In the event you picked up one of many new Kobo ereaders that had been launched earlier this yr, there’s now a brand new software program replace accessible for them.
The brand new firmware model is 4.40.23081, and it’s accessible completely for the Kobo Libra Color, the Kobo Clara Color, and the Kobo Clara BW.
Kobo normally updates all of their ereaders on the similar time, however this replace is just for the newer fashions for some motive. The older fashions are all nonetheless on firmware model 4.38.23038, which was launched in June.
Hopefully this doesn’t imply they’re going to start out drawing a line within the sand relating to which fashions get updates now. One of many good issues about Kobo is the very fact they’re nonetheless updating fashions from nicely over ten years in the past (besides the Kobo Mini, which stopped getting updates a very long time in the past).
The 4.40.23081 updates appears to be a minor one. There’s nothing about any new options or main adjustments. The discharge notes simply say “numerous bug fixes and stability enhancements”.
In the event you set up the brand new replace in your Kobo and spot every other adjustments or any new bugs depart a remark under to let everybody know.
Obtain New Software program
There are two methods to replace the software program on Kobo gadgets. You are able to do nothing and watch for the replace to obtain and set up robotically sooner or later sooner or later whereas your Kobo ereader is syncing, however Kobo normally rolls out updates slowly to completely different areas and associates so which may take a couple of weeks or a number of weeks.
If you’d like the software program replace now, you’ll be able to manually set up the brand new software program at your comfort by downloading it on 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 gadget.
by way of: MobileRead
