Can you find the ‘set to English’ button?
January 30, 2024 1:53 AM   Subscribe

I have messed up my Kobo ebook reader. It is now not in English. Are any of the options in these three menus something useful to me? (other strategies for getting this thing to English are also welcome…. it was cool when I was reading Gibson, but is getting tiresome….)
posted by pompomtom to Technology (12 answers total)
 
Best answer: On my Kobo Forma, if I am on the Home screen, on the bottom far-right is a "more" menu with thee horizontal lines. If I click that, I get to a menu with "settings" (a gear icon) second from the bottom. If I click settings, it takes me to a menu (no icons) where "language and dictionaries" is the 4th choice. If I click on language and dictionaries, that takes me to a menu where the first choice is "select your language" and hitting that takes me to a page with languages to select.
posted by needs more cowbell at 3:27 AM on January 30, 2024 [1 favorite]


Best answer: Ah, your model is definitely really different from mine. But what do you get if you click the three horizontal lines in the top right? Maybe it's the same as the three lines at the bottom on my Forma?
posted by needs more cowbell at 3:33 AM on January 30, 2024


Best answer: Yeah, looks like none of those options goes to languages. Can you show us the options under the hambuger menu?
posted by womb of things to be and tomb of things that were at 3:36 AM on January 30, 2024


Response by poster: If that’s the top right thing, then let’s see.
posted by pompomtom at 3:49 AM on January 30, 2024


Response by poster: (and yes, this is an antediluvian Kobo)
posted by pompomtom at 3:51 AM on January 30, 2024


Best answer: Yep, and can you send us the options that come up when you click the little gear icon?
posted by womb of things to be and tomb of things that were at 3:51 AM on January 30, 2024


Best answer: This youtube video from 10 years ago looks like it has a similar menu. Basically yeah gear icon and then click on the 4th option in the list.
posted by needs more cowbell at 3:53 AM on January 30, 2024


Best answer: Not a direct answer to your question, but if you use the Google Translate app on your phone, you can hold your camera up to the Chinese text and it will translate it on the fly for you.
posted by jason and the garlic knots at 3:55 AM on January 30, 2024 [2 favorites]


Response by poster: WOOHOO!!!!

I was halfway through photographing the results of each option under the gear icon (4th was wifi something) and I found it.

THANK YOU ALL!
posted by pompomtom at 3:59 AM on January 30, 2024 [1 favorite]


Response by poster: If anyone comes across this in future and has a Kobo Touch from a decade ago, try the third option under the gear menu under the hamburger menu, if that makes sense.
posted by pompomtom at 4:01 AM on January 30, 2024 [4 favorites]


Yay! My other e-reader is a circa-2013 Kindle (the kind that has physical buttons) that is still great to use, honestly--zero shame in old e-readers even if they take some troubleshooting!
posted by needs more cowbell at 4:36 AM on January 30, 2024 [1 favorite]


FWIW, it "was" set to Japanese.
posted by kschang at 11:24 PM on January 30, 2024


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