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Originally Posted by Mrs_Often
First impression [...]
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Second impression...
Hardware: very comfortable to read! Comfortable to hold, and the screen is very smooth (especially compared to the Glo's rough [IR] screen). It's responsive and fast (but then again, I'm comparing to the old Glo...). It's a little difficult to use the sliding finger up/down the left of the screen to get an exact percentage (like 1%) of the light brightness, but with a bit of practise I got the hang of it. I also like the button at the bottom. It works when I want it do, and it doesn't work when I'm just resting the device on the button on my finger(s)/hand while reading. And then the actual LEDs... unfortunately there are some LEDs that shine brighter spots in the direction of the screen from underneath the bezel. I compared the two devices I ended up with (I need to send one back), and the brighter spots are in the same locations on both devices, however on one of the devices it is more prominent (brighter) than the other. See image (I'm holding the protective plastic up from the screen of the left device on the picture, it's not a screen defect
... oh and I see I must have tapped the menu while doing so; the lighting menu should have been showing on both screens. You'll just have to trust that I had the same lighting settings on both devices
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EDIT: I forgot to add: the light is soooooo much less bright (duller?) than the Comfortlight on the Glo. Even in full blue-hue. With the red lighting, 1% is too dark for me to read when there is still a small light on in a dark room! Yay! This makes me very happy, as I have very sensitive eyes and 1% brightness on my Glo was still to bright to read even with a light on in a dark room. Also, comparing the two devices, one device is slightly brighter at 1% than the other, and it is also more red (the other is doesn't go as far down the orange scale towards red).
Unfortunately, the device with the brighter spots on the bottom right is the one that is less bright... how am I going to choose which device to send back!? Agh.
Firmware (4.8.11090): There seem to be some bugs (or I messed things up, I will have to factory reset and see if they're still there):
- Changing light percentage (sliding finger up/down the left side of the screen) shows the percentage in the top margin. This should go away (and be replaced with book title if reading real Kepub) once I start reading again, but it doesn't. It just stays there however many pages I turn... (this was fixed after a restart)
- There seem to be two books "anchored" to first and second position on the home screen. The book cover of the first book thus always shows up on screen in sleep mode, even if it was not the last book I opened/read. Third and fourth position is adjusted properly when I open/read new books... It's weird because I haven't read the books stuck on first and second place in months (years?) so the "last read date" can't be an issue
This wasn't fixed after restart, restoring to original config file or after repairing my account. EDIT: If I manually remove books 1 and 2 from the home screen, books 3 and 4 become books 1 and 2, and the same anchoring occurs... EDIT 2: Normal behaviour is back after factory reset, but I haven't fully set up my device yet, I just added four books to test this.
- Order of sorting is not remembered when browsing Collections... But I didn't check this after restoring the original config file. EDIT: Works fine in 4.7.10733 after identical setup as 4.8.11090)
For the rest it all seems identical/very similar to the 4.811073 firmware on my Glo (except obviously for the added Comfortlight PRO options and the missing games in beta features... I'm hoping for working patch-stuff for the 4.8.11090 (this is a new concept to me as I think the whole concept was developed while I was away from this forum for aaaaages, so I'll have to look into that in more detail to know what on earth I'm talking about).
I like the new-ish fast page progression thing too. Works well. Thank you davidfor for pointing out you can change the page flipping speed by moving your finger across the device! I wouldn't have figured that out on my own I don't think. It's a little tricky, because if I start flipping pages forward and slow the speed down by moving my finger to the left, I move my finger over where the page number is displayed so I can't see what page(s) I'm at/moving through, and if I move my finger diagonally left/up so I can still see the page number, the flipping stops because I'm not touching the bottom of the screen any more. But I suppose, if I know what page I'm wanting to go to I can just type that in in the "go to page" place instead of doing the flipping. So I'm moaning about nonsense.
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Originally Posted by geek1011
- There is now a disable quick turn reading setting (it can be set in the config file, maybe the gui) (ReadingSettings::disableQuickTurn)
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It's not in the GUI as far as I can see. But yep, adding disableQuickTurn=yes to config file disables the flipping!
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Originally Posted by geek1011
- A whole bunch of resize events have been added to basically every control (I wonder why)
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I've no idea what I'm talking about, but could this have anything to do with the new "Large Print Mode"? It's new in the beta features (or at least, it's the first time I've seen it, I don't know if it's new to the device, the firmware or to earlier firmware/device where I wasn't paying attention).
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Originally Posted by CH23
Clara = Nova
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Oh, that's a
much better name! From now on I'm calling my device the Nova! (Honestly, who chooses a cow's name for an ereader
[sorry to any Claras out there, no offence, and you're obviously
not a cow if you're reading this].)
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Originally Posted by Ripplinger
Capacitive screens often don't play nice with my skin for some reason. I visit some office buildings that have it in their elevator buttons and I often just wait for someone else to come along to finally push it.
And the glove issue... [...]
A capacitive reader just isn't workable for me. The glove issue makes me wonder why anyone would want one, unless of course they only read in their warm and cozy homes.
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That makes sense, thank you for sharing. Does that mean you don't use
any capacitive screens/devices, so also no touch screen smart phone, no laptop trackpad, no tablet, etc? Must be quite a hassle to find things that work with your fingers. But it must be bad if you can't even comfortably hit an elevator button... And yes I now mostly read in a warm and cozy place, and I've quit using public transport so I don't have the glove issue any more.
