![]() ![]() Most importantly the Libra supports ePub natively, which makes it easy to download copyright-free classics from sites such as It’s still obvious that recentness, rather than curation or appropriateness, is governing what you get to see on even quite high-profile pages of the store.ĭon’t despair, however, because Kobo eReaders do far better than their Kindle peers when it comes to sideloading books from non-proprietary sources. At time of writing, perhaps through sheer luck, there were no eBooks that could be so termed, although three of the 24 books on show were in Spanish (even though we were on the British English version of the site) and several others, such as a collection of Tolstoy novels, were manifestly not short stories. Kobo’s Short Stories section, where in the past we have reliably found soft porn. We also made our by-now traditional visit to the front page of The company simply has access to far less user data than Amazon. Kobo eBook store, while offering a good range of titles both new and old, is far less able than the equivalent Kindle Store to offer user-tailored recommendations and useful curation. Most people will source most of their books from the official branded store tied to their reader, and the ![]() ![]() And we would recommend using sleep/wake rather than power off/on in any case, since it’s quicker and battery life probably won’t be a concern for you.īut what about eBook availability? This was our main concern with the Forma, and it remains so here. That appears to have been a one-off, fortunately, and reading has otherwise been a pleasant and unobtrusive experience. On one occasion the Libra behaved oddly after powering on, displaying the syncing symbol (even though we didn’t have Wi-Fi at the time) and then refusing to respond to taps or button presses when it finally landed on the home page. This is a standard offering, in other words. ![]() But IPX8 is now offered by Amazon’s Kindle Paperwhite and Oasis (although not its basic Kindle), and it’s also part of the Kobo Forma’s specs sheet. There was a time when water resistance was a killer selling point for an eReader, and it’s certainly handy for a device that by its nature tends to spend a lot of time next to swimming pools. (Now how to mark this thread resolved.The X part of the rating, in place of another number, indicates that it has not been rated for protection against dust and similar solid intrusions. Double checking the headers of all 30 or so files would probably be the better school solution, but the find/replace was very fast, so if someone else has this issue, I'd try it first. (You may want a leading ampersand a/o trailing semicolon to avoid false positives.) That was fast, and seems to have fixed it. No idea why my headers were only half correct.įIX: I used find and replace in Calibre's editor for all instances of nbsp to #160. Some of my embedded html files in the epub had a full header with a DOCTYPE, some didn't, which explains why this behaved inconsistently throughout the book. I'm guessing davidfor's files with nbsp worked because of correct headers. Tag nesting still worth checking to rule things out, could easily cause problems for some. I did not have errors with tags, calibre's error check didn't show any errors even when I still had this issue. Thanks for all your suggestions and help. I've seen this problem with code that looked like: The most likely culprit is incorrect nesting of tags. I'll try again during other hours, maybe it was just closed.)Īs Jon said, it is probably an error in the code. (I tried emailing Kobo support, the email address in this forum redirects to a live chat that no one answered. With this issue, it cuts the text then places the very next letter after cut text next, so you might get two words mashed together without a space.)Īppreciate any recommendations for how I can help diagnose what's going on. (In a post on an older Kobo, it seems like they could see the top few pixels of the next line of text then empty space on the device. I tried searching the forums, I found some issues about missing text, but they did not seem related. It reproduced, but didn't give me any clues about what in the epub was causing the issue. I even trimmed the epub down to the section that was having problems, to isolate it. I've tried altering fonts and spacing and margins, turning off the device, and reloading the epub. To make this harder to diagnose, it does not happen with all non-breaking spaces, or even all ellipses. It will just choke at the first non-breaking space and then skip several lines of text, sometimes all the way to the next Chapter heading. ![]()
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