03-30-2012, 09:17 AM | #1 |
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Japanese PRS-T1/G1 2.0 updater available
Sony Japan just released a software update for the PRS-T1 and PRS-G1 that takes you from 1.1.11230 to 2.0.00.15150 .
Here's the link: http://www.sony.jp/reader/update/index.html Here's what it says:
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04-08-2012, 12:03 PM | #2 |
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Is there any solution for install this Japanese firmware to an English base PRS-T1 device?
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04-08-2012, 09:07 PM | #3 |
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I have no idea. If it were indeed possible, I'd like to try the opposite and make mine English, since I read 99% English books on it anyway. The Japanese firmware only has a single font, which is a bit of a drawback.
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04-09-2012, 09:34 AM | #4 |
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Some guys out there made thread to manual add favourite font to PRS-T1, have you give it a try? Now I can read Vietnamese unicode font on my reader without root it, and may be even Japanese font if I try harder. Still love original reader program on PRS-T1, and wish my PRS-T1 also has Kanji dict like your device.
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04-09-2012, 03:40 PM | #5 |
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It also seems significantly more stable and somewhat faster with page turns. If I allowed a backup with the Reader software when connecting to the PC my notes and the page position in the book got lost. Do you know if this has been solved?
After that happened to me a couple of times I finally caught on and only connect it with Calibre, but I would like to use the Reader software as well. |
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04-10-2012, 09:08 AM | #6 |
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Unfortunately it seems that the v2 firmware borks the line spacing, at least for the non-DRM'ed Epubs that I've tried.
Here's a photo of my T1 on the left (with DecalGirl black skin) and my wife's on the right, running the old version. Same book, approximately same page. Notice how loose the lines have become on the left-hand one. Can I have my 1.1.11230 back? |
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Why is there no font selector, but just the size selector shown on the screen? Is that because of some custom css styling in the epub? If then, can you open the eBook in an editor (e.g. Sigil) and see what the line-height setting is in those particular paragraphs? If it's close to the double-spacing in the v2 firmware screenshot, maybe Sony is doing the right thing. If not, they're in trouble...
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04-10-2012, 10:28 PM | #8 |
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No, the Japanese T1 has no font selection ability, like I mentioned up in #3 of this thread (nor can you change the UI language at all). I'm assuming it's partially a drawback of having the relatively large Japanese font onboard, filling up the memory space that would be used for multiple tiny little roman fonts on a non-Japanese unit. One Japanese font can easily take up 3-10 MB.
I haven't checked what the CSS is telling that book to do, it's just an Amazon AZW converted to ePub by calibre, with everything set to the defaults. A couple more amusing effects of the update:
The line spacing, character spacing, and aggressive hyphenating now make all my books noticeably more difficult to read. I'm honestly beginning to look at rooting the thing, just to see if other reader software options can display the text more readably. Last edited by Snorkledorf; 04-10-2012 at 10:34 PM. |
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As can be seen from your photo, the default font has changed between the two versions. This could explain some of the differences, the linespacing in particular.
I'd be curious to know your impressions when that change is abstracted; would you mind trying with an EPUB that incorporates a font (e.g. Darwin's Journal of Researches, available at http://efele.net/ebooks/livres/000177/index.html; pick the "epub" version, not the "epub-"). As for the aggressive hyphenation: have you seen if there is a reading option to turn it off? Thanks in advance, Eric. |
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Good idea for the test. I opened both the "...font" and "...plain" versions of the epub and they look identical on the T1 with v2 software. Sigil displays the "...font" file with more tightly spaced lines, but that's not reflected here.
I guess this means that Sony is just ignoring the font settings? As for the hyphenation, I haven't noticed any new options appearing in the menus. |
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04-17-2012, 09:48 PM | #12 |
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Didn't the PRS-T1 standard reader app not support hyphenation at all last time I checked? Is that new?
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04-17-2012, 10:09 PM | #14 |
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I'd never noticed if it used to hyphenate or not; the 1.x screenshot does show none at all. To my eye it's still way easier to read than the 2.x layout. At least the second set of screenshots of the Darwin book only has 2 hyphenated words, rather than the overboard 6-on-1-screen of the first set.
I'm now noticing that the Sony updater page now explicitly mentions two of the issues: that Epubs are going to look different due to a change in the font, and that handwritten notes are going to be in the wrong places. I don't know if that line was there before, but if so it needed to be emphasized a lot more than it is/was. |
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JSWolf, thanks for that. Since the PRS-T1 had ignored the embedded font, I hadn't tried messing with the CSS directly yet. Adding a line-height: 1.17em; entry in Sigil seems to put it more or less at a similar vertical spacing as the 1.x firmware, at least for that book. Now I just have to manually edit each and every book I want to read...
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