built-in implementation of ePub nice? I'm not even sure what the top app for Android is anymore now that Readium is basically dead.
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I decided to go ahead and try out the Poke 3, so I'll let you know how I find it.
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Apr 4, 2021 05:10
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So far, the Onyx Poke3:
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Apr 7, 2021 21:17
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Kobo tends to reveal new products around Mother's Day, so you might actually do well to wait.
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Apr 16, 2021 05:20
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drat, the official cover for the Boox Poke3 literally works by gluing the reader into the case.
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Apr 16, 2021 18:40
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I've found Kobo customer support helpful (they replaced my Aura free of charge when it turned out not to be ocean-proof) and they issue more firmware updates than any other company I could name.
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May 24, 2021 21:50
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Has anybody gotten to try out the Kobo Elipsa in person as a PDF reader? I'm interested in having an e-paper PDF device that isn't $800, but it would have to be pretty good to put up with the fact that 32GB isn't going to be able to hold my entire RPG collection at once.
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Soysaucebeast posted:Oh ew, you can't expand the storage at all? I don't think I could live with only 32gigs on an e-reader. My Amazon library is 20-something gigs by itself, and I have about 150 books outside of that (I'm not sure the size of that collection). And if you're talking about adding RPG books, that's easy another 5-10 gigs for me. Now my husband loves to say I'm a digital hoarder because I keep everything downloaded at all times, but I just jump from book to book so often it makes more sense to do that instead of using my data all the time to delete and download stuff. To be fair though, about a quarter of my library is comics/manga and those are way bigger than normal books. That sounds like an incredible pain to do on your phone, but as someone who's scanned in a bunch of books to make ePubs of in his time, I'm going to say that you'll save yourself a lot of suffering if you just shell out $100 for some decent OCR software like FineReader and just turn your scans directly into ePubs. It really does leave you with fewer errors than most of the free alternatives.
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Soysaucebeast posted:I've actually been using Google Docs as my OCR. If I force my scanned images to open as a google doc then it does the majority of the work for me. I get some L=I=| shenanigans, but I can find that easy enough with a font change. the only issue is that I have to do it page by page, because if I merge everything into one big file, google just opens a blank page instead of doing its OCR thing. Oh my god that sounds horrendous
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Jul 14, 2021 01:23
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Forma can do all that stuff but web browsing on e-ink is always going to be terrible.
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Elipsa doesn't do apps, so that won't suit your needs.
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Aug 12, 2021 23:29
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Corin Tucker's Stalker posted:Does anyone else with a Kobo find that 9 out of 10 pages have a gap at the bottom where several more lines could have fit? Check out MobileRead and you'll find some firmware patches that can adjust this.
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Sep 14, 2021 18:43
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That and the battery lasts for weeks.
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Oct 1, 2021 00:44
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Yeah, Calibre runs great on everything and makes life very easy, just use it.
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Oct 10, 2021 21:12
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In general, Calibre does so many useful things that I'd say you're crazy not to use it even if all you want to do is throw books on your device.
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I'm gonna say Kobo, yeah, and the Libra 2 is probably the best casual pick right now.
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Dec 8, 2021 06:52
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Kestral posted:How do folks here feel about the Kobo Sage? While it seems like overkill for just reading books, it occurs to me that I do need to replace an ancient dying tablet that I use for PDFs (including tabletop RPG PDFs, so I'm particularly curious about Rand Brittain's take on the subject), which might make it worth it to me over something like the Libra 2, which is just too small for that use. The Sage is neither big enough, nor fast enough, to comfortably use for most RPG PDFs. Neither is the Elipsa, or any other device I know of. Honestly, part of the problem is that most RPG PDFs are just not designed with e-ink screens in mind (and there's really no reason why they should be). White Wolf books, for instance, all use Goudy as their body text font, and it looks terrible on e-ink at any resolution because it's spindly and the screen can't hint it properly. Blockier fonts look fine but they're much less common, and the two-column set-up that most RPGs use is ill-served by portrait mode and requires flipping back and forth slowing in landscape mode. The technology is just not there, and e-readers should stick to RPGs in ePub format for the time being (sadly, my ePubs are still the only decent ones in the industry that I'm aware of).
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Dec 13, 2021 00:12
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Archive them all?
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Dec 31, 2021 09:26
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You might try one of Onyx' Boox devices, which are basically e-paper Android devices in various sizes, but suck at doing most of the things that would probably distract you on a tablet. KOreader is one of the few apps that actually does everything I would want an e-reading app to do, and it works beautifully on the Boox.
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That, and the fact that they can use the official Android apps for pretty much any bookstore you were already invested in, on top of being able to use individual reader apps. (If you're interested, they're on Best Buy's website, which is probably a lot more convenient than ordering directly from the manufacturer.) Rand Brittain fucked around with this message at 19:31 on May 15, 2022 |
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May 15, 2022 19:28
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A lot of devices feel like they're meant for a case. The Libra 2, to me, feels flimsy and unbalanced without its case on but feels absolutely perfect inside it.
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May 26, 2022 05:27
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Silly Burrito posted:Does anyone else keep their Calibre library in Dropbox or some other cloud storage? Makes it a lot easier to switch devices since the main library is hosted in the cloud instead of on my PC. Yeah, I just keep it in Dropbox. Calibre advises you not to do this but it hasn't caused me too many issues. (Most of the ones I've had are Calibre throwing an error when I try to change the metadata of a file that hasn't uploaded yet.)
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Digital Jedi posted:Just got a Kobo Libra 2 and I'm not exactly sure what's happening. That seems abnormal. Want to post a picture of what you're seeing? You may also want to grab some free ebooks off a source that makes quality ereader files like Standard Books and try those to see if it's file-specific.
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