So, now we have 2.0

[Godzil]

Originally Posted by EowynCarter

What about 2.1
Bugs
- The +- shortcuts on gen3 sometimes won't answer (btw making these shortcut works for pdf too )

This is a limitation of the 200Mhz models. These key can't wakeup the device so when it sleep, theses keys will do nothing..

[Jellby]

Originally Posted by Godzil

This is a limitation of the 200Mhz models. These key can't wakeup the device so when it sleep, theses keys will do nothing..

Yes, I got a reply from Bookeen. I had previously realized that you have to use these keys just after using some other key, not letting the unit go to sleep. It's not only a matter of turning the page or showing the menu, you have to be quick

[sbin]

Originally Posted by EowynCarter

What about 2.1
Bugs
- The +- shortcuts on gen3 sometimes won't answer (btw making these shortcut works for pdf too )

If you specify font size in pt, the Cybook will stick to that size and will not change it with the + or - buttons. Try using em units in the css and it'll work just fine.
The same is valid for font family specifics: if you specify a typeface in the css, the Cybook won't allow font changes.

Uhm... maybe you were saying just the the buttons don't work

[bkelly]

Originally Posted by EowynCarter

What about 2.1

Let try to make a list of features that would be nice to have, bugs to fix, all that.

Bugs
- The +- shortcuts on gen3 sometimes won't answer (btw making these shortcut works for pdf too )
- Metadata for ePub not read anymore
- The Status Bar is hiding images and hiding text for pdf files in landscape mode. This seems to me to be an obvious bug.

All / Menus
- Beter getion of landscape mode without the accelerometer. (Menus, ePub can be swiched to lanscape only with the accelerometer)
- shortcut to activate / de-activate accelerometer.
- Ability to display in the folder field, how many files/directories there are in it, and how much space they take (can be empty fields until folder is entered, or when the information is old)
- Encoding selection
- Assign thumbnails to folders
- A direct dictionary input.
- Move books and folders between folders in Folder view.

Mobi
- Page numbers

ePub
- Hyphenation
- Bookmarks
- Dictionary
- Multi level TOC

Since Mobi was mentioned in the original post, I assume it's ok to include requests here for the 1.5 version. But unlike EowynCarter I have an Opus, which I hope you won't hold against me. Just let me know if you'd like for me to move this to another thread, or if I should start a new thread specifically for Opus 1.5>1.6.

1. Sleep mode. Enable a way to turn off the screen and disable all buttons (except the power button) without actually powering down the reader. Then when the power button is pressed, the reader "wakes up" and quickly returns you to where you were when you put it into sleep mode.
2. Allow all icons and book covers to be disabled in the library. Use the recovered icon/cover space to expand the books' titles/data into, so that when two columns are shown in the library you can actually see the entire title.
3. Add the ability to mark books as "read". And add a filter option that filters out the marked books. (Others are requesting the ability to move books between folders, such as into a Read folder. This is a fine idea, but not one that I can use since I use an automated synchronization/backup program to make my reader's folders look just like the folders on my computer. So any folder changes I make on the reader will eventually be overlayed.)
4. Make the entire library scrollable using the up/down keys, just like scrolling through a book's TOC.
5. Combine the font family and the font size selections into one so that both changes can be implemented simultaneously. And include some sample text that displays how the new font family/size will appear before it's implemented. I suggest that an alphanumeric character string be used as the sample text, rather than using a sentence, because the sentence might not contain some of the characters that look odd in some fonts (like the letter g having a sqiggly tail, or the letter I looking like the letter L and the number 1). I suggest using: AaBb...Zz, 0123456789
6. Enable the option to have a black background with white characters. In some lighting this might prove to provide a better contrast than the current light background and dark characters. See the top of the library for an example of how light over dark looks.
7. Enable a way for displaying a book's metadata, not necessarily permanently in the library, but maybe in a pop-up window.
8. Allow buttons to be reassigned by the user. I don't use the two side buttons on the Opus, so I would reassign one to be "enable sleep mode" and the other to go into lookup mode.


Edit: Actually now that I've submitted this, I realize that I haven't requested anything that's unique to 1.5, and the only item that's specific to Opus is the key reassignment, which of course is something that G3 owners might also want.

[T_Frain_K]

I would like to add, anything that could be categoriced as custumization request does not neccessarily need to be accessible via menu.
It would be sufficient to create a config file in the systems folder, which the user can change and is being read at the next boot.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by T_Frain_K

I would like to add, anything that could be categoriced as custumization request does not neccessarily need to be accessible via menu.
It would be sufficient to create a config file in the systems folder, which the user can change and is being read at the next boot.

Oh dear, no, please! Can you imagine that the typical user would like that? You've got to have a UI for changing things.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by HarryT

I've had a reply from Bookeen about the ePub metadata bug:

Too bad it won't be fixed until Monday.

[tompe]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Oh dear, no, please! Can you imagine that the typical user would like that? You've got to have a UI for changing things.

Why restrict the possibilities. The right thing is to first create configuration files and then maye an UI. If we have configuration files there will be a web page were people can download different configurations. I also think people here will write programs with UI that created the configuration files.

[bkelly]

Originally Posted by tompe

Why restrict the possibilities. The right thing is to first create configuration files and then maye an UI. If we have configuration files there will be a web page were people can download different configurations. I also think people here will write programs with UI that created the configuration files.

I agree. If we could get new features faster by having config files, then I'm all for it. Then a later update to the UI could follow.

[Jellby]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Oh dear, no, please! Can you imagine that the typical user would like that? You've got to have a UI for changing things.

I wouldn't expect a user-defined CSS to be editable from the Cybook

Also things like customized folder icons could be a candidate for configuration files (or similar).

[T_Frain_K]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Oh dear, no, please! Can you imagine that the typical user would like that? You've got to have a UI for changing things.

I´m just trying to minimize the neccessary effort.

[Truttebol]

Do you guys have problems with your topmargins in 2.0?

When I checked a random ePub book I saw that on some pages there is no margin on top. All text is placed directly against the topframe. On other pages the margin is about 5mm. It's ugly!

I checked the same book on my Sony and there it has decent margins on all pages.

[EowynCarter]

Originally Posted by Truttebol

Do you guys have problems with your topmargins in 2.0?

When I checked a random ePub book I saw that on some pages there is no margin on top. All text is placed directly against the topframe. On other pages the margin is about 5mm. It's ugly!

I checked the same book on my Sony and there it has decent margins on all pages.

From what I saw, top margin follows the ePub css's and page template.
I have what you describe, but with the bottom margin.

[bkelly]

Originally Posted by Truttebol

Do you guys have problems with your topmargins in 2.0?

When I checked a random ePub book I saw that on some pages there is no margin on top. All text is placed directly against the topframe. On other pages the margin is about 5mm. It's ugly!

I checked the same book on my Sony and there it has decent margins on all pages.

Most (if not all) of the epub books I looked at had their text displayed up against the top edge of the screen. This was on an Opus.

I didn't have much of a problem with the top margin, though I can see how some would. What bothered me, and caused me to switch to 1.5 for Mobipocket, were the left/right/bottom margins being so large. The only epub book I've seen with perfect margins was a free one that I'd downloaded from the Adobe Ditial Editions web site.

[Jellby]

Originally Posted by Truttebol

When I checked a random ePub book I saw that on some pages there is no margin on top. All text is placed directly against the topframe. On other pages the margin is about 5mm. It's ugly!

Yes, the default margins in the Cybook are weird, to say the least.