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I should have seperated those sentences. I did not mean, that 22 seconds ist a fast bootuptime, though it is fast compared to the iLiad (45 seconds), but rather fast in its general operation. And that is with e-ink in mind.
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I personally have changed by settings so it doesn't auto power off until 1 hour of inactivity. If I know that I'm not going to read within the next hour I power it off to save the batteries. I don't mind waiting the 22s the next time I read though. I've been reading this way for the last 12 days without a recharge and the battery is still showing 40%. It's a personal choice. You can have 0 boot time and 5 days of battery life or live with the 22s boot time and get greater then 2 weeks of battery life. |
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If it takes so much processing before the page is turned then I wonder why it doesn't do all this processing immediately after turning the previous page. Then it would be ready to just redraw the page when the user presses the next-button. Also, if nothing happens for 500 ms after pressing the button then you really don't know if it registered the press or not. I've seen this many times in the various Reader and Iliad videos on the net. The user presses the next-button, then waits for a few seconds before realizing it isn't doing anything and then presses the button again. Or presses the button, waiting for half a second, then probably thinking that it didn't register the press and pressing again just when it starts to do the eink page-flip-dance. An obvious solution to this is to make the button make a sound immediately when the press is registered, but then that would be somewhat annoying (especially to other people in the room). Last edited by msundman; 11-22-2007 at 11:49 AM. |
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Or you could bring a USB-battery to charge from. I can charge my phone and my Palm T5 from USB so I need an USB-charger anyway when travelling. Nowadays I always carry a USB-battery in my bag.
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Maybe the time before the flashing is not processor time but setup time in the display. Otherwise your suggestion for optimization should work. |
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*actually, such an obvious thing could hardly be called mine as such |
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One of the things I hate really much about p-books is that it's very easy to lose track of where you are. (This is probably the main reason why I don't buy p-books anymore, I just hate spending so much time trying to figure out where I was (e.g. before I fell asleep). Oh, and the fact that it's so cumbersome to flip the page of (or even to just read from) a p-book with one hand.) Actually page numbers are quite bad. I've come to love the percentage display of QReader. (E.g., I'm currently "59,2%" through The Player of Games.) Not only does it give a better picture of how far along a book I am, but it also doesn't change when I switch font size, margins or page orientation. It does have one limitation, though: if there are more than 1000 pages you either have to use 2 decimals or live with the percentage sometimes not changing when you flip the page (e.g., in a book with 2000 pages a percentage with one decimal would only change at every second page change). Last edited by msundman; 11-22-2007 at 12:49 PM. |
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I would like to see both. The percentage bar and pagenumbers. Knowing pagenumbers makes it easier to jump to specific point in a book. Although reflowable formats would need some sort of smarter pagenumbering, which is consistent for anyfont and screensize. I guess a decimal with high precision would suffice, but its not intuitive to a user. Pagenumbers should also give you some indication of the size of the book. |
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Also, I find percentage much more intuitive than page numbers for e-books, webpages, and in general everything that doesn't have a fixed page size. If there is a "jump to"-command in an e-book reader, I want it to use percentage. Quote:
A letter count might be even better, once you get used to it. A word count is somewhat dependent on the language (e.g., a book in finnish have far fewer words than the same book in swedish or english). Although a letter count is also somewhat dependent on the language, it'd still give a more precise picture of how long the book is. Or you could combine them, e.g. "101k / 564k" to indicate that Ender's Game has ~101,000 words and ~564,000 characters. |
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I do not know how it works but it is perfectly possible that the setup has to be done just before the change. So it might not be possible to do it.
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