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Originally Posted by HarryT
That is, I believe, the only person who's reported such a problem, compared to the many people (including myself) who've found significant improvements as a result of the upgrade - the dictionary look up is a lot faster now - the navigation button response has been much improved. Several known bugs have been fixed (eg issues with large cover images on books, and problems with some dictionaries not finding words have been sorted).
What have you got to lose by upgrading? You can always reflash with firmware 538 if you don't like it.
By the way, for the first few months of its life, the Sony was very buggy indeed - it was only really after the 2nd firmware upgrade that things stabilized.
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If it's so easy to reflash why is JW LaRue begging someone to email him the 538 build?
Look, Harry, I respect your expertise. You have great technical prowess with book reformatting and other matters, one of the reasons you are a mod and I'm not.
I've had way too many bad experiences 'upgrading' Windows only to have programs cease to function or misbehave in a zillion different ways. The word is out now that the SP3 for XP is buggy and causes endless reboots.
Until I'm sure that the cybook upgrade is really going to improve things and not cause me more problems than I already have I'm going to be cautious and wait.
I re-read that thread and there are not a lot of truly favorable comments about the update. Some neutral, others negative.
It's been my observation when only one person is upset with new software there are scores of others who have not taken to time to express their disappointment.
If there is truly an easy way to reflash back to 538 I may try it , but until then I'll live with what I got. I like my Cybook a lot and presently split reading most of my books between the Iliad and the Cybook, with the Kindle used for newspapers and blogs and Sony used to quickly find a place in a book because of the great menu.