Does anyone know if the opening picture on the Cybook Gen3 can be changed (maybe a hack). I'm tired of seeing Bill Clinton every time I turn the Gen3 on.:eek:

Does anyone know if the opening picture on the Cybook Gen3 can be changed (maybe a hack). I'm tired of seeing Bill Clinton every time I turn the Gen3 on.:eek:

I had exactly the same thought :D

I don't think there's a way to change it now, but maybe with a future firmware upgrade...

I'm tired of seeing Bill Clinton every time I turn the Gen3 on.:eek:

That was one of the main reasons I bought a Gen3 :D.

No, it can't be changed - it's a part of the firmware. Why not request it as an enhancement request to "support@bookeen.com"? They seem very receptive to feedback.

Does anyone know if the opening picture on the Cybook Gen3 can be changed (maybe a hack). I'm tired of seeing Bill Clinton every time I turn the Gen3 on.:eek:


So much for fame. I didn't even recognize him. But now you told me, I found the picture, the title of the book gave it away. It really is big, almost 4*5 millimeter and surrounded by 9 others.

There is an easy solution for you. Leave the cybook switched on. I wil last for days on a single charge

Ain't diversity grand!::D

That was one of the main reasons I bought a Gen3 :D.

No, it can't be changed - it's a part of the firmware. Why not request it as an enhancement request to "support@bookeen.com"? They seem very receptive to feedback.

Thanks for the suggestion Harry. :thumbsup: I did.:book2:

BTW I like my leather/vinyl cover. From reading the reports, I didn't think I would. Also thanks to all the suggestions here, I have had very little trouble with my CyBook & the things that I did have trouble with, I solved very easily due to previous user's experience.

Happily CyBooking Don.

Got this reply from Bookeen. Thought others would be interested.

Thank you very much for taking the time to send us comments and suggestions.

We are working on improving the device with a coming firmware upgrade in March.

Best regards,
Bookeen Support Team

Never had the opportunity to see a cyBook yet.....I've got to ask the question:

Does this thing *really* display a photo of Bill Clinton when it boots up? If it does, how do I cancel my order?

-Jeff

Never had the opportunity to see a cyBook yet.....I've got to ask the question:

Does this thing *really* display a photo of Bill Clinton when it boots up? If it does, how do I cancel my order?

-Jeff

No, it does not. It shows a small picture of the library and one of the ten books is a book from Clinton. If you have good eyes and are a fast reader you can see the title. And if you know the title you can (perhaps) recognize his face on the cover. I didn't even see it until slayda mentioned it.

No, it does not. It shows a small picture of the library and one of the ten books is a book from Clinton. If you have good eyes and are a fast reader you can see the title. And if you know the title you can (perhaps) recognize his face on the cover. I didn't even see it until slayda mentioned it.

The boot screen shows the picture of the Gen3 that you can see here (http://www.bookeen.com/ebook/ebook-reading-device.aspx).

As you see, one of the books shown in the library is Bill Clinton's "My Life".

The boot screen shows the picture of the Gen3 that you can see here (http://www.bookeen.com/ebook/ebook-reading-device.aspx).

As you see, one of the books shown in the library is Bill Clinton's "My Life".

Considering the source, the book's real title should be "My Lies".

Mr. Clinton is extremely highly respected here in the UK. He played a major role in helping to bring the troubles in Northern Ireland to an end.

The problem is of course that in any library any book can be considerd 'bad' by some people.

And for everybody there is in any library a book that he or she can consider 'bad'

The same bootscreen also shows the DaVinci Code. For some people that is a blasphemous book. The same can be said about Harry Potter.

That was one of the main reasons I bought a Gen3 :D.

No, it can't be changed - it's a part of the firmware. Why not request it as an enhancement request to "support@bookeen.com"? They seem very receptive to feedback.


As someone new here, and potentially looking at the Gen3 - surely the book can be deleted ? - or is that a daft question ? :chinscratch:

As someone new here, and potentially looking at the Gen3 - surely the book can be deleted ? - or is that a daft question ? :chinscratch:


It is not a book, it is a picture of the library containing ten books. And I can imagine that any of these ten books can be offending for someone. As can any picture I guess. The only solution is no picture at all. But then I would be offended. That is censorship

It's not a book; it's a picture of a Gen3 showing its library screen, and it's one of the books in the library in the picture. Did you not look at the link that I posted, showing the picture?

As someone new here, and potentially looking at the Gen3 - surely the book can be deleted ? - or is that a daft question ? :chinscratch:

It’s actually only a sample of the book and it can be deleted quite easily. The apparent problem is the boot-up screen of the Cybook which can’t be changed. Which displays this picture. http://www.bookeen.com/Pics/productImages/HiRes/CybookPackage.jpg . The book “My life”, By Bill Clinton is displayed in the bottom left in all it’s 1cmx3cm (0.4”x1.1”), 4 greyscale glory.

It’s displayed for an entire 15 seconds or so, during the start up sequence. I can’t really imagine the level of political polarization needed in order to find this annoying. Then again it would be nice if you could add custom images.

It's not a book; it's a picture of a Gen3 showing its library screen, and it's one of the books in the library in the picture. Did you not look at the link that I posted, showing the picture?

Yes, I did see the link - but it was not obvious that it was only a picture. The screen says "Library", with book-cover pictures, title in text and publisher.

My immediate thought was it was a list of books contained in the Gen3, no-where does it say otherwise ? :thanks: for the clarification ............

I don't particularly dislike Bill Clinton, neither his person as a politician nor his face (I don't say I like him either). But seeing him everytime I switch on the device is just annoying after the first 10 times, I guess. It would be the same were it a picture of any other person, especially if it cannot be changed; having just some objects, abstract drawings or a landscape would be a bit different, though.

By the way, just to be clear. When booting up, the screen shows the whole picture already mentioned, i.e., a picture of the Cybook itself showing the library (not the real library you have, but the "preset" library).

I don't particularly dislike Bill Clinton, neither his person as a politician nor his face (I don't say I like him either). But seeing him everytime I switch on the device is just annoying after the first 10 times, I guess. It would be the same were it a picture of any other person, especially if it cannot be changed; having just some objects, abstract drawings or a landscape would be a bit different, though.

:dito:

-Jeff

Didn't mean to stir everyone up. Just want to know if it were possible to change. I did suggest to Bookeen that this would be an ideal place to allow customers to "personalize" their Cybook - perhaps with their name & address in the event of the Cybook being inadvertently left behind somewhere.:book2:

I sent Bookeen this feature request and this is the response I got back:

There is nothing planned at the moment concerning the homepage screen. However, this remark has been recurrent and our team is trying its best to consider your remarks and suggestions.

I'd love to be able to pick out a nice landscape or abstract to see instead... one can hope :)

...and having worked with a number of software developers in my career, that usually means "no". :)

-Jeff

Being a software developer, it may seem "I'd like to add this too, if I manage to squeeze it between two highly neccessary features the bosses want".

Being a software developer, it may seem "I'd like to add this too, if I manage to squeeze it between two highly neccessary features the bosses want".

How difficult can it be to change ?
Surely it's just an image -
They could just replace it with a Bookeen logo (just for starters ?)

To clarify, this is what the boot screen looks like (apologies for the lousy camera-phone pic!). Although you can't tell in the picture, the "floor" behind the Gen3 picture is a collage of little pictures of books. The lovely Mr. CLinton's picture (you can just make it out in the photo) is the bottom left picture on the screen of the Gen3 that's shown on the boot screen.

To clarify, this is what the boot screen looks like (apologies for the lousy camera-phone pic!). Although you can't tell in the picture, the "floor" behind the Gen3 picture is a collage of little pictures of books. The lovely Mr. CLinton's picture (you can just make it out in the photo) is the bottom left picture on the screen of the Gen3 that's shown on the boot screen.


I *LOVE* that image! Yep, time to get a new cellphone camera! :D :D :D

Ummm... as far as the shot of Clinto on the "My Life" cover, it ain't that big and it doesn't stay long enough to be an annoyance - to me. But then, I'm not one of those easily-annoyed Republicans - and despite not being a Democrat, I respect President Clinton's achievements.

Derek

The camera's actually quite nice for outdoor shots - it just struggles rather in not very bright indoor lighting, such as I took that with. Plus the fact that I had to take the picture while the boot screen was visible, which meant that I was holding the phone one-handed at the time, hence the vibration and blurred picture.

It serves its purpose, though, I think, which was simply to clarify the somewhat confusing point that the Gen3's boot screen shows a picture of a Gen3 :).

Ummm... as far as the shot of Clinto on the "My Life" cover, it ain't that big and it doesn't stay long enough to be an annoyance - to me. But then, I'm not one of those easily-annoyed Republicans - and despite not being a Democrat, I respect President Clinton's achievements.

As I said, that's not the only reason to be annoyed. I'm not American and I don't have anything particular against Mr. Clinton, certainly much less than against other US presidents I've known. And yet it annoys me (not too much, but it does) to have the face of some person not of my choice on my screen everytime I turn my Cybook on.

Please, let's not turn this into a political arena, it's just about being able to choose the startup screen or at least having something neutral, and real people's faces are not neutral, even if they were unknown people.

As I said, that's not the only reason to be annoyed. I'm not American and I don't have anything particular against Mr. Clinton, certainly much less than against other US presidents I've known. And yet it annoys me (not too much, but it does) to have the face of some person not of my choice on my screen everytime I turn my Cybook on.

Please, let's not turn this into a political arena, it's just about being able to choose the startup screen or at least having something neutral, and real people's faces are not neutral, even if they were unknown people.


I'd agree with you that being able to choose one's boot-up splash-screen would be a nice feature. I'd like to be able to choose one of my bird shots and then overlay the Bookeen and Cybook logo - as well as a "This is the property of Derek Benner" statement.

Derek

Bookeen replied to my email and they're saying they WILL replace it.... just as soon as Bush comes out with his biography.

To clarify, this is what the boot screen looks like (apologies for the lousy camera-phone pic!). Although you can't tell in the picture, the "floor" behind the Gen3 picture is a collage of little pictures of books. The lovely Mr. CLinton's picture (you can just make it out in the photo) is the bottom left picture on the screen of the Gen3 that's shown on the boot screen.
I've found that to take a decent photo of a Vizplex eink screen, you should have a camera that has manual focus. Auto focus doesn't always work.

Bookeen replied to my email and they're saying they WILL replace it.... just as soon as Bush comes out with his biography.

I dunno... Will the thumbnail be comprehensible? I mean, does crayon show up that well and all? :D :D :D

Derek

I think it's not as trivial as it may seem. To make the splash screen easily exchangeable they'd have to put it into the file system so you could overwrite the file (as opposed to having to exchange the geaphic inside the firmware and reflash the device, which would not be a desireable process). If they put it into the file system the embedded linux would already have been booted (or there would be no file system) to access the file so you couldn't really use it as a splash screen (except maybe for loading the boo reader).

I'm not sure how the device excatly works and there are two different splash screens so one might in fact be a splash screen used while embdedded linux is already booted and while waiting for the library to load. Problem is that the one screen the people here want to change is the first one and that one is unlikely to be easily exchangeable.

Bookeen replied to my email and they're saying they WILL replace it.... just as soon as Bush comes out with his biography.

OK - I'll buy that as long as they don't use Blair :2thumbsup:2thumbsup:D

Bookeen replied to my email and they're saying they WILL replace it.... just as soon as Bush comes out with his biography.

Who is Mr Bush writing a biography of?

Who is Mr Bush writing a biography of?

His father, maybe??

I think it's not as trivial as it may seem. To make the splash screen easily exchangeable they'd have to put it into the file system so you could overwrite the file (as opposed to having to exchange the geaphic inside the firmware and reflash the device, which would not be a desireable process). If they put it into the file system the embedded linux would already have been booted (or there would be no file system) to access the file so you couldn't really use it as a splash screen (except maybe for loading the boo reader).

I'm not sure how the device excatly works and there are two different splash screens so one might in fact be a splash screen used while embdedded linux is already booted and while waiting for the library to load. Problem is that the one screen the people here want to change is the first one and that one is unlikely to be easily exchangeable.

I would think that it could be made to be no more difficult than changing the desktop image in Windows. All it would take is to have a specifically named file.pointed to by the boot program, that you could replace.

Since it's a boot image, it has to be accessible before the kernel starts, so it cannot be "just a file" in the filesystem. It seems it is placed into a separate partition in the flash.
It should be possible to patch the firmware update binary to change the image.

Since it's a boot image, it has to be accessible before the kernel starts, so it cannot be "just a file" in the filesystem. It seems it is placed into a separate partition in the flash.
It should be possible to patch the firmware update binary to change the image.

Doesn't grub use splash images on the file system? Also the boot image that boot the kernel is on the file system.

Who is Mr Bush writing a biography of?

I nearly said autobiography, but that would imply he wrote it himself.. and I don't think too many people would want a book written in crayon.

I nearly said autobiography, but that would imply he wrote it himself.. and I don't think too many people would want a book written in crayon.

I don't like Mr. Bush's policies (especially when it comes to the Iraq war), but neither do I regard him as unintelligent. He flew fighter jets in the National Guard as a young man; they don't let idiots fly fighters. I think you're being a little unjust on him.

I don't like Mr. Bush's policies (especially when it comes to the Iraq war), but neither do I regard him as unintelligent. He flew fighter jets in the National Guard as a young man; they don't let idiots fly fighters. I think you're being a little unjust on him.

No, *I* was being unjust to President Shrub. However, this is a forum about the Bookeen Cybook Gen3 and I won't pursue this further.

Derek

I don't like Mr. Bush's policies (especially when it comes to the Iraq war), but neither do I regard him as unintelligent. He flew fighter jets in the National Guard as a young man; they don't let idiots fly fighters. I think you're being a little unjust on him.

There's questions over preferential treatment towards him, he apparently had poor qualifying scores, and arrests (but no charges), and despite others waiting years, he was accepted on the day he applied.

Clearly though he would not use a crayon to write his memoirs, I was joking.

This is probably not the best place to debate his suitability as President, nor his policies though!

I don't like Mr. Bush's policies (especially when it comes to the Iraq war), but neither do I regard him as unintelligent. He flew fighter jets in the National Guard as a young man; they don't let idiots fly fighters. I think you're being a little unjust on him.
GWB makes a fool of himself every time he gives a speech and he's making a fool of the citizens of the USA. The only reason he become president the first time around was because he had better lawyers. Not because it was fair or just or even legal.

GWB makes a fool of himself every time he gives a speech and he's making a fool of the citizens of the USA. The only reason he become president the first time around was because he had better lawyers. Not because it was fair or just or even legal.

Not here, please. There are other and better fora for this.

hoy there i am new with my Cybook and would like to know if there is some way to customise the picture presenting my books.

is it only the first pic of the book that is shown or can we change it?
thks

Guiz

hoy there i am new with my Cybook and would like to know if there is some way to customise the picture presenting my books.

is it only the first pic of the book that is shown or can we change it?
thks


You can use my mobi2mobi which is part of MobiPerl for this. There is also program that just creates thumbnails.

If the file is not a MOBIBOOK file then it is the first image that is used. If the book is a MOBIBOOK file then there can be pointers in the meta data to which image to use. If these pointers are not there then the first image is used.

thanks a lot! very helpfull
:2thumbsup

Guiz

I want a Hitchhikersguide-esque "Don't Panic" as the startup picture..... :-)

I want a Hitchhikersguide-esque "Don't Panic" as the startup picture..... :-)

That would be *GREAT*!!! :2thumbsup I'd also like the "I will do SCIENCE to it" picture from the Dresden Codak webcomic. :)

Derek