Comparison of all available V3 firmwares

Rapefruit · 09-08-2009, 12:08 PM

Hello Everybody!

I think what is missing in the wiki is a comparison of all available firmwares. I'm thinking of comparing features, stability, speed, flexibility, usability and output result quality. (Certainly not in that order.)

My aim is to encurage others in experimenting with different firmwares, thus improving the user experience.

There is a listing of official firmwares mentioned in the wiki:

HANLIN: http://www.jinke.com.cn/Compagesql/E...ice/update.asp
LBOOK: http://www.lbook.com.ua/en/downloads/firmwarev3
PIXELAR: http://www.mye-reader.co.uk/updates.php
BEBOOK: http://mybebook.com/a11/downloads/article_info.html
EZREADER: http://www.theezreader.com/html/support_firmware.html

But it is quite obvious that there is something important missing there: At least Open Inkpot needs to be added here and if I understand correctly, there are also enhanced versions of the lBook Firmware that may be different enough to be included in an overview (although I've never run anything like that myself yet).

I would like to ask all of you to make suggestions for entries to the comparison (with firmware version and link, if possible). Unless there are good reasons (feature wise) I think it reasonable to keep the number of firmwares down to max. two versions from each "supplier".

Also, I'm trying to put together a selection of reference files for the most important formats to allow for a fair comparison. Does anybody know of such a compilation or is it time to define our own?
I am thinking about:

Document formats (PDF with scans, Reflowable PDFs, PDFs with multi-column, DOC, RTF etc.)
Ebooks (MOBI, EPUB, TXT, etc.)
Image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG etc. color, grayscale and line art, in various sizes with and without need for on-device scaling)
HTML (With and without links, CSS, columns, tables, pictures, etc.)

Thanks for the help!

Rapefruit

DaleDe · 09-08-2009, 01:19 PM

I think a comparison of the features of the firmware would be interesting. In addition I am thinking a comparison of the various formats would also be interesting. I think only the current versions should be compared unless there is some specific reason to hold on to an old release, such as DRM mobi support for example.

Dale

Dopedangel · 09-10-2009, 05:16 AM

Astak just added hyperlink support in Pdf & epub in there latest firmware update I haven't tried it yet

I am using BeBooks latest firmware that has search and better text size support for epub
has no hyperlink for epubs yet but I am ok with it.
as I only read epubs I have formatted myself.

09-08-2009, 12:08 PM	#1
Rapefruit Member Posts: 13 Karma: 98 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Neuss, Germany Device: Hanlin V3 (64MB)	Comparison of all available V3 firmwares Hello Everybody! I think what is missing in the wiki is a comparison of all available firmwares. I'm thinking of comparing features, stability, speed, flexibility, usability and output result quality. (Certainly not in that order.) My aim is to encurage others in experimenting with different firmwares, thus improving the user experience. There is a listing of official firmwares mentioned in the wiki: HANLIN: http://www.jinke.com.cn/Compagesql/E...ice/update.asp LBOOK: http://www.lbook.com.ua/en/downloads/firmwarev3 PIXELAR: http://www.mye-reader.co.uk/updates.php BEBOOK: http://mybebook.com/a11/downloads/article_info.html EZREADER: http://www.theezreader.com/html/support_firmware.html But it is quite obvious that there is something important missing there: At least Open Inkpot needs to be added here and if I understand correctly, there are also enhanced versions of the lBook Firmware that may be different enough to be included in an overview (although I've never run anything like that myself yet). I would like to ask all of you to make suggestions for entries to the comparison (with firmware version and link, if possible). Unless there are good reasons (feature wise) I think it reasonable to keep the number of firmwares down to max. two versions from each "supplier". Also, I'm trying to put together a selection of reference files for the most important formats to allow for a fair comparison. Does anybody know of such a compilation or is it time to define our own? I am thinking about: Document formats (PDF with scans, Reflowable PDFs, PDFs with multi-column, DOC, RTF etc.) Ebooks (MOBI, EPUB, TXT, etc.) Image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG etc. color, grayscale and line art, in various sizes with and without need for on-device scaling) HTML (With and without links, CSS, columns, tables, pictures, etc.) Thanks for the help! Rapefruit Last edited by Rapefruit; 09-08-2009 at 03:55 PM. Reason: Cleaning up

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09-08-2009, 01:19 PM	#2
DaleDe Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,470 Karma: 13095790 Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Grass Valley, CA Device: EB 1150, EZ Reader, Literati, iPad 2 & Air 2, iPhone 7	I think a comparison of the features of the firmware would be interesting. In addition I am thinking a comparison of the various formats would also be interesting. I think only the current versions should be compared unless there is some specific reason to hold on to an old release, such as DRM mobi support for example. Dale

09-10-2009, 05:16 AM	#3
Dopedangel Wizard Posts: 1,759 Karma: 30063305 Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Singapore Device: Boyue	Astak just added hyperlink support in Pdf & epub in there latest firmware update I haven't tried it yet I am using BeBooks latest firmware that has search and better text size support for epub has no hyperlink for epubs yet but I am ok with it. as I only read epubs I have formatted myself.

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