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Old 02-22-2015, 09:56 AM   #522
CoronarJunkee
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Device: Onyx Boox M96
So I installed the 2015-02-04 Firmware...

... and I want to report on some behavioural aspects of the system I've been noticing so far.

Neo Reader:

- I still cannot use the joystick to navigate through the navigation preset but have to click on the screen with the stylus

- scribble menu keeps popping open or close without any obvious reason

- sometimes, things seem to become unresponsive (joystick, page buttons and menu button don't do anything). I then have to click on the screen to open the scribble menu, close it, and only then the keys work again.

- sometimes, the eraser tip acts as a pen.

Library:

- "now reading" only appears when M96 is allowed to scan the whole device. I think that with the initial firmware I had, even with "scan books folder only" enabled, it showed also "now reading" pdfs that weren't placed in the books folder.

General:

- I've had quite a few app crashes so far. Mostly the google play store and sometimes the neo reader. Haven't used much more so far. But I think it's worth mentioning.


My wish list:

Neo Reader:

- Getting the scribble menu either out of the way (maybe by just leaving a little icon in a corner) or smaller. Right now, it's impossible to scribble at the bottom of the page or to read the bottom of the page when the scribble menu is open. So the process of closing and opening it every page is a bit tiresome. Especially in landscape mode it's taking up so much of the screen. I think it's totally sufficient to access the scribble menu through the menu button btw. no need to have it open all the time.

- getting to use the joystick to navigate through pdfs AND/OR:

- finding some other clever use of the big pen options. For example stylus tip always in scribble mode, stylus tip + side button = eraser, backside of stylus for navigation or panning.

- I'd love to have the selection zoom to work the way i've seen it in many videos: drag a rectangle around the part you want to zoom into. Especially that the selection box is square and centred to begin with doesn't make so much sense to me. You have to move at least one side of the selection and then move the whole selection around.

Library:

- Some way of placing folders there or to custom the opening page so to see the "storage" menu rather than the library. I organise my pdfs around different research subjects. There's really no use for me to have them placed in some random order on my welcome screen.

Thank you very much, Booxtor, for putting so much effort in development and improvement of the OS and the apps. I'm excited to see where all this is going. I've only had the M96 for three days but it's already been very helpful to me.

Cheers,

CJ

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