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Kobo has shipped another update of the firmware for their devices, new version is 3.3.0. I have used this to look at some other new (or new for me) features additions that I can...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

And again a new firmware from Kobo. After releasing , , and 3.0.1 in short time, now we are at 3.1.0. Here some short updates on my usual set. Firmware: for Kobo AuroHD/GLO 3.1.0...

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....

Not much time has passed since  was released, and here we are with another round, called 3.0.0. Although already late I booted up my laptop to try it out. Not many changes I found...

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...

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:...

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...

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...

[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....