Kobo wifi fonts

The specifications also cover the differences for Wi-Fi. As of September 17, Please note that this wiki does not always have the current device information.

For support via email, please contact Kobo at help kobo. You can also get information about the various devices, phone support, and chat with a Kobo rep linked. All the phone numbers are listed. It is a database application that manages the books on the Reader. The database is documented. There is an issue in the first release of the firmware — see this thread for more details and an automated utility to fix problematic ePubs.

See the discussion here. Note: Kobo has stated on their Facebook page that the upcoming firmware update will "extend" battery life. Currently the battery status meter found on the Menu screen of the Kobo eReader only updates when the device first powers up.

Therefore it might appear that the battery isn't depleting when in fact it is. To get an accurate reading you will need to power your Kobo eReader off and on again.

Note: Kobo has stated on their Facebook page that the upcoming firmware update will fix problems with the battery indicator. The free books are stored in the Kobo's internal SQLite database; there are no individual files for each book.

Be sure to backup the the database file before deleting it, and store the backup in a safe place this is not strictly necessary if you don't care about losing those free books. Once you have deleted the database, you need to sync the Kobo through the desktop app. This will create a fresh, empty database file. Note that this will not only remove the free books, but also any books loaded on the Kobo through the official desktop app or ADE. You will also lose all the bookmarks current page of any regular ePubs on the device the ePub files themselves will remain, and will be reprocessed as new books when the Kobo is unplugged.

If you are interested in selectively removing individual books, you can use Calibre. Since version 0. Currently the Kobo Desktop Application only allows you to transfer books purchased from Kobo to the eReader. For ePubs you can use one of the following methods:. To add a DRM protected ebook to your Calibre library, download the protected file with the appropriate client software if necessary Adobe ADE, Sony Reader software, etc , locate the file, and import it into Calibre like any other book.

Ebooks with titles or author names containing apostrophes can sometimes cause this spurious 'locked' message and render the ebook unreadable on the Kobo although you can read the ebook using Calibre on your computer. Less than six months after the release of the first generation Kobo eReader, Kobo has released a wireless version that connects to the Kobo ebook store for downloading ebooks and periodical subscriptions to the reader itself.

Aside from the added wireless, the Kobo WiFi comes with some hardware upgrades as well. It has a new processor for faster page-turning, battery life is longer, and it comes with a newer Vizplex screen that supports 16 shades of gray, twice as much as the previous model.

For various reasons I never got around to reviewing the original Kobo eReader that came out earlier this year, so this review comes from the perspective of someone new to the Kobo Reader. To be honest, I really wasn't expecting much from the Kobo WiFi because I know that it falls into the category of a basic ebook reader.

It doesn't have as many features as the Kindle, Sony Readers , or Nook: It doesn't have the new Pearl screen, it doesn't have any kind of note-taking or highlighting capabilities, and there's no touchscreen or web browser. But it does have its own advantages. To top that off the things the Kobo WiFi does do it does well. Much like the Kindle, it is designed to be an ereader that anyone can easily learn to use, even without needing to use a computer.

The WiFi connection gives it the ability to be completely independent. You can download all your books from the Kobo book store with it, including free ebooks, or add your own ebooks via computer. Ergonomically, it has good balance and is comfortable to hold.

The back panel and navigation wheel have a nice textured, rubbery feel to them. I do wish it had some page turn buttons on the right side of the screen though, to make it easier to hold one-handed. There are four buttons that run along the left edge for Home, Menu, Shop, and Back. While reading you can press the center of the navigation button to bring up the Menu, and press the up and down buttons on the nav controller to change font size.

You can even borrow ebooks from local libraries to read on the Kobo WiFi using a desktop application called Adobe Digital Editions to transfer the ebooks to the Reader. From the menu you can jump to the next and previous chapters and move between chapters using the table of contents. Any books loaded onto the Kobo using the official desktop application will show page numbers per chapter. All other books will show page numbers over a total count. They're tarballs in git ugh and lack version history, but they've kept their patches to libraries separate from the original library archives so it's pretty usable.

Unfortunately they haven't kept their kernel patches if any separate from the original eb 2. The Epson S1D display driver is included as binaries without sources, but appears to be a backport to 2. In addition to the libraries and kernel used on the device, the sources to some helper programs like the wifi monitor daemon have been released, though there was no legal requirement to do so.

The Kobo user interface program that runs on the device is not open source and is not included. It's unfortunate that the code to the app isn't published, as it uses the Qt Embedded toolkit and would be fun to enhance and tweak.

Many improvements are desired by the community and could be made if only the code or even a plugin interface existed. Soapy frogs has some documentation on this. Although Kobo makes it very easy to load your own fonts there are a few strict rules about filenames and internal font metrics for them to work properly. This uses Amazon Ember as an example. The Amazon firmware contains a lot of Ember font files. Make sure you pick a matched set of 4. The 4 original filenames are:.

Kobos have a strict file naming convention. The first part of the filename needs to match exactly the internal font name of Amazon Ember not Amazon-Ember.

For this particular font, the second part of the italic filename, -RegularItalic, needs to be replaced with -Italic. So rename as follows:. Unfortunately, this one is more complicated. Kobos don't like the Panose Weight font metric Amazon use inside some of their fonts. This needs to be manually corrected with a font editor utility, e. FontForge free or FontCreator not free. Jump to: navigation , search. Categories : Hardware Reader Kobo.

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