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Snuffi · 01-07-2008, 05:45 AM

I've had some time to play around with my Cybook since Christmas and I must say that I'm pretty pleased so far. I have followed the threads in this forum for a while even before I bought it but I must admit that I didn't really have most of the problems reported by some people here.

So far the only problem was one freeze which I didn't notice immediately because if the book hangs you still see the text and think that the button is not accepted. I've just read a few responses up that someone connected the freeze with the Liberation fonts, I also use Liberation Serif (thanks, btw, found this font by a suggestion through this forum) and have been using it for nearly two weeks now. With only one freeze I cannot say for sure that it's connected to the font but if it is it doesn't seem too frequent.

Other than that I had two "crashes" (system reboot, just like if you switched off and on the device) when trying to open two PDFs. One PDF was 80MB, though, and the other 40MB and I received them from a friend so not sure which Version number (of Acrobat) these conform to (or whether they were made with some other software). As those two documents are really very big, I wouldn't really say that's a bug, although strictly technical it probably is.
But as Harry T. already pointed out in this forum: It is currently not very viable to read PDFs formatted as a full page (Din A4, e.g) on a device like that and there's not a lot they can do about it (at least as long as PDFs are displayed as graphics, so a reflow is not possible).

As for the other "bugs": While I certainly agree that they should add most or all of the features discussed in this thread, I'd go with Harry T. in that I wouldn't see those as bugs. A missing feature (even if it is an absolutely indispensable one) IMHO is only a bug if the features is mentioned in the official feature list (or handbook). Otherwise nobody said it would be there...

I've had a couple of electronic gadgets recently and while I absolutely hate it that nowadays everything seems to come as an unfinished product, the Cybook IMHO is one of the best v1 I've had in a while. A few small things I am willing to accept and I give them that it was very important for them to start selling it in time to ship it before Christmas as that surely a major economic factor.

One thing bothers me a little bit, though: The last entry in the official blog dates back to November and the entire blog doesn't really give you much information (I don't really count those entries which just tell you that there's a new review available -> those things should go in the "Press" section), I would have expected more info on what is worked on...

Does anyone know if they read these forums? If not maybe one should try to make them aware if it, there are some excellent suggestions in the wishlist for the next firmware release and it would be counterproductive if everyone mailed them the same thing over and over again. Also they might give the forum back some information which would help a great deal...

01-07-2008, 05:45 AM	#40
Snuffi Addict Posts: 245 Karma: 718 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Vienna Device: Pocketbook Pro 612, Bookeen Cybook Gen3	I've had some time to play around with my Cybook since Christmas and I must say that I'm pretty pleased so far. I have followed the threads in this forum for a while even before I bought it but I must admit that I didn't really have most of the problems reported by some people here. So far the only problem was one freeze which I didn't notice immediately because if the book hangs you still see the text and think that the button is not accepted. I've just read a few responses up that someone connected the freeze with the Liberation fonts, I also use Liberation Serif (thanks, btw, found this font by a suggestion through this forum) and have been using it for nearly two weeks now. With only one freeze I cannot say for sure that it's connected to the font but if it is it doesn't seem too frequent. Other than that I had two "crashes" (system reboot, just like if you switched off and on the device) when trying to open two PDFs. One PDF was 80MB, though, and the other 40MB and I received them from a friend so not sure which Version number (of Acrobat) these conform to (or whether they were made with some other software). As those two documents are really very big, I wouldn't really say that's a bug, although strictly technical it probably is. But as Harry T. already pointed out in this forum: It is currently not very viable to read PDFs formatted as a full page (Din A4, e.g) on a device like that and there's not a lot they can do about it (at least as long as PDFs are displayed as graphics, so a reflow is not possible). As for the other "bugs": While I certainly agree that they should add most or all of the features discussed in this thread, I'd go with Harry T. in that I wouldn't see those as bugs. A missing feature (even if it is an absolutely indispensable one) IMHO is only a bug if the features is mentioned in the official feature list (or handbook). Otherwise nobody said it would be there... I've had a couple of electronic gadgets recently and while I absolutely hate it that nowadays everything seems to come as an unfinished product, the Cybook IMHO is one of the best v1 I've had in a while. A few small things I am willing to accept and I give them that it was very important for them to start selling it in time to ship it before Christmas as that surely a major economic factor. One thing bothers me a little bit, though: The last entry in the official blog dates back to November and the entire blog doesn't really give you much information (I don't really count those entries which just tell you that there's a new review available -> those things should go in the "Press" section), I would have expected more info on what is worked on... Does anyone know if they read these forums? If not maybe one should try to make them aware if it, there are some excellent suggestions in the wishlist for the next firmware release and it would be counterproductive if everyone mailed them the same thing over and over again. Also they might give the forum back some information which would help a great deal...