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Originally Posted by graypal
Hi everyone, happy christmas.
I bought an opus just before Christmas and I am very happy with it. No freezes at all, and its nice and easy to use.
I am a bit uncertain to upgrade the firmware to the new one as mine is working well (its the 1.9 version, so its not that old). I can see by reading the threads on here that its been a major improvement to a lot of people with older firmware, but would it make much difference to mine?
Another thing is that I do not know wether to change to the 1.5 or 2.0 versions. I have not bought many books yet because I have only just got my opus, and the ones that I have already got were converted easily with calibre (great program). I am more used to using mobi files because I used to use them on my PDA before.
The only things I miss are the RSS feeds and the dictionary. I would like to know how you would look up a word on the opus? With a PDA you just click on the word and the dictionary automatically looks up the word. On the opus would I have to close the book and open a dictionary?
Also, do epub books look different/better on an opus than mobi books, or are they the same? I think I could just put on the 1.5 and then the 2.0 firmware but I am a bit scared of it going wrong, and at the moment I am thinking "if it ain't broke don't fix it" so I was wondering if anyone has actually done it and if it is worth it.
Thanks for all the help.
Gray.
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Whatever you do DO NOT upgrade to the new 2.0 firmware. I was exactly in your position - I had version 1.9 and upgraded because of occasional lockups. Big mistake. The new firmware is buggy. The most annoying issue is that after the upgrade the reader will no longer be able to read any of the metadata embedded in an epub which means your library page will end up listing your titles by their filename, which looks terrible if your are using Calibre.
Long story short, stay where you are. I wish I had!