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Originally Posted by pdurrant
What enhancements would you like to see in a future firmware update for the Gen3? I'm thinking of specific features rather than vague wishes like "longer battery life".
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Please add suggestions to the end of this thread, and every so often I'll copy them into this message for easy reference.
I've split the suggestions into two categories.
1. Those that should be easy to the existing firmware/interface
2. Those that would require large changes to the code and/or interface.
In the first category we have:
* Battery life on reading pages
* Easily read while charging
* Delete Book function
* Re-open last book on startup
* Current page number in Goto Page dialog
* Margin size preference
* Goto Page... for library view
* Library pages should wrap from last page to first page
* Sort by Author option
* Dictionary lookup to be first option in menu
In the second we have:
* Folder display in library
* Support for adding/sorting/searching tags and other meta data
* Caching of library contents for constant boot time
* Text library view - just the titles/authors, no cover images
* Global bookmarks - not just per-book
* Button configuration preferences
* Landscape mode for Mobipocket, etc.
* Upside down mode
* Notes with virtual keyboard
* Standalone dictionary lookup (using virtual keyboard)
* After a dictionary lookup, remember the word looked up, and return to that word if visible at next look up request,
* Zip archive support (treat as a folder)
* Time Display
* PDF reflow
* ePub support (full support - embeded fonts, etc)
* html/mobipocket links to other books
* Option to replace library view by index.html file
* .lit support.
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I have to say I don't have a Cybook, and I don't know how far it's possible to support these feats, so I'm just gonna fire some ideas ok?
How about
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- a searchfunction
- shell os like DOS or linux shell
- Package manager
- games ( minesweeper, Sudoku, tic-tac-toe, 4 in a row, cards like solitaire and freecell, mahjong, chess, dammen, go, backgammon, some games like LOOM or qbasic gorilla or RPG which don't require lots of graphics, or moving graphics, or require a fast latency to play the game, and can be played in B&W/16color mode, text based games,... )
- agenda
- clock
- alarm (blinking screen if no speaker available)
- I don't know about the cybook, but the Sony reader seems to suffer from a slow indexing process once new books have been uploaded, or lots of books are found on the card. So background indexing when connected to AC?
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