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Topic: Why do I keep messing up! (rant)

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Subject: Why do I keep messing up! (rant)
Date Posted: 2/15/2015 9:25 AM ET
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The Kobo reader, used in conjunction with Calibre and some plugins, is perfection. So leave it to me to mess it up. Not just once but again and again. Why do I forget the adage "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!" No, instead, I just have to try new hacks. So now I have one processing content for an hour, and another doing a log out/log in to rebuild the data base. All because I wanted to try an alternative reader. Which I don't need! Grrr to me. I need to quit playing with my toys and read more!

The other two Kobos are safe...I just hope I have learned my lesson! You'd think I wouldn't mess with them again after the last time, but a new version was released, so I had to try it. Worked at first, then major fail. Hopefully I won't have to factory reset them, did that last week darn it.

So let this be a lesson, to me, at least! Kobo is a perfect reader so don't mess it up!

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Date Posted: 2/15/2015 10:26 AM ET
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At least you can do more than just turn it on and read. I can barely figure out Calibre and I wouldn't know how to hack anything if someone held a gun on me, lol.

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Date Posted: 2/15/2015 10:31 AM ET
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What kind of reader do you use, Mary?

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Date Posted: 2/15/2015 11:05 AM ET
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I've never tried hacking one of my ereaders either Mary.  Calibre I use for stripping the DRM from my ebooks and tagging them how I want, other than that, not much.

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Date Posted: 2/15/2015 12:07 PM ET
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I am going to have to factory reset at least one of them. Waiting for the other to finish processing then I'll know if I have to factory reset that one, too. Dag nab it.

Only had to reset my Glo. The Aura is fine, now. So now the Glo has to be reloaded. The processing tends to take a long time. At least my Aura is ready to go.



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Date Posted: 3/1/2015 7:54 AM ET
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Well, after a fall, the Aura is broken. Oh, it still works, but 85% of the screen is frozen. Darn it! I really liked the size of that little reader.



Last Edited on: 3/1/15 7:54 AM ET - Total times edited: 1