[review]

So, here we go. First, a disclaimer: this is no official upgrade and in no way connected to pocketbook. This program shouldn't harm your computer but systems are different. If it doesn't work as intended I'm not responsible at all. So, if you download this app and use it you agree with this statement above.

Now, after the legal stuff the fun part. How to get it work on your device. Please read carefully. It is important that you understand what today. If anything is not clear please ask first.

The idea is pretty simple. The technical implementation was a bit a challenge. So I'm for the moment skipping the challenges and just explain the idea:

In order that this hack works in all programs (epub, protected epub, djvu, pdf, protected pdf ...) we have to use a very fundamental implementation. So I use the following approach:

1) the user takes a screenshot
2) my program imports this screenshot to scribble
3) scribble loads this screenshot and can draw on this screenshot.

The nice thing about this is that the step 1 can be repeated a few times before we go to step 2 and 3. So if you have for example a 5 pages academic paper you can repeat (1) five times and then go to step 2. The advantage is that you can use in scribble the next and back button very quickly.

So that was the theory. Now, here comes what you have to do for INSTALLATION
1) I strongly suggest that you change the double tap of the power button to "take a screenshot"
2) then I strongly suggest that you change the single tap of the power button to "last opened books"
3) unzip the attached file and upload it to the device (the place doesn`t really matter)

here are the steps for ANNOTATIONS:
1) before you run my app open the book you want to make annotations in
2) close the book (1 and 2 are there so that this book is in the last opened book list)
3) start my app annot-0.0.2
4) you will see scribble. we don`t do anything here but single press the power button (make sure you did step (2)) you will get the last opened books
5) open the book you want to annotate
6) when you come to the page you want to annotate, double press the power button
7) a message will pop up that says that a screenshot has been taken.
8) now you have two options: either go straight into annotation mode or continue to collect pages. For the later go back to (6)
9) once you decide to go into annotation mode press for a short time the back button (next to the fourway button)
10) scribble will open. go to the next scribble note until the page is there you want to make notes on.
11) to go back to the book DO NOT close scribble!! single press the power button and open the book from the last opened book list
12) if you want to quit the whole program just close the scribble application with a short back click.

I`m sure there are a lot of bugs and I`m happy to improve the version once we identify some bugs.

As a final note: DO NOT press the home button. That is a system call. And the system doesn't know of my program running so you end up with a mess on the screen.
IF this happens by mistake: just turn of the device (long press on power) and turn it on again. That will clear up everything.

I will take a break now for a few hours. So feel free to comment, but I won't be able to reply until later.

Have fun!

EDIT: Users of 2.0.4 (December 2010) please scroll down, there is a modified version for those firmwares available. The version here is for 2.0.4 (January 2011).