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I finished work and decided to update the firmware anyway, on the (possibly erroneus) assumption that I could reverse it by resetting the device to the factory default.
The Global refresh bug I mentioned above hasn't been fixed.
On further testing I think the number keys not working was misleading. Sometimes you have to hold them down for a while rather than just click them.
What I should have done before applying the firmware upgrade was go into an ePub book without a hard-coded font size and check the number of lines on a screen for each of the three font size settings... but I was an eager fool and forgot to do this.
However, my impression is that the three standard font sizes are now all slightly larger. This is a double-edged sword. For me, the smallest is now more readable, whereas before I found it a bit tiny, but the medium one is now a little too big.
The system font, used for the settings screens and the various dialog boxes that pop up, is definitely smaller, and I find it harder to read.
The new features are welcome and mentioned in the links above, but there's an interesting change to the Font Settings dialog. This used to have Clear, Smooth, Arial and Latin. This has now changed to Clear, Smooth, Arial and Black, but if I select Black I get a message: "No font file found under SD root directoryfont5.ttf"
This looks worth digging into, as the device is therefore using TrueType fonts, so we may be able to replace those with ones we prefer.
I've also noticed that if I press Menu when in the main menu the device goes to a blank screen reading "Screen saver status". Did it do that before?
Graham
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