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Old 05-26-2008, 02:57 PM   #8
jotheman
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I recently (-_-)'' lost (-_-)" my Chinese ILIAD and to 'save' some money, I now bought myself a Cybook instead of a new iRex device.

What motivated me to do so was the simple support for Asian languages they boast about on their website. Just install the fonts and there you go! Problem is: it doesn't work. I haven't got any chinese html, pdf or txt file to work yet and my last hope is the mobipocktet conversion, which is kind of cumbersome for me, as I am a Mac user (Mac compability being another thing Bookeen boasts about)...

Anyway, why is it so difficult to create a usable, multi-language, stable and responsive firmware for a closed device like the Cybook? I have used it for a day now and it has crashed on me at least 5 times. Whenever there's a big file to be displayed or a chinese pdf or a large non-chinese pdf or ... it will just hang itself. Not to mention that there isn't even the simplest navigation of them all: a folder structure for files (OK, I was aware of that before I bought it, but still, how hard can it be to implement this?).

Feeling kind of disappointed right now. The guys at Mobipockted don't show any intention of producing a Mac version of their software and I am at my whits's end as how to quickly and simply do my Chinese reading on the Cybook. If they could at least clarify how a chinese html file for example has to be formated so it can be displayed. Not to mention clarify that displaying Asian languages isn't as easy as advertised to begin with.

I had some problems with my ILIAD as well, so I get the impression, that all these devices are kind of in a commercialized test phase, letting users pay a hefty prize and then having them give feedback on how to do things better. We're in the 21st century, for God's sake!


jo.

PS: Nowadays, Chinese is written from left to right just like most other language, so that's not a problem.

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