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Moonraker · 03-30-2006, 09:24 PM

I wanted to try the Wolf software on my PC before making a decision about the Hanlin e-ink reader. I downloaded this but could not use it because I kept getting "I can't load the resource DLL" error message, I emailed Jinke and I got a reply from someone named "May" asking me to send screen images of the errors. I did this and a couple of days later received another email from "May" to say their technical people had updated their software so It should now work.

However, I downloaded the software again, only to find it was exactly the same as before. It would not work. I had downloaded the software applicable to the "V2 and V8" which you would think was correct. However, I went back to the Jinke site and downloaded the wolf reader applicable to their products S6 and S2+! ( V3.56) and tried this. Lo and behold - it installed and worked perfectly!
I made a few books using the Wolf Maker from HTML and RTF files and then checked them out in the WolF Reader.
I was shocked at how bad they were. All bold and Italics are lost. Centering is retained. But the worst thing is that punctuation is all over the place. Full stops (periods) are often on the next line instead of remaining with the last word of a sentence. The same with some apostrophes. For instance - a word such as "he'd" (short for he had) appeared as "he' ..... with the d on the next line.
It got worse...... the last word on a page was often (not always) repeated again at the top of the next page!
It got even worse when I noticed that not only single words were being repeated on the next page...... but whole groups of words were being repeated.
And even more disheartening..... when I realised that some sentences just didn't seem to make sense..... I checked them out and found that whole words were being missed out altogether.
I don't know if this is being caused by the software not being compatible with WindowsXP or whether their understanding of the English language is lacking.
Whatever, I will not be purchasing this device until I hear some very good hands on reviews about it.

03-30-2006, 09:24 PM	#37
Moonraker Addict Posts: 314 Karma: 1002965 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: UK Device: ILiad. Gen 3, PocketBook 360, Kobo Aura HD, Kindle Oasis 2	I wanted to try the Wolf software on my PC before making a decision about the Hanlin e-ink reader. I downloaded this but could not use it because I kept getting "I can't load the resource DLL" error message, I emailed Jinke and I got a reply from someone named "May" asking me to send screen images of the errors. I did this and a couple of days later received another email from "May" to say their technical people had updated their software so It should now work. However, I downloaded the software again, only to find it was exactly the same as before. It would not work. I had downloaded the software applicable to the "V2 and V8" which you would think was correct. However, I went back to the Jinke site and downloaded the wolf reader applicable to their products S6 and S2+! ( V3.56) and tried this. Lo and behold - it installed and worked perfectly! I made a few books using the Wolf Maker from HTML and RTF files and then checked them out in the WolF Reader. I was shocked at how bad they were. All bold and Italics are lost. Centering is retained. But the worst thing is that punctuation is all over the place. Full stops (periods) are often on the next line instead of remaining with the last word of a sentence. The same with some apostrophes. For instance - a word such as "he'd" (short for he had) appeared as "he' ..... with the d on the next line. It got worse...... the last word on a page was often (not always) repeated again at the top of the next page! It got even worse when I noticed that not only single words were being repeated on the next page...... but whole groups of words were being repeated. And even more disheartening..... when I realised that some sentences just didn't seem to make sense..... I checked them out and found that whole words were being missed out altogether. I don't know if this is being caused by the software not being compatible with WindowsXP or whether their understanding of the English language is lacking. Whatever, I will not be purchasing this device until I hear some very good hands on reviews about it.