Last 3 days, most of the emotions of these forums where concentrated in our neighbours with Sony readers as Sony did come out with the firmware upgrade that makes the Sony a ePub reader, and a Pdf’s reader permitting the text to reflow, as letting acess to DRMed ePub and Pdf files!
I’m amazing happy for them, as they get what I think is an early Christmas present.
The reports posted show the upgrade does works really well, and I bet all those happy people are now enjoying the new features.
So THE question is: what is going to happen with the Cybook?
From “inside information” shared in the Meeting in Paris last 18th of July (
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...0&postcount=81) we can infer we will have ePub.
But…how about Pdf’s with reflow text?
I have call for reflow text in Pdf’s that since the beginning and I think that would have made the Cybook a leader in the eBook readers market.
Even people who just want it for leisure, sometimes need to read one or another Pdf, and even if the presentation of the text it’s not perfect, as Sony users have reported, now it’s readable… for me, it would increase the reader’s usefulness by ten times!
Hey, now when people asks for advice when buying a reader but have lots of Pdf’s, no more I need to say, “today you have the Iliad, but…”(it has a small screen, is too expensive, etc…). Today I could just say: get yourself a Sony 505!
Is Sony passing us?
Or is real reflow reading being worked out? (Booken… hint… hint?!!)
Can someone (with info) clear this out?
And one more thing: the Sony upgrade is just for the 505, the 500 can not have it, apparently because of memory restrictions…
This can make us wonder…
So ladies and gentleman what do you think?