I have had my Pocketbook Era since the end of January, 2023. There are three items so far on my wishlist:
- A quicker way to connect bluetooth headphones. Currently, or at least the way I have found to connect my Tozo earbuds involves center-tapping the page you are reading, then tapping the gear icon in the top right, then going into bluetooth, then selecting the headphones, then hoping they connect. (Sometimes, they pop up the "cannot connect to the bluetooth device" error, which then requires turning off bluetooth and back on, and hoping for the best. Today, I was going to listen while I shopped, and I don't know if it was because of the number of bluetooth devices, but it took me almost 5 minutes to get the reader to connect to my earbud.) Perhaps a "last bluetooth device connected" icon or something in the pulldown menu, so we don't have to drill down through multiple layers of menus would be helpful.
- Interface with Calibre and/or ability to read the book number in sequence of a series. Now maybe I am just too new to the pocketbook interface, but I have, as yet, been unable to get my Era to talk to Calibre on my FreeBSD desktop. I can manually mount the Era on my filesystem and copy books over, and the series seems to get copied from my filesystem, but not the books in order. When clicking on Series, the books appear in alphabetical order.
- Night mode. White text on a black background. 'Nuff said.
So far, the Pocketbook Era is a wonderful device, especially coming from a 4" Nokia N900 running FBreader. My eyes ain't getting any younger, and the 7" e-ink display of the Era is great.
Thanks,
--vr