Hi guys,

I've been trolling the forums for a while just reading, but I thought I'd finally join up. First off, I must say I bought a 1150 of eBay a couple of month ago and It totally kicks butt! I use it every day and its replaced paper books for me completely :). I'd love to get an eInk device like the Iliad, but at the moment theyre too damn expensive for me to justify the price.

I have a couple of questions though that I hope someone out there might know the answer to:

1)Battery life - mine seems to be flakey, the unit will charge and show 20+ hours remaining on the battery, but it runs down in like 2 hours. Unfortunately I'm based outside the USA so returning it for exchange is not an option. Has anyone else experienced this and are there any tricks to solving it? Also has anyone tried replacing the battery in it?

2)The bulk converter software which is downloadable from the manufacturers website - has anyone got it to work? Everytime I try I just get errors. The librarian and standard publisher program give me no problems at all, but I'd like to use the bulkconverter as the other 2 programs take an age to convert the large amount of stuff I want to view on my 1150. Any clues?

Anyway, thats all for now.

1. No problems with the battery. Mine says about 10 hours and it seems to last for a long time. No idea on how to replace the battery. Maybe they can send you one if you tell them your situation?

2. Not too sure about the bulk converter. Is this the program available for about 15 bucks on their site? If so, I have never had a problem with it. Never had any luck with the freeware options out there so I broke down and bought the Librarian program. Is this bulk converter something new?

Hi,

Someone made a list of batteries for all ebook devices, I do not have it handy right now, but if people can post a link that may help; also try to fiddle with brightness, and charge the battery 3-4 hrs even if it says full.
The bulk converter gives me problems once in a while too; I just uninstall it and reinstall and it works, though once I had to remove by hand a dll that was corrupted. The bulk converter is useful, but the formatting of the imp books is much better with the Librarian from rtf in my experience; if you ask in the fictionwise group on Yahoo, people may know better about how to format the files for conversion to do various stuff (clickable table contents and the like).

Liviu

Hi,

Someone made a list of batteries for all ebook devices, I do not have it handy right now, but if people can post a link that may help; also try to fiddle with brightness, and charge the battery 3-4 hrs even if it says full.
The bulk converter gives me problems once in a while too; I just uninstall it and reinstall and it works, though once I had to remove by hand a dll that was corrupted. The bulk converter is useful, but the formatting of the imp books is much better with the Librarian from rtf in my experience; if you ask in the fictionwise group on Yahoo, people may know better about how to format the files for conversion to do various stuff (clickable table contents and the like).

Liviu
Thanks for your help. If you can find the list of the batteries that would be great. I'm picking the unit I have was sitting in a warehouse for years before being sent and that might have effected the memory of the battery. I charge it for a day and it makes no difference, and backlighting is on the lowest possible setting.

Hi,

I found these two links that may be helpful; for question about Ebks1150 it is a very good idea to try the Fictionwise Yahoo group since many people there are experts in GEB1150/Ebk1150.

www.teleread.org/blog/?p=4501
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Fictionwise/message/2583

Liviu

Thats great, thanks very much. Didnt know that Yahoo group existed, will see if anyone there has had the same problems as me.