Kobo-Aura-HD-Clean-Articles: A script to clean leftover Pocket articles. RSS reader: Simple python RSS reader that converts feeds to images. Reabble: Online (paid) RSS reader optimized for e-ink devices. Offline Wikipedia: Requires a bigger SD card. kobo-display: Simple website to show information like the clock and weather. Kobo weather forecast for Wifi and Touch: Weather app that seems to be broken on the Glo HD. Kobo-clock: "A Clock app for Kobo Aura HD, built against sdl". Wallabako: Wallabag (open-source Pocket alternative) client for Kobo readers. It does not seem to work anymore, but it should be relatively easy to fix. KoboCloud: A set of scripts that make Kobo download books on a specific Dropbox / Owncloud public folder in every sync. A faster premium version is also available. Feedhudler: Free website to send RSS feed updates to Pocket. Still in a very early stage of development. It needs the use of the power button in order to work and, as far as I know, does not have a delete button. 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.Äownload (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.Äownload (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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