Bookmark bug - Page 2

SandySchwab · 12-30-2007, 09:10 AM

No, that bug doesn't occur because of the SD card. At the moment, I've stored all my e-books on the device itself, and when I've been reading for a fairly long time the Cybook refuses to place bookmarks and to remember the page I last read as well.

ProfJulie · 12-30-2007, 01:40 PM

It is not a storage card problem. I've experienced lockups with books on the storage card and books in main memory. The bookmark function stops allowing me to assign bookmarks and I can't use the bookmarks I've assigned. I usually have to fiiddle around with the Cybook (turning it on and off, pushing the reset button on the back, plugging it up to my computer) before I can at least go into the Bookmarks option and delete all my bookmarks. After that I can start assigning bookmarks again until it happens again.

This makes it quite tedious when I am reading a lengthy book and wind up losing my place in it. Then I have to start plugging in page numbers until I get close to where I was in the book and then I can start pressing the navigation button over and over until I get to my place in the book. The Cybook is great, but navigation is really awful.

Justy · 12-31-2007, 05:48 PM

I had the same problem with my ebooks on the SD card, but it went away when I moved them to the device. I hope the problem doesn't come back for me as it did for others.

diabloNL · 01-01-2008, 04:37 AM

I've got my first bookmark bug yesterday. I started the Cybook and when I started reading my book I thought, "didn't I read this before?". The Cybook was putting me a lot of pages back from where I had left the other time before. I tried to set bookmarks in several books and also this didn't work.

I have my books only in the internal memory. I tried to use the SD, but it keeps getting corrupted so now and then.

dainys · 01-01-2008, 07:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by diabloNL

I've got my first bookmark bug yesterday. I started the Cybook and when I started reading my book I thought, "didn't I read this before?". The Cybook was putting me a lot of pages back from where I had left the other time before. I tried to set bookmarks in several books and also this didn't work.

I have my books only in the internal memory. I tried to use the SD, but it keeps getting corrupted so now and then.

I have similar bug also. It looks like it happens only when batery is low, 50 percent or below but I am not sure yet, need more research.

tompe · 01-01-2008, 09:41 AM

When you get the bookmark bug are you reading a lot of books or have used a lot of bookmarks? On the other hand bookmarks ought just to be saved in a file so it would be a bit strange if you ran out of some resource.

HarryT · 01-01-2008, 09:43 AM

Bookmarks get stored in the ".mbp" file for the book; there certainly should be no limit on them. As I said earlier, I use bookmarks a LOT when I'm proofreading books, and have not so far come across this problem.

diabloNL · 01-01-2008, 10:51 AM

My battery was 90% yesterday when I got this bookmark problem. I don't really use bookmarks, but I don't like to loose the last page where I was in my book.

Also I didn't have any bookmarks set. I just tried to set one when I found my current page back to prevent losing it again.

tompe · 01-01-2008, 11:26 AM

Could it be that writing a file require more power so when the battry is nearly empty it is OK to read the book but the writing of files will fail?

diabloNL · 01-01-2008, 12:11 PM

I don't think so because like I said my battery was at 90%.

Barcey · 01-01-2008, 12:55 PM

I've had the problems with bookmarks. I noticed it happening most on a book that had a lot of small graphics in it (i.e. at the start of every chapter).

If you experience it try going to the very first page in the book and select the option to remove all bookmarks. This worked for me but only when I did it at the very start of the book.

ProfJulie · 01-01-2008, 02:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tompe

When you get the bookmark bug are you reading a lot of books or have used a lot of bookmarks? On the other hand bookmarks ought just to be saved in a file so it would be a bit strange if you ran out of some resource.

Not at all. Reading one book at a time, and deleting bookmarks regularly - even going so far as deleting all prior booksmarks and maintaining only one bookmark at a time....I still eventually had a problem creating a new bookmark and my Cybook freezing up.

The issue seems to be random and I've not been able to discern any noticeable pattern to it. Over the last 3 or 4 days I read the The Da Vinci Code. On the second day, my bookmarks were a complete mess and the Cybook kept locking up. I finished up the book yesterday and had no problems setting bookmarks or going to bookmarks.

Alan · 01-02-2008, 02:53 AM

I mentioned before that I would try to regularly my Cybook to check whether or not this would have an influence on that bug.

Well, so far, at least for me, it has. I have enabled auto shutdown and usually switch off my Cybook after reading, even if I am only going to pause for 15 minutes or so. Since doing this I have never again experienced that nasty bug.

Alan

Striking Claw · 01-02-2008, 12:47 PM

Suddenly I could use bookmarks for my books stored on the SD-Card. I didn't reformat the card or anything.
Since then my Cybook switched several times between working bookmarks and not working bookmarks.
I was not yet able to determine what exactly causes the switch. My best guess at the moment is that it has something to do with connecting the Cybook either to load the battery or to synchronise it with the computer, because that's the only "special" thing I did. With bookmarks not working I connected my running Cybook with the power supply and after the cybook was loaded I disconnected it from the power supply without turning it off or reseting it and suddenly the bookmarks worked.

cmbs · 01-02-2008, 10:38 PM

I couldn't set a bookmark one time after several hours of reading, I had to turn it off and on again for it to work. Not only did it not set a bookmark, but it hadn't saved the page I was on either. Looking for the page is a pain in the butt. Now I set bookmarks often so I don't spend half an hour flipping through looking for the page I was on.

This book was on the Cybook's memory, not an sd card.
There are no graphics in the book, except the cover.
I've never turned off the auto shut-off feature, I've had it set at one hour since I got the Cybook.
The battery said it was at 100%.

The only thing different that I am aware of was that I had been reading longer than usual.

01-01-2008, 10:51 AM	#23
diabloNL Gadget Force® Posts: 705 Karma: 2733 Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: The Netherlands Device: Sony PRS-300 + Cybook with funny screen :P	My battery was 90% yesterday when I got this bookmark problem. I don't really use bookmarks, but I don't like to loose the last page where I was in my book. Also I didn't have any bookmarks set. I just tried to set one when I found my current page back to prevent losing it again. Last edited by diabloNL; 01-01-2008 at 10:53 AM.

01-02-2008, 10:38 PM	#30
cmbs non-believer Posts: 384 Karma: 713 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: USA Device: Cybook Gen 3, JetBook Lite	I couldn't set a bookmark one time after several hours of reading, I had to turn it off and on again for it to work. Not only did it not set a bookmark, but it hadn't saved the page I was on either. Looking for the page is a pain in the butt. Now I set bookmarks often so I don't spend half an hour flipping through looking for the page I was on. This book was on the Cybook's memory, not an sd card. There are no graphics in the book, except the cover. I've never turned off the auto shut-off feature, I've had it set at one hour since I got the Cybook. The battery said it was at 100%. The only thing different that I am aware of was that I had been reading longer than usual. Last edited by cmbs; 01-02-2008 at 10:45 PM.

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12-30-2007, 09:10 AM	#16
SandySchwab Mad Author Posts: 39 Karma: 34 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Frankfurt, Germany Device: Cybook	No, that bug doesn't occur because of the SD card. At the moment, I've stored all my e-books on the device itself, and when I've been reading for a fairly long time the Cybook refuses to place bookmarks and to remember the page I last read as well.

12-30-2007, 01:40 PM	#17
ProfJulie Evangelist Posts: 423 Karma: 890 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: USA Device: whatever	It is not a storage card problem. I've experienced lockups with books on the storage card and books in main memory. The bookmark function stops allowing me to assign bookmarks and I can't use the bookmarks I've assigned. I usually have to fiiddle around with the Cybook (turning it on and off, pushing the reset button on the back, plugging it up to my computer) before I can at least go into the Bookmarks option and delete all my bookmarks. After that I can start assigning bookmarks again until it happens again. This makes it quite tedious when I am reading a lengthy book and wind up losing my place in it. Then I have to start plugging in page numbers until I get close to where I was in the book and then I can start pressing the navigation button over and over until I get to my place in the book. The Cybook is great, but navigation is really awful.

12-31-2007, 05:48 PM	#18
Justy Fanatic Posts: 547 Karma: 27509 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Greater Vancouver Area, BC, Canada Device: Nexus 7, Sony Xperia z3 tablet, Kobo Glo, Boyue T63	I had the same problem with my ebooks on the SD card, but it went away when I moved them to the device. I hope the problem doesn't come back for me as it did for others.

01-01-2008, 04:37 AM	#19
diabloNL Gadget Force® Posts: 705 Karma: 2733 Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: The Netherlands Device: Sony PRS-300 + Cybook with funny screen :P	I've got my first bookmark bug yesterday. I started the Cybook and when I started reading my book I thought, "didn't I read this before?". The Cybook was putting me a lot of pages back from where I had left the other time before. I tried to set bookmarks in several books and also this didn't work. I have my books only in the internal memory. I tried to use the SD, but it keeps getting corrupted so now and then.

01-01-2008, 09:41 AM	#21
tompe Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,452 Karma: 7185064 Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Linköpng, Sweden Device: Kindle Voyage, Nexus 5, Kindle PW	When you get the bookmark bug are you reading a lot of books or have used a lot of bookmarks? On the other hand bookmarks ought just to be saved in a file so it would be a bit strange if you ran out of some resource.

01-01-2008, 09:43 AM	#22
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,544 Karma: 93383043 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	Bookmarks get stored in the ".mbp" file for the book; there certainly should be no limit on them. As I said earlier, I use bookmarks a LOT when I'm proofreading books, and have not so far come across this problem.

01-01-2008, 11:26 AM	#24
tompe Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,452 Karma: 7185064 Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Linköpng, Sweden Device: Kindle Voyage, Nexus 5, Kindle PW	Could it be that writing a file require more power so when the battry is nearly empty it is OK to read the book but the writing of files will fail?

01-01-2008, 12:11 PM	#25
diabloNL Gadget Force® Posts: 705 Karma: 2733 Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: The Netherlands Device: Sony PRS-300 + Cybook with funny screen :P	I don't think so because like I said my battery was at 90%.

01-01-2008, 12:55 PM	#26
Barcey Wizard Posts: 1,531 Karma: 8059866 Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Canada Device: Kobo H2O / Aura HD / Glo / iPad3	I've had the problems with bookmarks. I noticed it happening most on a book that had a lot of small graphics in it (i.e. at the start of every chapter). If you experience it try going to the very first page in the book and select the option to remove all bookmarks. This worked for me but only when I did it at the very start of the book.

01-02-2008, 02:53 AM	#28
Alan Connoisseur Posts: 55 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Germany Device: Bookeen Cybook Gen3	I mentioned before that I would try to regularly my Cybook to check whether or not this would have an influence on that bug. Well, so far, at least for me, it has. I have enabled auto shutdown and usually switch off my Cybook after reading, even if I am only going to pause for 15 minutes or so. Since doing this I have never again experienced that nasty bug. Alan

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01-02-2008, 12:47 PM	#29
Striking Claw Enthusiast Posts: 35 Karma: 102 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Basel, Switzerland Device: Cybook Gen3, ILiad, HP hx4700	Suddenly I could use bookmarks for my books stored on the SD-Card. I didn't reformat the card or anything. Since then my Cybook switched several times between working bookmarks and not working bookmarks. I was not yet able to determine what exactly causes the switch. My best guess at the moment is that it has something to do with connecting the Cybook either to load the battery or to synchronise it with the computer, because that's the only "special" thing I did. With bookmarks not working I connected my running Cybook with the power supply and after the cybook was loaded I disconnected it from the power supply without turning it off or reseting it and suddenly the bookmarks worked.