VMAGI VS kobopatch

kobopatch v0.15.1 https://github.com/pgaskin/kobopatch Loading configuration from kobopatch.yaml Reading input firmware zip Patching ./usr/local/Kobo/libnickel.so.1.0.0 Applying overrides ... APPLY `Allow USB storage even when device locked` SKIP `Allow rotation on all devices` SKIP `Allow showing info panel on random screensaver` APPLY `Always show confirmation dialog before upgrading` SKIP `Block WiFi firmware upgrade` APPLY `Both page turn buttons go next` SKIP `Both page turn sides go next` SKIP `Bulgarian Phonetic Keyboard (GloHD/ClaraHD/AuraOne/H2O2/Forma/Libra)` SKIP `Change Browse Kobo home screen link target - Activity` SKIP `Change Wikipedia search language` SKIP `Custom Sleep/Power-off timeouts` APPLY `Custom font sizes` APPLY `Custom header/footer page number text` SKIP `Custom kepub default margins` APPLY `Custom left & right margins` APPLY `Custom navigation menu page number text` SKIP `Customize ComfortLight settings` SKIP `Cyrillic Keyboard (GloHD/ClaraHD/AuraOne/H2O2)` SKIP `DeveloperSettings - AutoUsbGadget` APPLY `Dictionary text font-family/font-size/line-height` APPLY `Disable all tutorial dialogs` SKIP `Don't grab exclusive access to event0` SKIP `Don't uppercase header/footer text` SKIP `Don't uppercase header/footer text and change page number text` SKIP `FeatureSettings - BookSpecificStats` SKIP `FeatureSettings - ExportHighlights` SKIP `FeatureSettings - FullScreenBrowser` SKIP `FeatureSettings - MyWords` SKIP `FeatureSettings - ShowFacebookShare` APPLY `Force user font-family in ePubs (Part 1 of 2)` APPLY `Force user line spacing in KePubs` APPLY `Force user line spacing in ePubs (part 1 of 2)` SKIP `Greek Keyboard (GloHD/ClaraHD/AuraOne/H2O2)` SKIP `Hide browser from beta features` SKIP `Increase page navigation history` SKIP `KePub stylesheet additions - text justify` SKIP `KePub stylesheet additions - word-spacing` SKIP `Larger Sleep/Power-off timeouts` SKIP `My 10 line spacing values` APPLY `My 24 line spacing values` SKIP `Never show Kobo Plus, wishlist, and points SmartLinks` SKIP `Only show Pocket SmartLink` SKIP `Only show stats SmartLink` SKIP `PowerSettings - UnlockEnabled` APPLY `Remove beta features not supported text` SKIP `Remove line from bottom tab bar` APPLY `Remove recommendations (row1col2) from home screen` SKIP `Remove title from reading header/footer` SKIP `Rename new home screen footer` SKIP `Replace adobe page numbers toggle with invert screen` SKIP `Set KePub hyphenation` SKIP `Set visible SmartLink` APPLY `Shorten dictionary entry not found message` SKIP `Swap reading header/footer` SKIP `Un-Force user font-family in KePubs` SKIP `Un-Force user text-align in div,p tags in KePubs` SKIP `Un-force font-family override p tags (std epubs)` SKIP `Un-force link decoration in KePubs` SKIP `Unify font sizes` APPLY `ePub constant font sharpness` SKIP `ePub disable built-in body padding-bottom` SKIP `ePub fixed top/bottom margins` Patching ./usr/local/Kobo/nickel Applying overrides ... SKIP `Change TOC level indentation` SKIP `Custom collection/author header title font` APPLY `Custom header/footer captions` SKIP `Custom page navigation scrubber` SKIP `Custom synopsis details line spacing` SKIP `Custom synopsis font size` SKIP `Customise Header back button` SKIP `Dictionary pop-up - increase available text area` SKIP `Increase Book Details synopsis area` SKIP `Increase headlines font` SKIP `Increase home screen cover size` APPLY `Increase library cover size` APPLY `Increase size of kepub chapter progress chart` SKIP `New home screen subtitle custom font` SKIP `Reduce new header/footer height` SKIP `Reduce top/bottom page spacer` APPLY `Remove footer (row3) and increase cover size on new home screen` SKIP `Remove footer (row3) on new home screen` SKIP `Remove forgot pin button from lock screen` APPLY `Series list increase cover thumbnails` SKIP `Show all games` ... Checking patched KoboRoot.tgz for consistency Successfully saved patched KoboRoot.tgz to out/KoboRoot.tgz. Remember to make sure your kobo is running the target firmware version before patching.

The other thing I really like is Kobopatch which lets you tinker with a number of appearance things, such as offering more, smaller, font sizes, reducing the space in the footer at the bottom of a page, and also does stuff like allowing you to block firmware updates. It's definitely a personal preference thing, but I found it pretty easy to get my head around and I like being able to mess about with that kind of thing.

I'm not a great expert on the matter, because I'm pretty satisfied with how Nickel works (I added Dropbox support, but that's not done with a patch, NickelSeries, NickelMenu and NickelClock, but the last three are proper add-ons, so no patches again), and it's been a while since I looked closely at them, but you can find more info; - on the github page of the guy maintaining them all https://github.com/pgaskin/kobopatch

OP probably just means stuff like kobopatch [ https://github.com/pgaskin/kobopatch ] or Calibre plug-ins that are handy to work alongside the Kobo, such as this extension to the KoboTouch driver [ https://github.com/jgoguen/calibre-kobo-driver ]. I personally don't use kobopatch, but the extension for Calibre's KoboTouch driver has been v useful for me.