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Is there anything wrong with stock Kobo firmware? My paperwhite is pretty dated and I was thinking of jumping ship.

by vdnkh 10y ago

pekk 10y ago
Not at all, it's very good and would be the right thing if you wanted to be able to buy books from their store.
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lgeek 10y ago
They use Google Analytics to monitor your usage for one thing.
DanBC 10y ago
My Kobo mini had weird online activation requirement, and there's a bunch of gamification that makes no sense. It's a nicely hackable device though. http://uscoffings.net/clc/tech/embedded/kobo-touch/ http://uscoffings.net/clc/tech/embedded/kobo-touch/
- efesak 10y ago
  Yes especialy kobo mini is fun device. Large community of paragliding pilots are using it as flight computer by adding GPS and pressure sensor. See http://unity.paragliding.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Unity.jpg http://unity.paragliding.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Unit...
chme 10y ago
Missing directory browser and forcing to use their library. Good luck having a few thousand books on it. Oh and of course old kernel, security bugs, spying, etc.
- abawany 10y ago
  There is an additional side effect of the missing directory browser: every sync cycle results in it rebuilding its (apparently sql-lite) DB. This is particularly a problem if you happen to have a large number of books - one ends up waiting 15 minutes or more for this process to complete. As soon as I could, I moved my Kobo Aura HD to KOReader+FileManager.
sdfin 10y ago
I did that and bought a Kobo to replace an old Kindle I had. But after a month I sold the Kobo and got a new Kindle. The reason was that Kobo has a sliding power button that allows you to turn it on/off. This is different that putting it to sleep. In order to save battery, I often turned it off instead of leaving in sleep mode. This may be a minor difference, but Kindles don't give you that choice and I prefer Kindle's simplicity, which allows you not to care about how your decission between off/sleep would affect the charge. People talk about this topic in forums https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=146967 https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=146967

Is there anything wrong with stock Kobo firmware? My paperwhite is pretty dated and I was thinking of jumping ship.

by vdnkh 10y ago

Is there anything wrong with stock Kobo firmware? My paperwhite is pretty dated and I was thinking of jumping ship.

pekk 10y ago

Not at all, it's very good and would be the right thing if you wanted to be able to buy books from their store.

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lgeek 10y ago

They use Google Analytics to monitor your usage for one thing.

DanBC 10y ago

My Kobo mini had weird online activation requirement, and there's a bunch of gamification that makes no sense. It's a nicely hackable device though. http://uscoffings.net/clc/tech/embedded/kobo-touch/ http://uscoffings.net/clc/tech/embedded/kobo-touch/

efesak 10y ago
Yes especialy kobo mini is fun device. Large community of paragliding pilots are using it as flight computer by adding GPS and pressure sensor. See http://unity.paragliding.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Unity.jpg http://unity.paragliding.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Unit...

chme 10y ago

Missing directory browser and forcing to use their library. Good luck having a few thousand books on it. Oh and of course old kernel, security bugs, spying, etc.

abawany 10y ago
There is an additional side effect of the missing directory browser: every sync cycle results in it rebuilding its (apparently sql-lite) DB. This is particularly a problem if you happen to have a large number of books - one ends up waiting 15 minutes or more for this process to complete. As soon as I could, I moved my Kobo Aura HD to KOReader+FileManager.

sdfin 10y ago

I did that and bought a Kobo to replace an old Kindle I had. But after a month I sold the Kobo and got a new Kindle. The reason was that Kobo has a sliding power button that allows you to turn it on/off. This is different that putting it to sleep. In order to save battery, I often turned it off instead of leaving in sleep mode. This may be a minor difference, but Kindles don't give you that choice and I prefer Kindle's simplicity, which allows you not to care about how your decission between off/sleep would affect the charge. People talk about this topic in forums https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=146967 https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=146967