PRSCustomizer: Customize and personalize your PRS505 Reader

[Peto]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

The old delete for the 500 was useless. It hung the 500 if you tried to delete any content in a collection. If we have code to do things to content then it needs to take into account collections or it's just useless.

It is sure better if it includes collections, but it is only useless if you exclusively work with collections. In my case, I seldom use collections, so it would be mostly useful. Wether this partial fix would be worth the time to the developer is up to him. I would be grateful, as I am for the delete function that doesn't work with collections.

[brycej]

Would it be possible to add an option to set the following variable in the environment section of the kconfig.xml file?

<variable name="bbebJustification" value="false" />

This would turn off the automatic right justification on the reader.

[Valloric]

Originally Posted by brycej

Would it be possible to add an option to set the following variable in the environment section of the kconfig.xml file?

<variable name="bbebJustification" value="false" />

This would turn off the automatic right justification on the reader.

You're kidding me! We can disable right justification? Jeff, this is most interesting. I too would really like to see this.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Peto

It is sure better if it includes collections, but it is only useless if you exclusively work with collections. In my case, I seldom use collections, so it would be mostly useful. Wether this partial fix would be worth the time to the developer is up to him. I would be grateful, as I am for the delete function that doesn't work with collections.

Imagine this scene...

You re away from home with your 500. You decide to delete a book using the delete a book hack. You try to delete this book only to find that you've accidentally deleted a book that was part of a collection. Your 500 now needs a reset. You don't have a pin or paperclip or anything on you to fit in the hole to push the reset button. Now you finally find a shop to purchase something to push the reset button with. You find that the collection that book was in is no longer able to be navigated to due to the deletion. So until you can get back to the computer to sort things out, you are left with other books unable to be read and you may also look your last page read and even any bookmarks.

Now I don't know exactly what will happen on a 500 when you do delete a book that's in a collection so some of what I put is just a guess based on the usage of my 505. But, I did try this on my 505 and found that I had to hit the reset button, delete the collection, and recreate it.

[JeffElkins]

Originally Posted by brycej

Would it be possible to add an option to set the following variable in the environment section of the kconfig.xml file?

<variable name="bbebJustification" value="false" />

This would turn off the automatic right justification on the reader.

I'll give it a try. Thanks for the suggestion!

[Peto]

Sure, I understand, but that goes with collections. For those of us that don't use them the problem is non existant.

Anyway, deleting a book needs various steps, select the book, utilities, delete and confirm. Seems hard to do all this by mistake in the wrong book, in the wrong place, at the wrong moment. It would be far easier to just drop it and nobody is asking for a string to tie the Reader to the wrist.

There may be a way around it though. Sort of a compromise. Suppose you name the collection books starting with a code (Aubrey-Maturin books by Patrick O'Brian would start with AM1-Master & Commander, AM2-Post Captain...), so you have all your collections together in the title index and you can freely delete them. It is not exactly the same, but you have all your collection books bunched up together and in the right order. If you want your collections to be after all the independent books, just add zz to the code (ZZAM1-Master & Commander). All your collections will be behind your independent books and in good order. I know it is not the same, it is a compromise.

On the other hand, I still don't know if the reader's new firmware can delete collection books properly on it's own, which would fix the problem straight away.

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Imagine this scene...

You re away from home with your 500. You decide to delete a book using the delete a book hack. You try to delete this book only to find that you've accidentally deleted a book that was part of a collection. Your 500 now needs a reset. You don't have a pin or paperclip or anything on you to fit in the hole to push the reset button. Now you finally find a shop to purchase something to push the reset button with. You find that the collection that book was in is no longer able to be navigated to due to the deletion. So until you can get back to the computer to sort things out, you are left with other books unable to be read and you may also look your last page read and even any bookmarks.

Now I don't know exactly what will happen on a 500 when you do delete a book that's in a collection so some of what I put is just a guess based on the usage of my 505. But, I did try this on my 505 and found that I had to hit the reset button, delete the collection, and recreate it.

[JeffElkins]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Now I don't know exactly what will happen on a 500 when you do delete a book that's in a collection

Assuming you meant 505, you can delete books in a collection w/o issues...well, just one. With this firmware I deleted all the books in a collection and the empty collection stayed on the reader until I deleted it via the computer.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by JeffElkins

Assuming you meant 505, you can delete books in a collection w/o issues...well, just one. With this firmware I deleted all the books in a collection and the empty collection stayed on the reader until I deleted it via the computer.

With the new firmware, the 505 can delete books from collections. I've not yet deleted the last book in a collection, so I have no idea if the collection stays or not. But my guess is that you'd end up with an empty collection.

[JeffElkins]

Any PowerPC Mac users using PRSCustomizer?

[JSWolf]

Are there any PowerPC MAC users left?

[JeffElkins]

New version 0.07

Changes:

Localization is now more granular. You can choose just
one language if you wish.


Joystick up/down history navigation
Turn off right justification for BBeB books
Disable number keys when reading

Versions are provided for:

Windows 2000,XP,Vista
Mac OS X (X86)
Linux

[JeffElkins]

Originally Posted by Valloric

You're kidding me! We can disable right justification? Jeff, this is most interesting. I too would really like to see this.

You should check out the file prsfiles/kconfig. It's got font options you might like to study. In particular accepted font names, and the expected path.

[brycej]

Originally Posted by JeffElkins

New version 0.07

Changes:

Localization is now more granular. You can choose just
one language if you wish.


Joystick up/down history navigation
Turn off right justification for BBeB books
Disable number keys when reading

Versions are provided for:

Windows 2000,XP,Vista
Mac OS X (X86)
Linux

Wow! That was super fast!

[JeffElkins]

Originally Posted by brycej

Wow! That was super fast!

Nice hack you pointed out, thanks again.

[brycej]

igorsk is the one who pointed it out in this post.

I just brought it to your attention.

Cheers.