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Originally Posted by bbusybookworm
The Gen3 seems to crash every now and then after a about and hour of so of reading. A couple of times It was when reading a text file. The last few times, was when I was reading a comic strip (Gif's on a 256mb SD card formatted FAT32) and It just froze and switched off. Is this normal?This is after the firmware update.
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I've also suffered this with the new firmware. It seems to be more likely if you browse a lot around the library, open books, change settings... If you just stick with one book and read it, I think it does not happen so often.
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It also seems to be corrupting a 2gb sd card I have inside it, in the middle of reading. while I have taken it out and reformatted it to FAT32 a couple of times.Haven't tried it after upgrading the firmware. Does the new firmware help in this regard in anyway. I've temporarily got another 256mb sd card in it right now.
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Just after upgrading the firmware, in one of the crashes, my card was corrupted, a whole directory disappeared and was replaced with the contents of another directory...
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When trying to read a couple of PDF's with a lot of images inside (25mb), it just shows a blank page half the time, and the other half, just crashes the device.
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Yes, that seems normal. When a page is "too complicated", the Cybook shows it blank. I guess the crashes are also more frequent with big and complex PDFs. However, with mainly text (and some illustrations) PDFs, it seems to work fine. For instance, I've read the PDFs I've uploaded here without any problem.
I have the impression (but no proof) that the blank pages are more frequent with the new firmware, though.
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Is it possible to set the actual zoom level when viewing PDF's or Jpegs, as opposed to just fitting to screen, to width or to length.
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Not at the moment. But you can switch to landscape mode too.