Thread: Questions before I jump to Lbook firmware
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Old 05-02-2010, 12:36 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by polly View Post
Astak maintains a library of older firmware at http://www.astak.com/downloadcenter.asp. The oldest one I saw there was from December.

You can delete files using the LBook firmware and PDFs work with no problem.

ADE is compatible with LBook and the files put on your reader for ADE are not in the part of the storage that is flashed with firmware.

The first English language menus version of LBook firmware that I saw was 20 April 2010. I don't have the link right at hand, but if you look down the forum page, you'll find the links in the discussions about the firmware. You should know that these versions are beta and may have bugs in them, depending on what you want to do. My reader has been rock solid reading ePubs and fb2 formats, but I have the older firmware on my card, just in case I find a bug while I'm traveling.

Overall, I find the version of LBook that I'm using to be fast and solid. I'm not having any problems with battery life.

These readers are really easy to flash, so I'd say try it for a few days and see if you like it. If it doesn't suit you, you can always go back to the Astak version. It's not really much of a leap to try it, since flashing the firmware does nothing to the files on your reader and takes all of three minutes to complete.
I have been using the V 2.02UK.100201 version with no charge problem. Read a ADE edition bought at MyEZRead
PDF and EPUB are just about the only format I read (I convert others with Calibre and cleanup with Sigil).
Having a up-to-date Lbook instruction manual would help immensely.
Mostly, it has been poke and hope with features that work different from the ASTAK FW.
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