PRS505 Firmware update: epub, DE, and reflow -- oh my!

[rhadin]

Originally Posted by rhadin

the process to delete a book from the Reader without using your computer requires a confirmation. The confirmation requires that you use your finger to touch an icon in the middle of the Reader screen. Voila -- touchscreen capability.

It has been pointed out to me privately that I am wrong about the touchscreen capability. What may have occurred is that when I went to delete a book from my 505, I may well have unknowingly pressed the bookmark button before pressing the icon on the screen and thus deluded myself. (Can I chalk this up to my old age? )

I apologize if I mislead anyone; it was unintentional. I really did think I happened on something significant.

[rhadin]

Originally Posted by Hadrien

There's no touch screen capability. It says "press mark", which is the button to mark a page.

Thanks, Hadrien. Please see my apology above.

[Peto]

Originally Posted by NatCh

Otherwise known as "FUBAR" right?

Exactly

[Peto]

No apologies required, man

[JSWolf]

When updating to the new firmware, do you lose any of the collections, content, last read page indicators, and/or bookmarks?

If not, I plan on upgrading later on this weekend after I do some sorting out of the hacks.

[Taylor514ce]

JSWOLF: not that I saw. Everything appeared fine, except under Utilities there is now a Delete. I haven't tested ePub or PDF yet.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Taylor514ce

JSWOLF: not that I saw. Everything appeared fine, except under Utilities there is now a Delete. I haven't tested ePub or PDF yet.

Thanks much! I'll be working on some hacks this weekend and see how I do. After the firmware update of course.

[dordale]

Everything went well for me, except of course I lost my clock, icons, and same size menu fonts.

Looking forward to updated hacks! Thanks JSWolf!!!

dordale

[Catire]

Originally Posted by methlp

Hey all,

All of this talk about the new firmware has me bummed, because the screen got all whacked out on my PRS-500. But the thought of PDF reflow, really has me a little excited because I have an insanely large collection of technical books on PDF, that were horrible reading on my old 500.

I was wondering if any of you guys would be able to snap a few pics of the PDF reflow working on some 8 1/2 x 11 or A4 sized PDFs, and the difference from start to magnified. And possibly some pics in landscape mode.

That would really help me decide if I should take the plunge again and buy a new 505.

Give me a PDF you'd like to see a screen of and I'll try to do it for you.

Make sure it's a pdf you can share, you know without any copyright and whatnot

[soilwork]

Originally Posted by methlp

Hey all,

All of this talk about the new firmware has me bummed, because the screen got all whacked out on my PRS-500. But the thought of PDF reflow, really has me a little excited because I have an insanely large collection of technical books on PDF, that were horrible reading on my old 500.

I was wondering if any of you guys would be able to snap a few pics of the PDF reflow working on some 8 1/2 x 11 or A4 sized PDFs, and the difference from start to magnified. And possibly some pics in landscape mode.

That would really help me decide if I should take the plunge again and buy a new 505.

I posted some photos to another thread. This may be of help.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...38&postcount=9

[ibby]

Originally Posted by Jim Lester

Any other technical questions , fire away.

I have a few unprotected PDFs which seem to flow very poorly (text out of order, odd line breaks, etc.).

Is there anything I can do to change the text flow of a PDF - in Acrobat maybe?

Thanks!

[jerryleejr]

Anyone tried an Epub DRM book yet?? Guess I should have asked this before buying one. I just couldnt help it the timing was just perfect the firmware release, BOB sending me a coupon all the same Day!

JJ

[laborg]

Has someone tried pdf files, which crash the cybook, on the prs 505? Is the sony reader able to display pdfs without crashing all the time? If so I would sell my Cybook and turn to Sony...

[dasoulseeker]

Originally Posted by flamaest

I wonder if Sony can produce a FW update for the 500 which just includes the delete and PDF reflow features? Gosh, I really don't care about Epub stuff.

Igorski, I also wonder if the PDF reflow feature can be extracted from the new firmware and added to the hackbuilder for the 500?

I know the Epub stuff needs more memory, but could the PDF reflow function run on the 500?

Fabian.

Seconded :[

[MickeyC]

Originally Posted by laborg

Has someone tried pdf files, which crash the cybook, on the prs 505? Is the sony reader able to display pdfs without crashing all the time? If so I would sell my Cybook and turn to Sony...

Yeah, I had downloaded 'The Future of the Internet' by Jonathan Zittrain which was a free PDF but, although I was able to move it into my Sony eBook Library, I couldn't move it onto my 505. But, as soon as I downloaded and installed the Firmware update, I was able to move it to the Reader where it opens and reads fine.