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My 1st gen Kobo bit the dust.

I was reading "..Big Chests" merrily along when suddenly my advance button (the one I hacked so that I could use it comfortably) wouldn't respond. The screen would just stay "stuck" on page 58 of 4173. :( Plugging in the device to charge doesn't kickstart anything either.

I was really quite fine with the hack and extending the life of the Kobo. I've reset the device back to factory-setting long ago when I had left the device unused for a few years, but I don't think I want to go through all that again - even it would be possible.

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My 1st gen Kobo bit the dust.
I was reading "..Big Chests" merrily along when suddenly my advance button (the one I hacked so that I could use it comfortably) wouldn't respond. The screen would just stay "stuck" on page 58 of 4173. :( Plugging in the device to charge doesn't kickstart anything either.
I was really quite fine with the hack and extending the life of the Kobo. I've reset the device back to factory-setting long ago when I had left the device unused for a few years, but I don't think I want to go through all that again - even if it could be possible.

I'm pretty sure you could pick up an old Kindle for next to nothing..
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I'm pretty sure you could pick up an old Kindle for next to nothing..

I dunno if I want to go that route. I wouldn't know if it was ever dropped or abused, or it ever had "issues".

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Re: My 1st gen Kobo bit the dust.
By: August Abolins to All on Thu Oct 28 2021 03:40 pm

Hi All,
...Greets from my Telegram app!

My 1st gen Kobo bit the dust.

I was reading "..Big Chests" merrily along when suddenly my advance button ( one I hacked so that I could use it comfortably) wouldn't respond. The scre would just stay "stuck" on page 58 of 4173. :( Plugging in the device to charge doesn't kickstart anything either.

I was really quite fine with the hack and extending the life of the Kobo. I reset the device back to factory-setting long ago when I had left the device unused for a few years, but I don't think I want to go through all that agai even it would be possible.

Ciao!
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My condolences.

If there is something good to say about paper books is that their buttons don't get stuck.

You have to tape their covers back when they fall off though.

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Re: I'm pretty sure you could pick up an old Kindle for next to nothing..
By: John Dovey Firecat to August Abolins on Thu Oct 28 2021 05:42 pm

My 1st gen Kobo bit the dust.
I was reading "..Big Chests" merrily along when suddenly my advance but (the one I hacked so that I could use it comfortably) wouldn't respond. The screen would just stay "stuck" on page 58 of 4173. :( Plugging i the device to charge doesn't kickstart anything either.
I was really quite fine with the hack and extending the life of the Kob I've reset the device back to factory-setting long ago when I had left device unused for a few years, but I don't think I want to go through a that again - even if it could be possible.

I'm pretty sure you could pick up an old Kindle for next to nothing..

I wonld not pick a Kindle. I avoid Amazon like the plague, specially since they demonstrate they could cut access from books you had downloaded. No, thanks.

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Hello Richard Falken!

** On Friday 29.10.21 - 02:57, Richard Falken wrote to August Abolins:

My 1st gen Kobo bit the dust.

My condolences.

Just having that thing around brings back fine memories: how I
came upon it, the emergence of ebooks around that time, the
issues wrt DRM'd material, etc. In that sense it seems a shame
to get rid of it. But a few photos of it that I documented for
this echo will suffice.

If there is something good to say about paper books is
that their buttons don't get stuck.

Absolutely.. but at the time that the Kobo decided to commit to
eternal electron nothingness, I was not in the mood to read
anything else. :/ "..Big Chests" is primarily an ebook
product. And, I wasn't interested to read it from Calibre on a
laptop. I was flipping to other ebooks on the device when I
wanted a change, but I couldn't do that either.

On another note, I read Dune many years ago. I'm actually quite
surprised how much new interest (young and old) the book has
received. Today, I thought people would be happy with an
electronic version of it, but the nearly $15 mmpk is selling
quite well here. The ebook version is not much cheaper at $11.
People are telling me that they perfer the experience of
holding a real book.

One thing I won't miss on the Kobo Original: the inability to
get a sense how long a chapter is. With a real book, I like to
know how many more pages I might need to read before the end of
a chapter. Hopefully the more modern device will have a
chapter-size meter of some kind.

You have to tape their covers back when they fall off
though.

My place sells New and Used, but I don't keep any Used ones
that are falling apart. I do have on old children's edition of
Uncle Tom's Cabin that a previous owner used masking tape to
retain the covers. :( But I keep that one on display as a
curiosity; it has the original nasty words in it.
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Hello Richard Falken!

** On Friday 29.10.21 - 02:58, Richard Falken wrote to John Dovey Firecat:

I wonld not pick a Kindle. I avoid Amazon like the plague,
specially since they demonstrate they could cut access
from books you had downloaded. No, thanks.

Here in North America, another popular ebook supplier is
Chapters/Indigo. They could easily adjust a catalog at their
whim.

But can easily get around that by maintaining an air-gap
between the ebook store and your device. Kobo has a DT "app"
to buy their books (and it retains the catalog on file), but
you can load/copy the book in Adobe Digital Editions, and use
that to transfer the ebook to the device. ADE won't know what
books are suddenly tagged as banned.

In any regard, Kindle would not be my choice either. During
the early eReader days, Kobo or Nook had a greater appeal to
me. The early Kindles had too many buttons == too much that
can go wrong.
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