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tribble · 02-04-2007, 06:15 AM

OK, this means we basically agree on most points.

The difference is, that you are a patient person, and you are just waiting for the iLiads potential to come to life, while i am not that patient, and would like to see more of the iLiads potential already being used.

Let me put it this way. There is no device on the market, that can do things like the iLiad even closely. What i am complaining about, is the usability of the device is bugging me a lot. And most of the things that are bugging me, are things that seem like little things to change (we,, i dont have a clue, what really has to be done about it, since i know nothing about ARM programming

) Its just small things like:
- 6 items on a page is not enough, make it more.
- show longer filenames in two lines.
- show me my current pagenumber and total pagenumber in the contentlister
- let me jump to a page directly, by using the keyboard.
- give me callibration for my stylus
- give me an autoshutdown function, so i dont accidentally drain my battery.
- give me a back button in PDFs, especially, when reading 1000 page books, with links in them, and you cant jump back to your previous page, but you have to search it manually.

And thats just the simple stuff, which would greatly enhance the usability experience

More advanced things like:
- fulltext search
- annotations and highliting on pdf for standard information exchange with others (no, scribbles arent enough, because i cant use them elsewhere at the moment, but that will probably change when we get an appropriate merging tool)
- bookmarking support with shortterm bookmarks.
- citation export on publications with BibTex support
- suspend to CF
- categorization system
- make an automatic index for pages with scribbles on them

Well, i could go on and on. But i have to say: You are right, that this is whining on high standard

and i wouldnt be whining, if i knew, there was no way, the iLiad could what i want it to do.

So in conclusion, we agree, that the iLiad is a great device with no real competition on the market in terms of functionality. We would not give it up for any of the other devices. If we only wanted to read books, we could save money and buy the sony Reader. But we want the bigger screen, the better resolution, the stylus, the WiFi and we want the iLiad to live up to its potential. Only i want it now and you can wait

BTW, i really love the flipbar, if it only wouldnt make a clicking noise ... OOPS ... darn ... sorry, i just cant stop whining

Ill try to better myself.

02-04-2007, 06:15 AM	#20
tribble iLiad Maniac Posts: 1,382 Karma: 2369 Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Germany Device: Bookeen Opus (i love that thing) and iPad (what an irony)	OK, this means we basically agree on most points. The difference is, that you are a patient person, and you are just waiting for the iLiads potential to come to life, while i am not that patient, and would like to see more of the iLiads potential already being used. Let me put it this way. There is no device on the market, that can do things like the iLiad even closely. What i am complaining about, is the usability of the device is bugging me a lot. And most of the things that are bugging me, are things that seem like little things to change (we,, i dont have a clue, what really has to be done about it, since i know nothing about ARM programming ) Its just small things like: - 6 items on a page is not enough, make it more. - show longer filenames in two lines. - show me my current pagenumber and total pagenumber in the contentlister - let me jump to a page directly, by using the keyboard. - give me callibration for my stylus - give me an autoshutdown function, so i dont accidentally drain my battery. - give me a back button in PDFs, especially, when reading 1000 page books, with links in them, and you cant jump back to your previous page, but you have to search it manually. And thats just the simple stuff, which would greatly enhance the usability experience More advanced things like: - fulltext search - annotations and highliting on pdf for standard information exchange with others (no, scribbles arent enough, because i cant use them elsewhere at the moment, but that will probably change when we get an appropriate merging tool) - bookmarking support with shortterm bookmarks. - citation export on publications with BibTex support - suspend to CF - categorization system - make an automatic index for pages with scribbles on them Well, i could go on and on. But i have to say: You are right, that this is whining on high standard and i wouldnt be whining, if i knew, there was no way, the iLiad could what i want it to do. So in conclusion, we agree, that the iLiad is a great device with no real competition on the market in terms of functionality. We would not give it up for any of the other devices. If we only wanted to read books, we could save money and buy the sony Reader. But we want the bigger screen, the better resolution, the stylus, the WiFi and we want the iLiad to live up to its potential. Only i want it now and you can wait BTW, i really love the flipbar, if it only wouldnt make a clicking noise ... OOPS ... darn ... sorry, i just cant stop whining Ill try to better myself.