[LoneTech]

My expectations aren't very high, but initial testing shows this to be a marked improvement. Among the changes that were apparently not mentioned, we find:

The on-screen virtual keyboard has stopped the stupidly long lag, by allowing overlap of the keypress animations. This brings it from horribly slow to usable. One of my major gripes is now fixed.

fbreader must finally have been upgraded, as it now shows epub pictures and formatting rather well. It still has its rather own take on html files, but at least they do load.

The new web browser (seemingly Arora) allows browsing local files, giving a more accurate html viewer (you could enter file: URLs before, but the keyboard was awful). The old Midori browser would just exit if you cancelled internet connection. Unfortunately, this one keeps trying to reconnect, very rapidly, so using it offline still doesn't really work.

The new note taking is indeed now available in adobeviewer, pdfviewer and fbreader. No such luck in djviewer.

The new library browser is much faster, in addition to having more sorting options. The tabbed lists are gone, so it seems we now have to flip page by page. One quirk is that after launching something, it will keep the selection box on the thing you launched, but the direction buttons sometimes move it from somewhere else.

The volume buttons work in text to speech, a large improvement from the far too loud setting the previous beta was stuck at. Still no quick way to fix the language to match the book.

The dictionary list has changed, it can be scrolled quicker by holding a direction, and some dictionaries are now marked "Demo version". The dictionary I actually used and wanted, which was disabled by the great Bait&Switch downgrade, is simply gone.


I've only noticed some minor issues from this update so far:

My bookmarks don't all work. I expect this is a format change issue between versions, much like they don't carry over when you switch viewers for the same book.

Calling up the dictionary in adobeviewer on the last page of a book causes adobeviewer to exit.

The new library/filesystem browser doesn't have an obvious jump to page control.

The new web browser (Qt based this time around, are you just teasing us with these standard libraries we can't use because the SDK and source are missing?) draws menus in a horribly strange and slow manner.