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Originally Posted by Graham
I don't have a Kindle or a Pocketbook, but here's a selection of what Bookeen have added to the Cybook Gen 3 series:
- ePub and FB2 support in addition to the original Mobi support
- Vastly improved PDF handling, with crop to margins, TOC and better zooming
- Folders in the library
- Improved contrast through clever boldening of text
- Faster page turns
- Mapping of the hardware buttons to access further features
- Improvements to handling of TXT files (e.g those from Gutenberg)
- More interface languages
- "Instant reading" sleep mode (with last page left displayed)
- Ability to delete books from the device without connecting to a PC
- Reduced power consumption
Graham |
Very interesting, thanks, Amazon's example would be even more interesting however.
In case of Sony Readers:
FB2 is out of question, that's basically gray part of former USSR market (piracy).
Improved contrast is irrelevant.
Faster page turns are only possible if original frimware sucked.
Same for reduced power consumption.
List of changes makes me wonder about how stable was the original firmware, especially when you compare it to Sony's.
Don't get me wrong, I think Sony could have improved stuff on older readers, it's just, what they release is very polished from the beginning and their quality standards are much higher than that of smaller competitors => updates cost them a lot more.