File conversion, e.g. using OpenOffice.org
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DRM free content can be displayed usefully per the original firmware but even excellent per OI. Especially the CoolReader3 (cr3) really is 'cool'.
If you want to go to a certain page it automatically generates a table of contents using chapter head lines (as can be seen on my photos below). And you have 8 bookmark slots available to jump forth and back wherever you want.
Actually almost everything is adjustable such as font size and family, kerning, line spacing and so on; just as the real Linux user likes it.
Book files or office content can be exported to PDF via OpenOffice.org using page size 90 mm x 120 mm and a reasonable font size of your choice.
Just as well you can use the export filters for .pml (odt2pml =>
http://extensions.services.openoffic...projectodt2pml ), resp. the formats .txt, .rtf, .pdb, .html, but also .swf. for other E-Reader devices or maybe coming features of OI.
Of course there are a lot of other commercial as well as non-commercial and open source applications for conversion purposes. With Linux there are also some for the command line.
Battery Life
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Until now I charged the battery only 1 time. Meanwhile I switched and flashed firmwares approx 5 times and flipped pages approx. 3000 times as well as (using OI) left the device lay on the table several nights (as recommended). There is only a shutdown script in OI; the on/off button is more or less useless here; and it seems there is an autos-uspend (You can read that in the boot-up messages). I suppose it will suspend if not used for a while.
After 8 days of use now it reached the last battery charge mark on the display. FB reader says 19% now. I am curious when the battery will run out. As Li-ion batteries take several charge/discharge cycles before they reach their full capacity I expect even more capacity in the near future.
As long as I don't buy a DRM book I will stay with OI.
STABILITY
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I didn't experience any OI of BeBook firmware stability problems, yet.
We'll see what the future brings.
I hope this article is useful for you.
Enjoy reading
gwitt
P.S.: As there is no pre-installed or otherwise manual available for openinkpot I converted the OI website's manual to a BeBook legible PDF format. I hope not to violate rights when I post it here for download (Licenced according to: CC-BY-SA 3.0:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)
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