[Peto]

Well, after all we have written in roughly one day, I think we need a thread to gather some general conclusions. I'll add some myself from what I gathered reading, since I have not updated yet. You guys correct me if I'm wrong.

1.- Obvious, but should be said just in case: The firmware update is irreversible.
2.- The old hacks don't work. Will have to be adapted. Some already have.
3.- Reflow works normally fine, but not always and can lose editing. Reflow can work without installing DE.
4.- PDF treatment is not perfect, but is much better than it was. PDFs are now at least, readable in the worst case, which they weren't with the old firmware.
5.- Epub works fine.
6.- You can delete books from the Reader but not ad to it from the cards.
7.- Some speed increase has been commented on when opening books or going through the menus.
8.- 8 and 16 GB SDHCs don't seem to work well.
9.- Universal flasher is already available with the clock hack and the chance to add fonts.
10.- The FW Update gives the reader NO touch screen capabilities. Whatever you read about it.
11.- You can update the Sony library without updating firmware.
12.- Adobe DE is ONLY needed for reading DRMed PDF and EPUBs.

These from TANZAKU:

13.- "The display looks like it has more contrast!" Not a reasonable observation, but for some reason it does seem easier to read. Hmmmm . . . better font rendition? Is the "paper base" whiter with epub than with a PDF?
14.- Definite increase in battery life.
15.- Incredible decrease in file size? What was a 4mb PDF for a longish book is now 800k for the same text! I've now downloaded about 40 epub books from Feedbooks and all of them are about 20-25% the file size of the same book formatted as a PDF.
16.- Boot-up is faster. Navigation is faster. Waking up from sleep is really faster. Yay!
17.- The font size changes with epubs is excellent. (With only one slight glitch in the chapter titles of the Feedbooks epubs I've been reading -- at the Medium font size, the first line of the chapter titles seems to be flush right and sometimes cuts off some of the text.)

From Dr MOZE:
18.- Multiple page turns. If you hit the 'next page' button several times quickly, it will flip to the next page and then immediately to the final page.


Questions:

1.- Advantages for the average LRF user?