@michailbachtin
Something went terribly wrong in this thread! I think it is time for some clarification.
1) First of all, this is an open forum were people share information.
2) This is the developer thread intended for sharing infos about developing software for the specific branche, depending even more on clear informations.
3) My intentions about participating were to help with the problem and not to pester you.
4) If You had been more specific at the beginning a lot of confusion could have been avoided.
But lets analyse this:
You started the thread with a quite unspecific problem description asking for help and offering more information:
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Originally Posted by michailbachtin
… Let me know if I can help!B.
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Why unspecific?
You wrote about the
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Originally Posted by michailbachtin
Pocketbook … the latest software releases … WARNING: ANNOTATIONS ARE A PROBLEM
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Since we are talking about devices with embedded software, using the term firmware including the firmware number would have been much more precise. Pocketbook is producing software too, but this is an android app. I don’t think you did this on purpose but it was still misleading. Even a warning was included, raising the flag be careful for all Pocketbook users. Later in the text the information about your device is coming combined with other devices.
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Originally Posted by michailbachtin
Pocketbook Touch HD (which uses the same software as the latest Pocketbook Inkpad 2 etc)
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etc. opens this for all recent devices.
Problem description:
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Originally Posted by michailbachtin
In previous versions of the pocketbook software, the highlights and annotations for each ebook (whether epub or mobi) were stored in a separate file in the system directory of the device as an html file.
The new software for the Pocketbook series of eReaders has changed recently to the sql format: precisely what the Sony and Kobo eReaders use. … The sql code stored on the Pocketbook HD 631 is located in a books.db file.
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That I interpreted as:
Annotations are now stored in the a database file. There is no way to get to them.
Previous firmware of the aforementioned Pocketbook devices did not have this flaw.
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Originally Posted by michailbachtin
Pocketbook Touch HD (which uses the same software as the latest Pocketbook Inkpad 2 etc)
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Ok I thought, that is something I can work with. I invested some time to look at it.
First I made sure I had the latest version of „the new software for Pocketbook series of eReaders“ and looked at it. I could not find your problem. Second I downloaded the database file you mentioned to see, if I can find the problem and be of any help, and here some question arose. So I did what You asked as to do, having a look at the problem and asking questions to specify the problem:
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Originally Posted by michailbachtin
… Let me know if I can help!B.
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What now came after some days was not of any help. A long text about your contact to custumer service, how disappointed You are with Pocketbook and a call for us to stand up for a better software against the developer Pocketbook but not a single helpful comment about the questions asked to clarify the problem. That was frankly rude so I commented on the question about answering questions. Here at last came something helpful. You acknowledged contrary to what You wrote in the first post that:
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Originally Posted by michailbachtin
The DB file does not actually contain the annotations. It contains the file names and locations of the annotations from epubs.
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And telling me in the same post that there is no way to go back to a previous version of the firmware for the PB 631 and to go to play somewere else:
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Originally Posted by michailbachtin
There is no "forced update option to go back in firmware" in the Touch HD 631. As NASCARaddicted already noted above, you're in the wrong thread for info about the PB626, a device that uses entirely different note-taking and dictionary functions and that has no Text-to-Speech option.
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First I didn’t talk about TTS previously and I’m aware of the differences of the devices. As shown above Your description was unclear.
Second: You were wrong. There is a forced firmware update possibility and from Your unclear specification as quoted above I still assumed You are not aware of it.
Sorry but that was not an appropriate answer to someone who wanted to help with Your problem and I felt chided by someone who is narrowminded focussed on his specific device. That was what I was trying to say with „racist about Your device“. I’m sorry that You interpreted this as „You are a racist“ that was nether intended and I appologize for it. I don’t care about Your sex, colour or anything else. I just was focussed on the problem You wrote about and how to solve this. In the last post You clarified at last, that the PB 631 came delivered with that new annotation system and that they didn’t change it with a firmware update. If this info would have been in the first post …
My last effort to help You was:
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Originally Posted by michailbachtin
The new software for the Pocketbook Touch HD is available. … Can anyone tell us whether they fixed the highlighting and annotations? And how they work now?
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I did give You the tools to look for it yourself and see, that they didn’t solve the problem. That could have helped You. But no, even that You interpreted as ranting in Your thread, sorry I don’t know what to say about that …