[James Bryant]

I hope this is the correct place in this forum to make these points. If not would someone please point me to the right place.

I have had my Cybook for a month and am very pleased with it but:-

[A] Hyperlinks to Chapters are described in the Electronic Manual, but do not work with any of the HTML ebooks I have installed.

[B] The USB socket is recessed - I have had to butcher a mini-USB connector because none of the twenty plus that I tried would push in far enough to make data contact. Only about 60% made power contact. Cutting away plastic on the connector solved the problem, though. I suspect, but have no suitable plug to try it with, that the same problem may occur with some audio connectors. In both cases cutting away the case of the Cybook to a depth of 4 mm below the joystick and a little to either side would solve the problem.

[C] The Library can hold a maximum of 20 items per page. It would be helpful if the library had either a GOTO or fast forward/fast back function. When I got my Cybook I loaded my SD card with all the HTML and TXT book files I had had converted to .RB or .IMP in my older ebooks and was delighted that I could get them all on one 2 GByte card. But 4217 books take 211 library pages, and the only way to step through the library is with five keystrokes and a pause per page.

It was too much. I have reduced the count to 1000 books per card, and even this is very boring - particularly as sometimes, for no reason that I have ever discovered, the book comes on with the library reset to page 1. If I was reading a book on page 29 (as I am at present) it is a long time before I can be reading it again.

[D] Even better would be to organise the Library by folders and sub-folders (as my books are already organised) and display them line by line as text rather than labelled icons, and only display the contents of a selected folder.

[E] My REB1100 turns on at the page of the book that I was reading when it was turned off. Even if I do not have to step through the library it is a full half minute from turning on the Cybook3 to starting to read. This is bearable, but should not have to be necessary.

[F] Library thumbnails are prepared when you go for the first time to the page containing them. This means that if you enter a lot of new books the first time you step to one of them there can be very tedious waits while thumbnails are prepared on the intervening pages. It is not possible to navigate while this happens. Such work should be a background task during reading so that unless you need to navigate immediately new material has been entered you do not need to wait.

[G] If the battery state and the time were displayed while reading, and updated on each page turn it would be convenient. Would it cost much power?

[H] The "position in book" bar under the reading page (can't remember the correct name) has a bug when the book has more than 2000 pages or so and goes offscreen to the left instead of to the right somewhere around the middle of the book (not exactly in the middle).

[I] It would be nice if the Cybook could read unencrypted .RB and .IMP books, as there are a lot of them around.

[J] The left-hand side controls are easily operated by mistake. A simple plastic cover supplied with the Cybook would be nice.

James - who is actually very pleased with his Cybook, but does not let that blind him to things that could, and should, be improved.