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Solicitous · 08-23-2010, 06:59 PM

Hi Jenifer,

My thoughts on updates are;

- Include Coolreader 3 (was put in April2010 FW).
- Allow the option of opening non-drm epubs with Coolreader or ADE (user choice). LBook offer this by the user giving a long-press of the button and giving the user the option to open in CR3. This works well.
- There are a vast array of file formats, unfortunately very few of them work. I have never been able to open a .DOC or .PPT (I assume the .DOC needs to be from an early version of MS Word), .MOBI locks up and has done since the PP release, and apparently .LIT isn't even worth trying. Other than .TXT and .RTF I havent tried any of the others outside of .FB2, .EPUB and .PDF.
- Provide some documentation and allow us to change the TTS voice. Nice feature, I don't particularly like being read to by a robot. The Kindle TTS sounds more human.

- Not sure if Astak can do this, but can the implementation of ADE NOT display those pesky page numbers down the right hand side?? Unfortunately I'm losing some good screen real estate by having to set a margin on the right side just to make room for the page numbers so they don't interfere with the text of the book (and then some poorly formatted ebooks I find with a font size increase the page numbers increase themselves making the ebook a narrow strip like a newspaper column down the middle). Better still, allow ADE to ignore (user setting) margins in a DRM'd ebook.

Now a nice feature if the programmers have the inclination (though this is a personal request and not a required fix to the firmware), would it be possible to display the cover of the ebook when you lock the screen instead of just a blank screen with the 'locked' message at the bottom?

Second nice feature is the ability in the Bookshelf view having the ebook title/author split over two lines;

eg;
The Eye of the World
Robert Jordan

Someone did post pics a while ago with the LBook firmware having this feature (I did never get it to work).

I know the last two are nice-to-have aesthetic changes, but with all ereaders now having nice menus etc, it is getting hard to recommend a PP to new users because of the good features when they all say "oh but this one looks so much nicer".

08-23-2010, 06:59 PM	#4
Solicitous Wizard Posts: 1,434 Karma: 1525776 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: TAS, Australia Device: Astak Pocket Pro (Black), 2 x Kindle WiFi (Graphite), iPod Touch 4G	Hi Jenifer, My thoughts on updates are; - Include Coolreader 3 (was put in April2010 FW). - Allow the option of opening non-drm epubs with Coolreader or ADE (user choice). LBook offer this by the user giving a long-press of the button and giving the user the option to open in CR3. This works well. - There are a vast array of file formats, unfortunately very few of them work. I have never been able to open a .DOC or .PPT (I assume the .DOC needs to be from an early version of MS Word), .MOBI locks up and has done since the PP release, and apparently .LIT isn't even worth trying. Other than .TXT and .RTF I havent tried any of the others outside of .FB2, .EPUB and .PDF. - Provide some documentation and allow us to change the TTS voice. Nice feature, I don't particularly like being read to by a robot. The Kindle TTS sounds more human. - Not sure if Astak can do this, but can the implementation of ADE NOT display those pesky page numbers down the right hand side?? Unfortunately I'm losing some good screen real estate by having to set a margin on the right side just to make room for the page numbers so they don't interfere with the text of the book (and then some poorly formatted ebooks I find with a font size increase the page numbers increase themselves making the ebook a narrow strip like a newspaper column down the middle). Better still, allow ADE to ignore (user setting) margins in a DRM'd ebook. Now a nice feature if the programmers have the inclination (though this is a personal request and not a required fix to the firmware), would it be possible to display the cover of the ebook when you lock the screen instead of just a blank screen with the 'locked' message at the bottom? Second nice feature is the ability in the Bookshelf view having the ebook title/author split over two lines; eg; The Eye of the World Robert Jordan Someone did post pics a while ago with the LBook firmware having this feature (I did never get it to work). I know the last two are nice-to-have aesthetic changes, but with all ereaders now having nice menus etc, it is getting hard to recommend a PP to new users because of the good features when they all say "oh but this one looks so much nicer".