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We have got rid of Alexa from our house as we are fed up with Amazon. Sonos voice is ok but seems limited.
We can’t use it to start a bbc radio station like we can with Alexa even though it’s controllable in the app easily.

My wife often doesn’t have her phone in the kitchen and wants to start either live bbc radio 2 or live bbc radio 6.

Is there a simple button we could setup to start the stream if do we need to use an old tablet or something?

Hey! I’m setting up my wife a calibre library and our ebooks we have collected over the years are a mess with the tags.

We are after a really simple genre tag for each book and wondered if there’s a way to auto populate this?

I’m thinking I want two top level tags. Fiction and non fiction.

For fiction I just tags like Fantasy, romance, classics, Science Fiction etc

One book with loads of tags like, fantasy, dark fantasy, strong female character, characters with interesting hats, somebody who drinks a lot of tea etc

Is there a simple way to do this?

I ordered on AliExpress before I saw the news of them locking these down. Mine arrived today and was unable to via usb easily like I had done my wife’s.

I used the unlocked on the crosspoint site and it worked well first time. But I put stable crosspoint on it and I meant to put the beta or even better a fork I want to use.

But now every time I try the process on windows or mac, I get to connect. I get the flashing screen on the x4 but it sits at 0% before tailing out and giving a failed message on screen.

Anybody with a locked device been able flash more than once?

I’m running calibre web automated (CWA) which is great.
Downloading a book via opds on my other readers works fine but in my x4 I’m missing covers.

Anybody got covers working in opds?

Is there a way in crosspoint or another fork to delete a book on device? I haven’t found one looking

I have just setup auto warmth for my kobos front light and works well. I know it’s lazy, but it would be cool to auto dim the screen in the morning and late evening to a percent of my choosing based on the time.

Is there a patch already for this?

I’ve got a kobo libra colour. Screen refresh seems to be ok in books to limit ghosting but in the library, there is a lot.

Is there any way to refresh the page when in the library and scrolling between my books

These are my AIpaper features or changes I would like. Anybody think these are good ideas?

Which would you like or what others?

Home Screen. Daily

Why do to-do, tasks and notes just have wasted space with a calendar icon? Why not a button here to make new. Especially useful when nothing there yet

Type tool.

Can we have different sizes and formatting such as bold and italics

Insert blank page. In page browser, can we select any page within a notebook and insert a blank page from the toolbar

In page browser, can we multi select pages and multiple move or multiple delete.

Pen. Change side button to highlighter as we have eraser on top

Screen shots. Can we have a crop feature

Learning.

Can we be able to read from the internal

Storage to easily read downloads without moving

User template share.

I’ve made a few templates for myself. It would be good to have a way to share these. Maybe in change template there could be community where we upload our own?

Note linking.

I would love to link one page to another.

Tag an element on a page. Maybe drop a tag on an area of notes that’s important or to action or escalation required. Can go into the tag browser to see these elements

Templates

Why do they need uploading to myviwoods? Can’t we add from our own storage or cloud storage?

Better sync like remarkable.

Remarkable has all notes always in sync on the web, desktop app and mobile. It works very well.

Can we have this for viwoods even if it’s a subscription

Sticker packs with easy quicker picker. Would be fun on some notebooks

I’m lucky that I have an x4 and love it now that it has crosspoint. I was looking forward to buying one with a front light when that comes out.

But I’m worried this might all be over with the news that the manufacturer are now trying to block firmware flashing. I imagine the future devices still be further locked down if this is where they want to go.

So has this killed the interesting this device?

Will there be as much development in the crosspoint variants if newer devices can’t run it?