08-24-2010, 05:22 PM | #16 |
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I have reported several bugs that were never fixed. It would be nice to see a firemware upgrade that took care of that.
Long ago, I was able to get a TOC in an epub to use an embedded font. That changed after a firmware upgrade and has never come back. Bookmarking was changed from quick and useful to slow and painful. Links in epubs still do not work. These things are important to me and the sudden lack of development last fall has left me feeling cheated and wondering why I bought this thing. I expected bug fixes and good tech support from my pre-purchase research and that lasted about 1 month after my purchase. My current experience is definitely going to have an impact on future device purchases. |
08-24-2010, 06:34 PM | #17 |
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08-24-2010, 06:43 PM | #18 |
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I completely shut-down my pp when I know I won't be using it in the next couple of hours. (I know I don't need to but I prefer to do so as I feel that, this way, I get a bit more page turns from my ereader before I have to charge it.)
It would be great if when I power my ereader on (it sounds funny to me, it may not be the correct expression but it sure sounds better than saying "when I turn my ereader on"!!! ), it would open directly on the last page I was on when I shut it down rather than on the menu page. |
08-24-2010, 07:06 PM | #19 | |
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Besides the wait and losing track of what book (recently read will get you back to a ADE logic page) and having to reset the clock (needed if you are reading Library books). The battery saving might even be NEGATIVE, since a full boot takes more work than waking up. ( I have had my PEz for almost a year now. Leave it on except to Upgrade or recover from a really bad lockup) |
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08-24-2010, 08:30 PM | #20 | |
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08-25-2010, 03:21 AM | #21 | |
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I agree also, need image zoom functionality for PDF. |
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08-25-2010, 08:37 AM | #22 |
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I would like to see format customization (line spacing, spacing between paragraphs, paragraph indent, font, font size, justification, margins, page header...
Take a look at Stanza on the iPad, that has some good options. |
08-25-2010, 08:52 AM | #23 | |
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I think the suggestion you made is a good one. ADE needs some minor adjustments, this is one of them, and as I posted earlier, remove those damn pesky page number from the right hand margin!!!! |
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08-25-2010, 04:13 PM | #24 |
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I doubt Astak has any direct feedback into ADE development. The best they could do is make sure the latest version of ADE is applied in the future--whatever that brings to the table bad or good.
That's a big part of why most of my suggestions have tended towards tweaking the file interface. That's the part that Jinke controls, and Astak can perhaps get most easily worked on. |
08-25-2010, 07:12 PM | #25 | |
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08-28-2010, 08:26 PM | #26 |
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I have been reading this forum since I picked up my nice little EZreader, which i love love love. I do NOT love the last firmware upgrade. And I had issues with the one before that.
Mainly, I have big problems with the .lit (microsoft reader) files. While I use very nearly every other file type, I still have great piles of .lit. And the firmware hates it. Doesn't display; displays interesting characters and spaces; takes forever to load; locks up. lots of lock up. Bah. the last firmware had major power issues. It was running down within a couple of hours of reading. So I went and have the lbook one, but great googlymoogly, it's slow. And apparently the cache gets full at only 100 mb. It also hates .lit, but not as much as the Astak firmware. And I can't delete the stupid cache until I find a computer somewhere. (just learned about the cache. that whole locking up and endless reset presses. grr) So, getting back on topic : 1. please make .lit happier. 2. please see what was up with the power 3. i would like to be able to delete the cache Thanks! |
08-29-2010, 09:24 AM | #27 |
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This is probably a repeat:
Coolreader and all of the features promised in the March/April 2010 FW update but without the battery drain when I go and lock my PP for the night. |
08-29-2010, 11:50 AM | #28 | |
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08-29-2010, 07:33 PM | #29 | |
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08-29-2010, 09:54 PM | #30 |
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Lbook is faster for me then using Astak's firmware. I don't know why. I've never had a cache issue that most talk about either. *knocks on wood* I use the script Dave posted to delete the cache regularly but never had the corrupted cache issue, I just like to keep my PP tidy.
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