http://www.mobileread.com/forums MobileRead - the resource for mobile geeks seeking information and advice for keeping their gadgets happy. en Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:35:01 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.mobileread.com/forums/images/mr/misc/logo.gif http://www.mobileread.com/forums http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50240&goto=newpost Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:09:10 GMT In something of a surprise move, Vodafone Germany, one of the biggest players in the German mobile market, seems to have decided to take the eBook market seriously.
German magazine Wirtschaftswoche announced today that Vodafone might bring to market a new e-ink eBook-Reader with a big screen (A4) in fall. It seems that the new reader is already being tested. The device will not be produced by Vodafone itself, but will be branded. The screen size will probably be 9.7-inch which puts it in the Kindle DX range. There will also be some kind of mobile connectivity. We don't know who the producer of the device will be - for now.
Vodafone is also thinking of selling its device in combination with newspaper or magazine subscriptions.
It seems that Vodafone will not establish its own e-book store but will try to strike a cooperation with an existing German portal.

Thanks to Johannes from lesen.net for bringing this up! ]]> News and Commentary mtravellerh http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50240 http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50239&goto=newpost Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:35:33 GMT Using Kindle 2 with default dictionary.
User guide states:
1. Move the 5-way controller up or down to display the cursor.
2. Move the 5-way in front of the word you want to look up.
3. If the word is found in the dictionary, a defnition extract appears at the bottom of
the screen.

However, definition extracts do NOT appear for many words although the words ARE in the dictionary (can be seen by reading the dictionary.)

For example, try moving the 5-way to the word "the".
No extract appears but "the" is in the dictionary.

Any solutions or comments? ]]> Kindle Troubleshooting mikemundy http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50239 http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50238&goto=newpost Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:18:53 GMT I see one of the few online shops that sell eBooks to us here in South Africa is offering the Cybook Opus on pre-order. The Cybook Gen 3 seems to be unavailable, and the only other alternative is the Bebook.

The Opus looks like an interesting device and I'm wondering if it would be worth it getting the Opus instead of the Gen 3. Anyone seen the Opus in real life? I know the Paris meetup will get a chance, so hopefully they can post some comments. ]]> Bookeen Cybook Gen3 Crusader http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50238 http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50237&goto=newpost Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:46:28 GMT Silly me! I began a thread in English in the French Forum....it's here.
So :

1. we've seen the Opus : it's a beauty, it's sleek, it's what we've been waiting for...you'll want it as soon as you see it!
2. we've been updated :grin: so we have folder management --bad news : we can't send it to you guys... it's on a SD card & works on the spot...
3. they say it will be on the site next week (I hear you snickering, you guys)
4. There's 12 of us, & a choice of machines : cybook, sony, ebookwise, a beBook, an Apple Newton !!

The beer is Ok, dinner is next... ]]> Lounge YGG- http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50237 http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50236&goto=newpost Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:40:45 GMT Searching and searching throught the internetz looking for a device that supports USB wireless G Wifi antenna for under $250. Im really hoping that the Smart Devices will get this support..... Searching and searching throught the internetz looking for a device that supports USB wireless G Wifi antenna for under $250.

Im really hoping that the Smart Devices will get this support..... ]]> Other Devices myzter http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50236 http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50235&goto=newpost Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:26:48 GMT Wearing one of my other hats in life, some friends and I started a theology book club. We're all over the country, however, so we're going to be doing it online via video and regular text chat. Many others were also interested, so we've gotten a bit bigger than we originally imagined.

We're going to be talking about books on theology and religion that are often rooted in respectable academic work but not so academic that a person with a decent religious education can't appreciate what is going on. The group is not affiliated with any particular group (its founding members were an Episcopalian, Methodist and Presbyterian) but lean towards "progressive religion" in general.

Our first book is going to be John Caputo's On Religion you can see some multimedia content and supplementary material here. We'll be meeting on Thursday, July 16th at 8pm EST. We're discussing our picks for the next book here and here.

We're working off the Emergent Outliers site, but the group itself is not necessarily involved with the Emergent Church movement (though many are in some way or another) - so don't let that put you off it isn't your cup of tea. Everyone who can engage in a civil and interesting conversation with a modicum of religious education is welcome. ]]> News and Commentary Gideon http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50235 http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50234&goto=newpost Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:49:00 GMT Hi, I'm a newbie to this forum. I'm pretty computer savvy but pretty new to eBook readers (I've been reading eBooks on my Tablet PC for some time). I picked up a brand new EZReader from Fry's yesterday and I'm playing with it. So far, so good. I've been poking around this forum a bit and have read here and there about updating the firmware on the reader. I'm all for that and am comfortable with doing it. However...I'm kind of confused as to what I should upgrade TO. I'm not even sure how recent the firmware is on my reader. Here is what I get from the "about" page:


Firmware version: V2.02ASTAK.090421

Bookshelf version: V1.20.090420

Viewer version: V3.0.090120

(also lists the various parsers' versions)

Can anyone steer me in the right direction to upgrading the firmware if this isn't the latest and greatest? Also, I did see somewhere-but now I'm having a hard time finding it-another firmware/OS that could be installed to and executed from the SD card independently and without change to the default firmware/OS on the reader. Can anyone help point me to that as well?:chinscratch: ]]> HanLin eBook mtnmedic http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50234 http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50233&goto=newpost Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:18:18 GMT As testing from New LBOOK beta firmware 090629 New Adobe PDF viewer is introduced but not DRM supported yet. (No connection with ADE) ... Old PDF Vieweer is still in lib but taken over by Viewer. MOBI/PRC is removed both DRM and non-DRM. I also check at Mobipocket website, all about supported devices as Bebook and Hanlin are gone. As testing from New LBOOK beta firmware 090629

New Adobe PDF viewer is introduced but not DRM supported yet. (No connection with ADE) ... Old PDF Vieweer is still in lib but taken over by Viewer.

MOBI/PRC is removed both DRM and non-DRM.

I also check at Mobipocket website, all about supported devices as Bebook and Hanlin are gone. ]]> HanLin eBook keng2000 http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50233 http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50232&goto=newpost Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:00:23 GMT There ! :2thumbsup There ! :2thumbsup ]]> Forum Français YGG- http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50232 http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50231&goto=newpost Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:54:17 GMT Well, I feel a bit dumb. I was playing around with the alt-shift-# command where you can change the line-spacing. Now I want to reset it to whatever the default is but I don't know the default. The geektronic website is the only one I found that mentions such and they say it is 3 but, wow, that looks wayyyy too close together to me and I don't think my Kindle was ever set to 3. Does anyone know the real default setting? Thanks! ]]> Kindle Troubleshooting Neil http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50231 http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50230&goto=newpost Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:07:43 GMT This is my first post and first time to this site.
What got me here was curiosity but what actually got me here TODAY is the fact that "Avantgo" went dark and I've been looking around for a replacement.

I haven't spent a lot of time looking yet, just making a few tentative steps.

I have an iPaq 211 which I synch'd with Avantgo every morning when at home and wirelessly (wifi) when on the road. I used it to have newspapers at my fingertips whenever I desired throughout the day - waiting in line, doctor's office - whatever.
I downloaded Mobi reader and iSilo just a few minutes ago. I am going to thoroughly enjoy having a book with me all the time but I already miss the news and weather updates.

So - I'm betting there are a bunch of experts in this area that visit this site.
What I'm looking for is a site / program that allows me to collect a bunch of feeds, RSS or other, lets me download to PDA for later consumption.

Any ideas? I'm willing to pay a reasonable fee for the service.

:thanks: ]]> Introduce Yourself robota http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50230 http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50228&goto=newpost Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:51:27 GMT My name is Rob. Avid reader.

I don't have an ebook and don't have any immediate plans to get one. Possibly when the prices drop or my salary increases enough to make it an impulse buy. I read on my laptop (or whatever computer I have). ]]> Introduce Yourself RobRittenhouse http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50228 http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50227&goto=newpost Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:35:49 GMT Well...

I've had my 505(LC) for almost two weeks now.

After using it for less than a week, my old dinosaur Rocket eBook reader feels like a bag of bricks when I pick it up. I'll have to remember to spank my friend for suggesting I get one of these... my dear Rocket is feeling a bit abandoned these days.

But what I wanted to do was find out if Sony had any kind of feature suggestions mail box that could be written to. Sending something to a general support mailbox would possibly be round-filed. Does anyone know if there is any sort of techie-related suggestion mailbox?


I've already started a wish list of things I'd like to see in an update:

Better font support.
Being able to select a font to replace the general system font from a general font folder would be nice, even if it required a system reboot to rebuild any Linux font tables. Being able to select plain, italic, bold and bold/italic typefaces would be nice, given how they only have pseudo-italics now.

It's a dedicated reading device. With its inherent flexibility, changing the default system font would go a long way toward making me a happier reader.

That should eliminate the need to embed fonts into LRF files which, as far as I have seen, is only partially supported.

Of course, fully supporting embedded fonts would be nice, too. I'd like a system font change, but I'd settle for fully supporting embedded fonts.

Also, just allowing the LRF files to reference a external fonts via CSS, as the ePub files seem to support, would work too, plus avoid the idiocy of embedding the same font in every LRF file.

Fully-justified text in ADE.
As well as switching off those page numbers and reclaiming that margin space they use.

That's really an Adobe issue, not Sony, but I figure I'd toss that in.

Better HTML support.
Both for styling CSS and for tag-handling. As an example, I use horizontal rules in my HTML source for scene breaks. While the rules do appear in the files, they do not seem to support the width attribute. Despite having width set to "200" all the rulers I've seen in my LRF files are full-width. Not liking it.

A real landscape mode.
What's with the landscape mode feature? It doesn't work as it should.

If I make a page wider in a web browser (or use landscape mode on my Rocket) the text reflows and I get more text per line.

What the PRS seems to do is bump the font up so that the same amount of text stays on the line. So, I don't get more text-per-line with the wider display, but bigger text. Orientation should not affect the size of the text. It acts like a zoom/rotate, not just a rotate.

Real-time clock.
The clock hack is a neat touch. I like it. They should make something like it an official feature. Maybe even add it as a switchable feature for the picture viewer.

Screen saver.
Speaking of picture viewer... seeing that just displaying a picture takes no power, they might consider a folder of images to randomly display as a 'screen saver.' I have the impression that Kindles have a feature like this. It shouldn't be too tough to implement. I wouldn't mind having my site logo appear on the reader when not in use.



So... while I'm whistling in the dark for any of these to happen, what else would people like to see for firmware updates (no hardware changes... that could be another thread)?

-JPB ]]> LRF Dahak http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50227 http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50226&goto=newpost Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:29:35 GMT Die Wirtschaftswoche scheint sich ja derzeit etwas intensiver den eBooks zu widmen. Neu ist auch ein Kommentar, warum eBooks das gedruckte Papier (noch (lange)) nicht ablösen werden.

Dafür werden die üblichen Strandurlaub-Argumente herangezogen, die es schon zu Rocket eBook-Zeiten gab. Elektronische Geräte vertragen keinen Sand, kein Wasser, keine Sonnencreme, etc, etc.

Interessanterweise scheint das aber seit Jahren Benutzer von Handys, MP3-Playern oder Notebooks überhaupt nicht zu stören bzw. mir ist kein Artikel untergekommen, warum wiederum diese Geräte so gar nicht urlaubstauglich seien.

Letzendlich hebt dieser Kommentar die Vorzüge des Buchs als Wegwerfartikel hervor und nicht mehr als Kulturgut.
Wer schon einmal ein Taschenbuch wirklich zwei Wochen einem Strandurlaub ausgesetzt hat, hat es danach nicht mehr mit nach Hause genommen, sondern vorort dem sandrieselnden Bücherregal des Hotels überlassen ... - und dann stimmt's natürlich wieder.

Wegwerfartikel sind eBook Reader tatsächlich nicht. In dieser Hinsicht werden sie Taschenbücher oder Zeitungen wohl kaum verdrängen. ]]> Deutsches Forum K-Thom http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50226 http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50225&goto=newpost Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:53:57 GMT Hi,
I have been waiting for Frys sale on Astak readers for two weeks and now I am mad because they won't ship to my home address, only to a store address!!

The nearest [deleted expletive] store is 90 MILES AWAY!

Can anyone buy this for me and ship it to my address and I will repay you?

I have no ebook reader and have been looking towards this weekend so I can snag Astak reader while it would be on sale but Frys is [deleted].

http://www.frys.com/product/5834633 ]]> Flea Market K03AK http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50225