This level of responsiveness is powered by an incredibly fast processor, designed to keep up with every Kobo reader, so no matter your reading pace, each page turns smoothly at the tap or swipe of your finger. That’s it, back to reading, at the moment Harry Potter II, in Japanese, but on my Paperwhite, since there I have a nice Japanese-English dictionary.Browse your library, look up words, and switch between screens quickly, easily, and intuitively with Kobo Glo's highly responsive touchscreen. The web page of the kobohack-j project also mention a boot hack that allows booting from the external sd card slot, which would make it very easy to change/adapt things, without opening the device. But the updates will get lost with the next firmware update. reboot reader, it should show “Updating …”Īfter this the device will run the update binaries/libraries.copy new KoboRoot.tgz to KOBOeReader/.kobo/.Tar -xv -C KoboRoot -f kobohack-j/KoboRoot_hack.tgz if wanted, unpack the kobohack-j KoboRoot_hack.tgz, too.Tar -xv -C KoboRoot -f kobohack-j/KoboRoot.tgz unpack the kobohack-j KoboRoot.tgz into the unpacked original KoboRoot.Mkdir kobohack-j unzip -d kobohack-j kobohack-j-YYMMDD.zip Mkdir KoboRoot tar -xv -C KoboRoot -f KoboOriginal-2.6.1/KoboRoot.tgz unpack the original KoboRoot.tgz into a separate directory.Mkdir KoboOriginal-2.6.1 unzip -d KoboOriginal-2.6.1 kobo-update-2.6.1.zip Prerequisites: original firmware of Kobo (see this thread), kobohack-j-YYMMDD.zip (see here) Here is the procedure: Installation of kobohack-j I got the latest release of it and merged the adaptions into the KoboRoot.tgz, which will hopefully give faster response times for image-heavy books, and improvements for Japanese fonts. But there is a different project that recompiles some libraries for faster operation, and adds optionally sftp/ssh servers and other features, kobohack-j. insert into the KOBO internal slot and rebootīut only internal memory extension is not really useful, who carries billions of books at the same time.copy image onto the new SD card (adaption of device necessary).make image of external SD card (adaption of device necessary).extract internal SD card (again see this thread for images and explanations).Here are the steps once more with approximate commands: Memory upgrade of the built-in SD card Flip the card into the slot and start the reader, and voila, there are now around 7G of space available. That image I dumped onto my new 8G super-fast SD card, and used again gparted to extended the last (fat32) partition and file system to the full size. Thus, a simple resize operation using gparted or an other of the partitioning programs (see the above guide for Windows programs) will immediately give you double the size for documents.Īfter having removed the original SD card, I immediately made a image of the card. ![]() Another nice thing is that the built-in card is actually 4G card, but only 2G are available due to the factory formatting. On the photo to the left the slot is clearly visible in the middle (with the card removed). When you have finally removed the back cover, there is a nice surprise: The memory the device is running from is nothing but a standard SD slot with a completely normal Micro-SD-card. ![]() Opening is actually quite easy, I used my id card. This is possible, since internally the Kobos are just small Linux computers.Ĭoncerning the internal memory upgrade, there is an excellent guide at the MobileRead Forum, which I simply followed. But today, I don’t want to compare these two items, my plan was to upgrade the internal memory of the Glo, and at the same time update some libraries and programs for faster operation. ![]() The Kobo Glo has more or less the same specs as the Paperwhite, one notable advantage of the Glo is that one can turn the backlight off completely, while this is not possible on the Paperwhite. Due to permanent fights over my Kindle Paperwhite, I decided to get another eBook Reader, the Kobo Glo (warning – from Japan you will be automatically redirected to the Japanese page at rakuten), so that my wife and me can read in parallel.
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