{"id":224,"date":"2014-10-11T23:27:34","date_gmt":"2014-10-11T23:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/?p=224"},"modified":"2014-10-11T23:27:34","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T23:27:34","slug":"kobo-glo-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/2014\/10\/11\/kobo-glo-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Kobo Glo – Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

I posted my initial impressions of my new Kobo Glo here<\/a>, and I’m now in a position to improve on\u00a0 my thoughts having read most of Robin Hobb’s Farseer trilogy on it by now as well as a couple of shorter books.<\/p>\n

So my fears of not being able to use the Kobo Glo one-handed were unfounded.\u00a0 It did take some tweaks to the default settings, specifically you can set it up to turn pages by a simple tap, rather than a swipe, and the “next page” tap can be configured to be either on the left or the right side of the screen.\u00a0 I put it on the left, since I generally hold the reader in my left hand and this setup allows me to go to the next page via a thumb-tap.<\/p>\n

The battery was down to about 50% after about 3 weeks of on-and-off reading, but I did use the backlight extensively. Still, when you have to charge your mobile phone every day these days, having to charge your eReader once a month doesn’t seem such a problem – the biggest issue is actually remembering to do so before heading off on a trip!<\/p>\n

I still think the bezel is a bit too big, but it fits into my coat-pocket so no huge issue there and I’ve gotten used to it. All up I haven’t had any problems comfort-wise holding the Kobo Glo, even during an 11 hour flight.<\/p>\n

I’ve also worked out how to sort books by Series (or whatever other criteria you like) by setting up Calibre <\/a>to create custom Collections. There’s a good article on how to do so on the MobileRead forum here<\/a>.\u00a0 So while the on-device book management remains somewhat primitive, using eBook management software mitigates these issues.<\/p>\n

So what do I think of the Kobo Glo now?\u00a0 I’d give it 4\/5. Not perfect, but definitely usable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Updated Kobo Glo review covering some of the early Cons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}