Glo How to side-load files to News and Magazines section
Hello, A simple (I think...) question from a newbie, but I could not see the answer anywhere in the forum. I fetch news from different sources every day through Calibre and send them to my Kobo Glo....
View ArticleGlo Red light from "under" the screen? top left corner
Just upgraded to the glo from using the touch for the last year. Really liking it, but when looking at the top left with a small viewing angle, you can see "under?" or behind the screen,and a red light...
View ArticleGlo A pessimistic guess about Kobo Glo's brightness limit.
Dear all, Many people have asked KOBO for a less bright light at the minimal light level, but till now KOBO never said anything about it. I'm afraid the bright limit is denpend on hardware, not...
View ArticleGlo Landscape mode for cbz/cbr (bug)
Hello, I recently bought a Kobo Glo and I'm quite happy with it. One of the features that drove my choice was the native support of .cbr and .cbz files, as I read comics from time to time in addition...
View ArticleArc Screen Issues
Been watching this forum for a while to learn about the kobo arc which was to be a Christmas gift for my partner. Unfortunately, I didn't finally make an account to discuss to a positive experience....
View ArticleArc Boxing week deal from Kobo
So, interested in getting a Kobo Arc but still not sure about it? The $20 gift card that was being offered not enough to seal the deal for you? How about a free Kobo Mini? Yeah. I gotta say, it's the...
View ArticleGlo An ebook processing flow that can improve your experience of reading PDF...
What I will introduce is just a high level (abstract) procedure (without change the actual layout of each pdf pages), different people might achieve each step in different detailed ways. Also, it will...
View ArticleMini Compiling software
How do we compile software for our Kobo's, also has anyone wrote a new os for them yet? Not based on Linux
View ArticleFixed layout in kobo
Hi, Is there any option to control the single page spread instead of default two page spread in fixed layout epub for Kobo reader. Thanks, Sundar :help:
View ArticleGlo A revised way of processing your pdf so you can read on kobo glo
After having an extensive discussion with jusmee, I realize (also inspired during that discussion) that for many situations, the procedures I provided in “An ebook processing flow that can improve your...
View ArticleMini Kobo Mini Bookmark question
Hi all I have just purchased a Kobo mini for my wife, i have one niggling problem with it that i cant seem to suss out. Basically when she reads a book and turns it off it does not go back to where she...
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Glo Earned another 1.9G from GLO
Today I took the internal sd out from GLO， found it is Sandisk, class4, the capacity is 4G. As I knew, GLO's space shoud be 2G, so I watched it's partition via LinuxReader, found 1.9g is unused. Then I...
View ArticleiOS app bug report
In the iPad Mini, if you choose to share a new award to Facebook or Twitter from the notification that appears along the bottom of the screen, the dialogue box drops off the bottom of the screen
View ArticleiOS app - free books list never changes!!
Why, when iOS users open the Kobo app on iOS, are they confronted with exactly the same list of free classic and popular books over and over again? Why do these never change or update?? I can...
View ArticleTouch Loading Books from Kobo Web store Without Syncing
I'd like to buy another book from the Kobo store and get it on my Kobo Touch, but I'm not too keen on updating the firmware as 2.1.5 is really stable for my needs and I don't want to experience another...
View ArticleConverted PDF
Hi, This has been mentioned in an old thread with no solution. I would like to read books from http://mendele.co.il/ on my kobo touch (ebooks in hebrew). It seems as if the kobo touch does not support...
View ArticleReplacing/upgrading a Mini (or other internal) SD card with Linux
You'll need either a full Linux installation or a live USB with at least 4GB of free space. Google "pendrivelinux" and the first result should be an entire site dedicated to telling you how to make a...
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Glo Controlling the Glo's Frontlight
I was looking at a strace of nickel today, and found that the Glo's frontlight is controlled by ioctl calls to /dev/ntx_io. I hacked together some quick C code to control the light: Code: #include...
View ArticleTouch Kobo is missing pages after converting from epub
Hi, It seems like my kobo can not work with epubs in hebrew, however when i convert the file to PDF everything is displying properly. but, every book i converted after about 20 pages is starting to...
View ArticleDictionnary mode and suspend
Hi. It seems that putting the Kobo (glo, 2.1) to sleep while in dictionnary mode (when a word is underlined) make it impossible to get back to a normal state when woken up. This use case may seem...
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