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Originally Posted by Michael
Hello,
I am Michael and working at Bookeen.
I will try to answer to some of your questions. In the "Mobi version" of the firmware:
1) Better Menu structures: the menu structure has not changed but the "Key Repeat" feature has been added. It means that you no longer have to click 5 times to reach the 6th entry of your menu, just hold down the key. As we have also accelerated the video driver, the operation is fast. Among all the readers, Cybook Gen3 should have the fastest interface. By the way, the "Key Repeat" feature is also available for hyperlinks.
2) PDF support has not changed. Hyperlinks are not supported. Reflow is not supported.
3) No "NON DRM" ePUB support on Mobi version.
4) HTML, TXT support has not changed
5) Font size increasing and decreasing on + and -: this feature has been asked by many customers (some of them are Mobilereaders) so we added it.
6) There will be MOBI and ePUB firmwares available for all versions of the machines.
7) We have been recently been certified by Adobe. We are the first to receive this certification.
8) Reading while charging is not available. I am not sure we said it would be. But I am ready to stand the critics on this point.
"Mobipocket" version should be released first, few days before "ePUB" version.
We will add a post to describe the "ePUB" version features.
Best regards,
Michael for Bookeen
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Folder support is definitely a great thing and I really, really appreciate it. If there is no DRM-free ePub support, though, I wonder why that firmware had to wait so many months until ePub support was finished it it's not in the product now. (Sorry, but for me switching between differents FW versions to read different books is not really a viable solution).
Size increase is a nice idea and I think I will use it every now and then but it's clearly not a killer feature. For the time it took to finally get the firmware done it's a little weak (and that's even without chlorine mentioning that it seems to work a little erratically)...
The "key repeat" is a feature I have to test out before I can say anything. In other applications and devices it has proven to be a mixed blessing greatly depending on how the buffer is handled. On other devices I had it was basically unable to use because it buffered key presses and would continue to flip through stuff long after you stopped pressing the button. By then having to flip backwards you wasted more time than it would have taken you to reach the desired menu/page/etc. in the single key press mode.
But let's wait and see. Judging from the past it'll be some months till we can really test this out because Bookeen will still have to make the firmware available for download and that seems to be quite a task. They haven't even gotten around to writing a blog entry with the new features and upping a file for download is a lot more work
Sorry, Michael, if we make fun of your company here but how it is possible to work on a firmware and not get around announcing the feature on one's own blog for weeks and taking days just to make it available for download when it is apparently finished is beyond me...