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I thought I'd make a comment about the way Mobi does the funny paging. My understanding is that this is due to the fact that the format originalted on Palm devices and all the constraints imposed by that. It seems that to speed up the handling of long ebooks, the text is stored in the Mobi file in chunks that are decompressed on the fly when reading. Only a specific chunk of text is decompressed at a time, which is the cause of the paging problem when you jump a huge distance in the file. This is especially bad when you jump backwards, as others have noted.
So, if Bookeen implemented the Mobi way of doing things (which it seems they did), then the Cybook is going to have the same problem as any other Mobi reader software, on any platform. As to whether they are allowed to implement this differently, only they know for sure.
This just points out one more reason to move away from archaic ebook formats like Mobi (and others), which were designed long ago, under different constraints than we have today. Why carry the old baggage forever?
The other thing that is missing from this discussion is the fact that the Cybook handles other ebook formats, not just Mobi. How is the paging issue handled in these other formats by the Cybook software?
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