This post did a nice job listing reasons, so I'll just elaborate on a few of them.
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Originally Posted by Xochipilli2012
I don't love everything about the LBook software, but it edges out Astak in a few key areas--the menus are cleaner and easier to read.
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The lBook menus have a more polished look than Astak and are easier to read. I liked the old lBook (11/09) design better than the new one, but the new one better than Astak's. No offense intended, but yours tend to be tiny and stark.
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The LBook software allows one to delete, copy, or move books on board. This is huge. Astak does not.
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This is huge for me too. I have my books organized now so that unread books go on my card. If I like the book enough to keep it on my reader, I move it to the reader after I've read it and then delete the copy on the card. This makes it super easy to find a new unread book while still having them organized and is much more convenient than having to plug it into my computer to manage files.
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The system font choice for the LBook not only affects the non-CoolReader and non-ADE book formats, but the PocketPro's menus themselves.
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Overall, the user-experience with the LBook firmware seems more "pleasant" and "intuitive".
Anyhow Robert, I recommend you give it a try so that you can communicate your findings directly to the evil PM rather than relying on 2nd hand accounts. I dare say, you might have access to more than one PP at a time so you could make comparisons side-by-side.
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I like the way that the file type is listed just underneath each book in the bookshelf and that the author name appears under the book for some formats. I'd like it if all of the formats in the bookshelf display like the fb2.
Until your latest update, lBook offered CoolReader3 software, which I like much better than CoolReader2. The downside was that lBook forgot to translate the CoolReader menus into English, but that's been fixed now.
I've gotten the impression that lBook has its own programmer(s) making modifications, which takes out your whole issue with time zones and Chinese.