Hi Cybook Owners...
I've read the various threads concerned with various methods, many of them ingenious, about ways and means long, tall, short, medium, straight and curved, about covers for the Cybook Gen3. In fact I was very much in favour of buying a nice cover for my friend before the arrival of the machine.

I found, however, that it arrived with a good leather cover with suited my purposes admirably: and a bonus was that I also happened to have a canvas cash bag to hand, bought when I was in Southern India, for 107 Rupess (about one pound fifty pence!) into which the whole thing goes as a perfect snug.

So far so good.

When fitting the Cybook into its new shoe, I found it was a tight squeeze; however with a little use it has snugged in well and seems to be very happy there. However, it seems that now, from time to time, the book is slipping out of its shoe, even when the cover is closed.

Not such good news, as I don't want it falling out. Looking there, I see we have a tight squeeze: even a wee bit of velcro attached to the side of the book would increase the thickness I feel. A small metal clip placed over the upper left portion might do the trick. Mmm not sure.

If anyone has had this "issue" (as they keep saying these days) and have found a nifty fix, please, I'd love to know.

Kind regards

John

On the bottom left of your Cybook, there is a little hole to fix a wristband or similar, it can be used attatch the Cybook to the cover with a cord.

On the bottom left of your Cybook, there is a little hole to fix a wristband or similar, it can be used attatch the Cybook to the cover with a cord.
Thanks very much for this useful information. I used a plastic coated paperclip, which also should serve to reset my machine, which crashes approximately twice a week.
Regards
John

Or just a very small bit of double sided velcro tape. Won't take much or you'll never release it ;)

I had considered doing that.
As a by-thought, you'd have thought they'd've put the reset hole in a more accessible place.
;)
Regards
John

I use a tiny blob of blu-tack

As a by-thought, you'd have thought they'd've put the reset hole i a more accessible place.


Then again....... two resets a week ?????? I've done two resets in half a year..
You're sure your memory is intact ?? Maybe you should do a CHKDSK ??

I've never had to reset my (current) one ....

Then again....... two resets a week ?????? I've done two resets in half a year..
You're sure your memory is intact ?? Maybe you should do a CHKDSK ??

mmm.... I'm afraid I'd have no idea whether it were intact or not... or for that matter how to do a CHKDSK ! Could you, errr, :bulb2: me?

I've been reading Dickens's Bleak House, which is hardly a minor tome, and wonder whether that could have implicated it somewhat...?

regards

John

PS: btw: I notice, with interest, the various ways in which some members give a picture of themselves by including at the bottom of their posts some info about what they're reading. Is this something you can set up in your profile? If so, I can't find it. Perhaps a separate file is made up and pasted in at each post?

Go to "User CP" in the blue box, then "edit signature." Type whatever you want to carry along in the signature box.




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mmm.... I'm afraid I'd have no idea whether it were intact or not... or for that matter how to do a CHKDSK ! Could you, errr, :bulb2: me?

If your computer is running windows (vista) then it's simple.
Just mount your Cybook through the USB-cable. Your Cybook should become visible as a new device (for me it's called Cybook Gen3 (L: ), but it could be another drive-letter for you).
Just right-click on the drive. Select Properties then select 'extra' (or Tools in XP) and choose the option ' Check Now'.


PS: btw: I notice, with interest, the various ways in which some members give a picture of themselves by including at the bottom of their posts some info about what they're reading. Is this something you can set up in your profile? If so, I can't find it. Perhaps a separate file is made up and pasted in at each post?

DixieGal beat me on that one :)

DixieGal beat me on that one :)

Sorry, but I seldom get an opportunity to help out on the Cybook threads, so I just jumped in there. :knuddel:

Sorry, but I seldom get an opportunity to help out on the Cybook threads, so I just jumped in there. :knuddel:


well jump back out sonygirl....:rofl:

well jump back out sonygirl....:rofl:

Hey TwigBoy! Quitcher name calling or I'll hijack this thread for nefarious and hilarious hijinks!

you can't do that, it's not the llounge .....

you can't do that, it's not the llounge .....

Yes Sir!

Then again....... two resets a week ?????? I've done two resets in half a year..
You're sure your memory is intact ?? Maybe you should do a CHKDSK ??

Lucky you. The standard way of my cybook to show it's low on energy is to freeze. The only way to solve that (that I know of) is to do a reset. So yeah, I've got to reset also more or less once a week ...

you can't do that, it's not the llounge .....

Ahhh... but if this thread were carried on in the lounge, it wouldn't be the same.

Ever noticed how when you get chatting in a doorway, and your feet get tired and cold, and you want to carry on, but in more comfortable circumstances...

...you just can't...

...¿Can You?...

...do it, and you break the spell..

?

:loco:

I had freezes, too, pretty often, but now that I moved all my ebooks directly on the memory of my Cybook, I don't remember one ! :2thumbsup

I had freezes, too, pretty often, but now that I moved all my ebooks directly on the memory of my Cybook, I don't remember one ! :2thumbsup

Strangely, my experience was the opposite -- I was having freezes (and one instance of memory corruption) when I was storing books internally; switching to SD storage greatly reduced the freezing. So who knows...

I had freezes, too, pretty often, but now that I moved all my ebooks directly on the memory of my Cybook, I don't remember one ! :2thumbsup


Yep - that was my solution as well ....

the phenomenon is truly Quantum