KoboPatch WebUI 1.7

What's New

• Ensure that the ExcludeSyncFolders value does not exclude the calibre folder by default, unless you enable the new optional feature that does exclude that folder.
• The ExcludeSyncFolders config line is always updated on-device if you connect your Kobo to ensure it's always correct.
• Added "Prevent Calibre books from appearing in My Books" as an optional tweak when selecting the NickelMenu preset.
• Fixed a bug where an empty panel would be displayed when only removing NickelMenu with no additional extra removals.

Full Changelog: v1.6...v1.7

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What's Supported

This version of KoboPatch WebUI supports two specific paths:

• Installing NickelMenu with or without a custom configuration. Works for most Kobo devices.
• Applying and installing custom patches. Only supported for a limited amount of devices right now.

If you are using Chrome or a Chrome-based browser with the filesystem API, you can even have the webpage put the patches in the right place on your device! Super convenient.

Tip

Before using the tool, make a backup of the contents of your e-reader, just to be safe. You can also restore the original firmware and uninstall NickelMenu via this tool, and I've included a link to this page which tells you how to manually reset your device if something goes catastrophically wrong.

You can use the Web UI here.

I highly recommend using the NickelMenu path, as it is much safer and will normally persist between updates (until Kobo release v5.x of their system software). Manual patches will require re-patching after system software updates, which is a bit annoying.

If you like to live dangerously, I suppose you could use custom patches -- but those are limited to Kobo Libra Colour, Kobo Clara Colour and Kobo Clara BW because I didn't want to maintain more than one list of patches for this project at this time.