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Originally Posted by superhero
This is false. The page turns are much faster and the unit itself seems a little zippier plus there are a couple of tweaks like adding clock and battery to the top.
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Perhaps you should watch what you are saying a little bit, how about that? Or one might think you are toting as a great deal something that is not even a 1% improvement over the worst ebook firmware ever.
I didn't notice that the page turns are "much faster". I will take your word for it though. The clock is a "major improvement"? Skipping the weird "Read" button? I think it's nothing compared to things that must have been done, but were not done. Those things have to do with improving the
ebook reading experience.
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Originally Posted by superhero
There is definitely room for improvements. As others have mentioned I would like to see improvements made to side loaded content, ability to go to a specific page, etc. This is a great step in the right direction.
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I think it's a very
small step in the right direction.
If PDF still reflow only (which makes most documents prepared for the Sony Reader and Kindle mostly unreadable)? Where are the navigation improvements? Where is the History? If you jump ahead via a hyperlink, how do you get back? Or do you have to bookmark every page before jumping a hyperlink or going to another chapter?
Try going to page 500 in a 600-page book without a table of contents! Do you notice any way to jump 10,20,50% of the book?
With this
total crap of a firmware one might think that during the "release preparation process" the development was only focused on the B&N store interface, and the software developers, whoever they are, had never seen ebook readers made by other manufacturers before setting off to develop their own.
About the only redeeming qualities of this device are relatively good hardware design and Android, which makes us hope that one day someone will undertake an effort to port
FBreaderJ for Android to use the nook's eInk display.