![]() The first report I had was in mid November because calibre was no longer recognising the updated device. Is it possible to "clone" the internal memory over to my "upgraded" but not so usable Kobo?ġ.9.11 on the WiFi has been around for a couple of months. I do have access to another device that hasn't been upgraded. In the end, I really want my external SD access back, and am willing to revert to the older firmware to get it, but I can't find any information on how to do that. They seem to be entirely focused on the newer devices anyway. I'd report this all as bugs in the developer section of the forum, but their reporting instructions are so obtuse that I'm afraid to try. This is a minor irritation but really seems a pointless change. It seems odd too that the old firmware displays chapter headings with numerals and centered bold face ("Chapter 13") while the new firmware displays them right justified and spelled out in all caps, not bold ("CHAPTER THIRTEEN") even though the exact same ebook file is in use on both devices. So it takes a few more page turns the old way, so what? The newer display format is less readable.Ĥ. This is not as easy to read as the older version which left 1/8 or 1/4 blank margin at left and right. Display margins appear to have been eliminated, which runs the text right up tight to the screen edge. (I'm not sure the older firmware handled Italics either but at least it didn't insert spurious brackets or tags around them.)ģ. ![]() Possibly the fonts were replaced? For example, a free ebook from a commercial website now has difficulty with Italics (displays them in normal font but enclosed by |_ and _|) and cannot display an em dash in the text (substitutes a ? for it, which is a pain as this author uses a lot of dashes.) Same file still displays correctly on the N647 without the upgrade, with the dashes. Ebook files that were readable before the upgrade now have formatting issues. Another identical N647 without the upgrade sees those same three chips and recognizes the epub book files on them.Ģ. Tried 3 different working chips, it just doesn't see them. Problems identified after upgrade (which device said was successful):ġ. Kobo Wifi (the original black and white, non-touch screen model N647?) More specifics, in case anyone can use them: It also looks as if they didn't test things out very well on the older devices or with older epub files. I suspect the coders were doing what they thought of as "improving" the display usage, without regard for the preferences of the end user or the book producer. (A free book from a commercial distributor, one of those ones they use as give-aways.) The display of this book used to have a margin of one or two character widths around the edge of the screen, but now the text fills the screen right to the edge, which I find a bit distracting as well. It does affect the book I was reading at the time of the upgrade, which is a public-domain distribution. I don't know yet whether this affects everything or only certain files. ![]() Some characters, such as the long dash, are replaced by a question mark. ![]() ![]() Italic text is being displayed not as Italic but instead is enclosed in |_. I've seen something like this in other hardware in the past.Īnother disturbing issue with this upgrade, though: the screen display formatting has changed so that books that were displayed normally before the upgrade now have issues. When I have time, I'll try a different physical SD card because I have a suspicion that this is an error related to timing and initialization of the hardware. The external SD simply doesn't exist any more as far as it's concerned. So the internal memory is still accessible after all. The reader did once again recognize those and made them available. I then used the laptop and USB to copy a couple of titles from the external SD onto the internal memory. After restoring a copy of the pre-upgrade sqlite file (fortunately I had saved a copy,) the device can once again see the books on the internal memory. ![]()
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