Kobo has began rolling out software program updates for his or her line of ereaders, and in contrast to the final replace that was solely obtainable for his or her new fashions, this one is offered for just about all of them (besides the few fashions they now not replace, just like the Kobo Mini and the primary couple of non-touchscreen Kobos).
It appears like Kobo goes to have completely different software program variations for his or her new fashions shifting ahead. The brand new firmware model for his or her older fashions is 4.38.23171, and the model for his or her three new fashions—the Kobo Libra Color, the Clara Color, and the Clara BW—is 4.41.23145.
The replace provides a brand new dictionary for 2024, the Oxford Dictionary of English. And Kobo improved the parental controls and the OverDrive setup course of, they usually mounted a syncing problem.
The Kobo Libra Color additionally bought the choice to wake the system by urgent the page-turn buttons, however oddly none of Kobo’s different fashions with web page buttons checklist that function within the launch notes.
Hopefully that doesn’t imply they’re going to start out holding again new options on their older fashions now. It’s bizarre how they up to date all of them, however solely the Libra Color will get this new function.
Launch Notes
Right here’s the complete checklist of launch notes for the newest replace:
Wake with page-turn buttons
- In case your Kobo Libra Color is asleep, you possibly can press both page-turn button to wake it up
- You’ll be able to disable or allow this function in Settings > Power saving and privateness
Sync enhancements
- Fastened: Sync can change into caught at ‘updating annotations’ after creating sure markups
Parental controls
- Improved readability round Parental Controls (Extra > Settings > Accounts)
- Your eReader will now forestall sideloaded books and paperwork from being added to My Books whereas parental controls are enabled
- For extra info on parental controls, go to kobo.com/households
OverDrive (obtainable on latest Kobo eReader fashions in choose international locations)
- Improved readability of OverDrive setup; OverDrive is the service that powers the Libby app
Dictionary
- Up to date the English Dictionary to Oxford Dictionary of English (2024)
Obtain Software program Replace
There are two methods to replace the software program on Kobo’s ereaders. You are able to do nothing and watch for the replace to obtain and set up mechanically by itself sooner or later sooner or later whereas your Kobo is syncing, however Kobo normally rolls out updates slowly to completely different areas and associates so that may take a number of weeks.
If you need the software program replace now, you possibly can manually set up the brand new software program at your comfort by downloading it to your particular mannequin from the Kobo Firmware Updates web page. Then extract the zip file and place it within the .kobo folder in your Kobo system.
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