sketch: Simple alternative to the Kobo sketch pad app. QtFrotz: Qt port of Frotz for Kobo ereaders. CoolReader launcher for Nickel: Two scripts taken from tshering's Kobo Start Menu that make it possible to launch CoolReader with a tap on a custom tile, without having to open pbchess. pbchess: Launcher for Qt apps with chess, checkers, reversi, sokoban, gomoku, notepad, a calculator, a file manager, and OPDS browser, Dropbox integration, USBnet, a simple terminal, a port of Coolreader and the ability to add your own apps. Very slow with large (thousand-pages long) documents. koreader: Excellent alternative reader with Calibre server integration and a rudimentary RSS reader. is the last version with our much beloved home screen. Unfortunately, chess has dissapeared from this version and will never be seen again. It uses the nice tiled homepage that dissapears in the 4.XXX.X updates. This has made a lot of hacks and patches available only for this version, which makes the task of making a heavily-patched version of the firmware much easier.

Stable and fast, it lasted for almost a year. But it is better to use the next one.ĭownload (Mark 6) - Discussion thread - Metazoa patches : Nice release with all the aforementioned bugs fixed. A bug makes it impossible to suspend the device while charging it. Some of them suffer the infamous sickel bug that makes the reader reboot itself when handling a moderately intensive task. 3.16.0: Almost identical to 3.15.0, but much slower when opening epubs. pbchess doesn't work reliably with this version.ĭownload (Mark 6) - Discussion thread - Metazoa patch Chess is still available via this database hack. The ghosting has dissapeared and the web browser runs smoothly. It is supposed to be the last version with chess available on the beta features menu, but since there are not Metazoa patches available for it, there's no way to know. The web browser makes the screen flicker when scrolling or updating pages.

I will update this post when finding more interesting things.

This is intended for personal use, but could be useful to more people. While trying to turn my Kobo Glo HD into some sort of all-purpose e-ink PDA, I have come across a great deal of useful resources.

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