[Alan]

Originally Posted by HarryT

You can't claim that something that you think should be there, but isn't, is a "bug"

Right, technically it might not be a bug. Practically it is, because they just "forgot" to ad an important feature.

Of what conceivable use are page numbers on a device where on has a limitless variety of fonts and sizes? My page 100 in a given book won't be the same as your page 100.

When I buy a paperback book it has more or less pages than the hardcover version. So we don't need page numbers there either? I do not need page numbers to compare one book with another (though that might be helpful too) but to navigate in the book I am reading right now.

I use bookmarks ALL THE TIME to mark pages with errors while I'm proofreading my books. I am aware that some people have had problems with bookmarks, but it seems to be a damned elusive bug! Have you encountered it yourself?

Yes, I have. Apparently frequent reboots solved that problem for me (for the time being). It's like Windows only worse.

Yes, there is. You can sort by title, file size, file date, or something else I forget off-hand. It would be nice to be able to sort by author or genre, I agree, but you can't claim that there's "no way to sort books".

OK, again a badly integrated feature then.

Unreliable in what way?

It is unreliable under 40 %. 40 % or less rather means "empty". Battery indicators are always more or less a problem. But there is indeed a difference between 40 % and 10 %. With the current firmware 40 % means "charge battery immediately!". Good to know. I can live with it, as long as I know how to interpret those numbers. But there should not be any interpretation if the indicator would work more accurately.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that the v1 firmware is perfect - it obviously isn't. But I think that FOR a v1 it's pretty damned good, and I'm sure that Bookeen will improve it with future firmware releases; their history of doing that with the old CyBook (which I also have) is very good indeed.

I do not doubt that in any way. They will certainly improve the firmware over time. But this was not my point. My point is: Please to not outsource an important part of the development process to the customer. Testing is part of the development process. You will never find all bugs, that's for sure. But you can at least eradicate the big and crunchy ones before you begin to ship your product.

Alan