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Originally Posted by jswinden
I'm glad it worked on your 300. It looks like crap on my 300:
- Takes forever to boot up
- Takes at least 2 minutes to open an average ePub
- ePubs look more like a non-formatted text file than an ePub
- Does not display all the characters correctly making the text difficult to read
- It cannot find pre-loaded books
Their concept is nice and the feature set is great. But this software is not even close to being alpha, much less beta released. It needs a LOT of work and by competent programmers. I wouldn't waste time installing it yet. |
That's weird I can't imagine that identical hardware running identical software would have such a different experience. I timed my unit and here's what I got:
From Boot Menu to main screen of ebookapps: 10 seconds
Opening an e-Book: 30 seconds. (until it's fully loaded and ready to turn a page, not until it first shows text on the screen)
ebook length: 127,000 words, 360 pages in paperback form
Now, to one complaint of yours that I'm starting to agree with more and more is the lack of formatting on an epub. I'm finding that even section headers are wrapped right along in with the text and not separated. Links are also broken, I like flashing back and forth between the superscripts and the chapter endnotes, but can't in ebookapps.
The reason it can't find preloaded books is they wanted to keep you out of the sony filesystem so that never the 'twain shall meet, if you will. At least that's the gist I got from reading their forum. To get around this, I just copy whatever book I want to read over into the "books" folder that's on the root of the drive, and then it sees it.
But what keeps me using it is
- the ability to read in "right handed" landscape mode, i.e. with the number row along the top instead of the bottom. I find the metal "spine" of the reader is a great thumb grip when reading in bed.
- the ability to change between three type faces, an "arial," "DejaVu Sans" and "DejaVu Serif" I'm really liking DejaVu Serif as my main reading font.
- 7 font sizes
Additionally, menu navigation and page turns seem to be faster than the sony, unless I keep the font at a really small size, then it actually takes longer.
I'd disagree with the "alpha" comment, to me it feels like a beta...has quirks, isn't ready for prime-time, but getting there.
Just curious, how much time did you "waste" installing it? I downloaded a zip file, extracted the folders, and copied the folders to my device....30 seconds, tops? I say give it a try and if you don't like it, switch back. It's so easy to "uninstall" you don't really have anything to lose by trying it out, and a lot to potentially gain.
MY main next feature request would be a simple text highlighting tool. Don't need to annotate, but highlight would be nice for my needs at the moment.