Tagged: eBook

Kobo Glo kobohack-j 140315 0

Kobo Glo kobohack-j 140315

A new release of the kobohack-j package brings updates to freetype (2.5.3), sqlite (3.8.2.1), dosfstools (3.0.26), and libpng (1.6.10). The hack part sees the addition of busybox (1.22.1), as well as updates to gdb...

PDF is not eBook 0

PDF is not eBook

Nowadays the eBooks market contributes a ever growing share to publishers revenue. According to the BookStats report 2013, it constitutes about 20% of the whole book market in the US (source: Association of American...

Kobo Glo firmware 3.2.0 et al. 0

Kobo Glo firmware 3.2.0 et al.

After some calm period a new firmware for the Kobos, all of them. The latest one being 3.2.0. The new firmware brings several changes to the handling of selection and related operations like highlighting,...

Kobo Glo kobohack-j 140113 4

Kobo Glo kobohack-j 140113

A new release of the kobohack-j package brings the addition of parted (partition manager) and the necessary libuuid, as well as updates to freetype (2.5.2), libpng (1.6.8), and sqlite (3.8.2). Installation is as usual...

Kobo Glo firmware 3.1.1 et al. 0

Kobo Glo firmware 3.1.1 et al.

And another one – they are quick. But slowly it seems to settle. After releasing , , 3.0.1, and in short time, now we are at 3.1.1. And it brought a few improvements. Firmware...

kobohack-j updated for Kobo firmware 3.0.0 0

kobohack-j updated for Kobo firmware 3.0.0

Just short time ago the kobohack-j maintainer has uploaded a new version kobohack-j-131116.zip of his package that updates several libraries of the Kobo firmware, and on, my request, also includes a fixed openssl binary....

Compiling for Kobo Glo 2.10.0 on Debian/sid 3

Compiling for Kobo Glo 2.10.0 on Debian/sid

More for my own rememberance here is how I did set up a development environment for compiling programs for my Kobo (running firmware version 2.10.0 atm). Why would one do that? One of the...

Kobo Glo firmware 2.10.0 – first impressions 12

Kobo Glo firmware 2.10.0 – first impressions

On the mobileread forum the link to the new firmware 2.10 for the Kobo Glo was just posted. I tried it out immediately. Normal operation The new items I found after upgrading from 2.8.1:...

Kobo Glo, WiFi, 2.8.1 and some more hacks 0

Kobo Glo, WiFi, 2.8.1 and some more hacks

One inconvenience of the Kobo Glo is that it turns off the wireless very soon. That means that if you are logged into your , you might get dropped out soon. This post describes...

ssh (or telnet) on the Kobo Glo 4

ssh (or telnet) on the Kobo Glo

The Kobo Glo is a very nice device, but it lacks besides other things the ability to make screen shots. And it does not have an ssh or telnet server activated, so you cannot...

Kobo Glo firmware 2.8.1 and kobohack-j 8

Kobo Glo firmware 2.8.1 and kobohack-j

[For update blog entries see for an update for firmware 2.10, and  for 3.1.1]. I recently reported about how to . One of the items was installing optimized libraries compiled from the kobohack-j project....