Cybook Gen3 pricing - "standard practice", says Bookeen - Page 4

JSWolf · 03-23-2008, 09:03 AM

If you were to pay the US price for the deluxe package, you'd be paying about 624SGD. This is where the pricing goes wrong (IMHO).

Darqref · 03-24-2008, 02:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Halk

It's one of these mysterious things we'll never find out. Sometimes you can click on an item in a drop down list and it can select something else, due to the delay between releasing the mouse button, and the list disappearing. I've had it happen at work where we're using a terminal input into a windows system - i.e. there's a lag between doing something and the screen updating.

It could be the mouse software too. I've got a consistent problem with my mouse. Occasionally, two or three times an hour, I'll click somewhere on my screen and the pointer will jump vertically, and THEN activate the click. Somehow the actual pointer gets disconnected from where the wheel puts it, and the click command resets it. I've had lots of strange things get selected, especially when I'm grabbing books to put on hold from our local library - the pointer jumps up and grabs a different book from the list. Unless I notice it, I end up with a strange book waiting for me.

GeoffC · 03-24-2008, 05:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Darqref

It could be the mouse software too. I've got a consistent problem with my mouse. Occasionally, two or three times an hour, I'll click somewhere on my screen and the pointer will jump vertically, and THEN activate the click. Somehow the actual pointer gets disconnected from where the wheel puts it, and the click command resets it.

I have the same problem . Though often the cursor ' jumps ' without any help from me !

zelda_pinwheel · 03-24-2008, 10:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Darqref

It could be the mouse software too. I've got a consistent problem with my mouse. Occasionally, two or three times an hour, I'll click somewhere on my screen and the pointer will jump vertically, and THEN activate the click. Somehow the actual pointer gets disconnected from where the wheel puts it, and the click command resets it. I've had lots of strange things get selected, especially when I'm grabbing books to put on hold from our local library - the pointer jumps up and grabs a different book from the list. Unless I notice it, I end up with a strange book waiting for me.

i've noticed this with my optical mouse... i think maybe some dust gets in the red eye sensor and reflects the pointer somewhere different. my pointer also sometimes will randomly jump to the other side of the screen, but this never happened before when i had a trackball. usually i can fix it by blowing on the sensor to remove any theoretical dust...

JSWolf · 03-24-2008, 10:07 AM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

i've noticed this with my optical mouse... i think maybe some dust gets in the red eye sensor and reflects the pointer somewhere different. my pointer also sometimes will randomly jump to the other side of the screen, but this never happened before when i had a trackball. usually i can fix it by blowing on the sensor to remove any theoretical dust...

Does your mouse pad have any black on it? if so, the optical sesor might be skipping as you go over the black bits.

zelda_pinwheel · 03-24-2008, 10:24 AM

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Originally Posted by JSWolf

Does your mouse pad have any black on it? if so, the optical sesor might be skipping as you go over the black bits.

aha ! that's good to know. that could be the case now, as i had to start using a mousepad when i got my new desk (for some reason, it had a hard time following on this color, which is a medium to light wood color), and the one i had lying around has a black and white photo screened on it. however it happened on my old desk as well, with no mousepad at all, and that desk was a very light (almost white) wood color. so i still think dust refracting the angle of the laser (or whatever it is...) might be at least part of the problem. maybe i should find a new mousepad though, with no black in it....

Zabuton · 03-27-2008, 04:55 AM

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Originally Posted by GeoffC

I have the same problem . Though often the cursor ' jumps ' without any help from me !

That would be a USB mouse... It does that when the CPU is too busy or some other USB devices decides to get busy..

I still prefer PS/2 mouses, but laptops don't support PS/2

HarryT · 03-27-2008, 05:14 AM

I have a laptop in which the mouse pointer v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y drifts to the left if you leave it alone. That's VERY annoying. I must try replacing the mouse; presumably that's where the problem lies. It's an optical mouse.

tompe · 03-27-2008, 05:20 AM

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Originally Posted by HarryT

I have a laptop in which the mouse pointer v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y drifts to the left if you leave it alone. That's VERY annoying. I must try replacing the mouse; presumably that's where the problem lies. It's an optical mouse.

You should google on that because I seem to remember it is a common problem. I do not think it is the mouse. For Dell computers there are theories that it is the "stick pointer" that can cause the problem.

HarryT · 03-27-2008, 05:36 AM

Thanks, I'll try doing that. It's a Sony laptop which has a "touch pad", but I'm using a USB Microsoft optical mouse with it. My Dell desktop machine, on which I'm using the same model of mouse, doesn't have the problem.

KLausPetersen · 03-27-2008, 06:31 AM

I had the same problem a few years ago with a dell laptop and the problem was the touchpad.

HarryT · 03-27-2008, 06:43 AM

Were you able to fix it?

KLausPetersen · 03-27-2008, 11:22 AM

As far as I remember it was a known hardware issue with that model und I just disabled the touchpad (bios or Windows System manager), because I almost always use an external mouse anyway.

Soon afterwards I got a new IBM laptop, so I didn't bother to pay money for a repair of the old laptop.

Zabuton · 03-28-2008, 05:15 AM

Some of the older generations ThinkPads T20/T40 has this problem with the trackpoint (not touchpad). A software upgrade resolved this. I have no idea if this is due to hardware or software to start with.

Ramen · 03-29-2008, 11:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Zabuton

LOL... how true. But I am apologising for my original, somewhat, harsh statement.

Sadly, EU currency strength today makes it pretty expensive to buy Cybook. I did a rough estimate of the costs, and found out it cost more than SGD700+ vs SGD500+ to purchase a Sony Reader from US(both include shipping).

I originally wanted to buy a Cybook when it came out, hence my coming to this forum. I live in Switzerland and we have a VAT of roughly 8% with no ebook reader import taxes that I know of.

At that time, 1$ was 1.1CHF. The Cybook costs 490CHF with 65CHF shipping from France to Switzerland... In dollars that would be 410$ w/o VAT or shipping. With the current exchange rate, that would be more than 450$ w/o VAT or shipping. The first price is 14%, the second is 28% above US prices. The price seemed to be a mean of the EUR and $ prices.

Needless to say, Bookeen did not reply to email.

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03-23-2008, 09:03 AM	#46
JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 79,756 Karma: 145864619 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	If you were to pay the US price for the deluxe package, you'd be paying about 624SGD. This is where the pricing goes wrong (IMHO).

03-27-2008, 05:14 AM	#53
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,544 Karma: 93383099 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	I have a laptop in which the mouse pointer v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y drifts to the left if you leave it alone. That's VERY annoying. I must try replacing the mouse; presumably that's where the problem lies. It's an optical mouse.

03-27-2008, 05:36 AM	#55
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,544 Karma: 93383099 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	Thanks, I'll try doing that. It's a Sony laptop which has a "touch pad", but I'm using a USB Microsoft optical mouse with it. My Dell desktop machine, on which I'm using the same model of mouse, doesn't have the problem.

03-27-2008, 06:31 AM	#56
KLausPetersen Connoisseur Posts: 51 Karma: 514 Join Date: Mar 2008 Device: Bookeen Cybook	I had the same problem a few years ago with a dell laptop and the problem was the touchpad.

03-27-2008, 06:43 AM	#57
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,544 Karma: 93383099 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	Were you able to fix it?

03-27-2008, 11:22 AM	#58
KLausPetersen Connoisseur Posts: 51 Karma: 514 Join Date: Mar 2008 Device: Bookeen Cybook	As far as I remember it was a known hardware issue with that model und I just disabled the touchpad (bios or Windows System manager), because I almost always use an external mouse anyway. Soon afterwards I got a new IBM laptop, so I didn't bother to pay money for a repair of the old laptop.

03-28-2008, 05:15 AM	#59
Zabuton Member Posts: 23 Karma: 14 Join Date: Feb 2008 Device: BB8800/Sony PRS-505	Some of the older generations ThinkPads T20/T40 has this problem with the trackpoint (not touchpad). A software upgrade resolved this. I have no idea if this is due to hardware or software to start with.