Why aren't PocketBook devices more popular?

[Carolus]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

Go to the Kobo website. Log in to your account; then click My Account on the upper right corner of the page, select My Books -> Books. You should see your purchased ebooks now. Click on the three dots beneath a cover and select Download. If the book has DRM, you'll get an .acsm file; if the book has no DRM, you'll get an epub.

Many thanks Sirtel, finally I got my books!

[Mr Avid]

Originally Posted by graycyn

This doesn't sound right. I have the Pocketbook Era, 64GB version, and I can flip my device to my left hand and my button orientation works the same as in my right hand: top button pages forward, bottom button pages back.

Huh, I just tested it again and you are right. That does work. I am not sure why it didn't work before. Either it was an issue that was fixed with an update or I just tested it wrong.

I did have to disable inkview_translates_buttons to get it to work in koreader.

Thanks for pointing that out!

[the4anoni]

Pocketbook quality is really poor.
As owner of Touch HD 2:
- Software updates support was ended really soon
- poor quality microSD card as internal storage is just pure evil and anti-consumer move. On top of that if you want to revive YOUR device you need to do some hacking with random forum threads or pay Pocketbook Russia to send you new image...

I also had encountered other miscellaneous bugs with PB software (not huge deal, but this isn't how polished product looks like).

[Ruff_d]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

What? That's a dealbreaker right there!

Of course they flip. I've just tested it again some minutes ago. Only on KOReader they don't. But that is not an official Pocketbook app.

EDIT: Oh I see, other wrote it too

[Mr Avid]

Originally Posted by Ruff_d

Of course they flip. I've just tested it again some minutes ago. Only on KOReader they don't.

I was able to get them to flip in koreader by disabling inkview_translates_buttons for my model.

[Ruff_d]

Originally Posted by Mr Avid

I was able to get them to flip in koreader by disabling inkview_translates_buttons for my model.

Oh nice, how can I disable it?


EDIT: It works! Thanks

For everyone who wants to fix it:
Connect your Pocketbook to your Computer and open the following file:
koreader/frontend/device/pocketbook
/device.lua

Search there for your device (for me it was the era color) and the line:
inkview_translates_buttons
change from true to false
Afterwards reboot KOReader. And BÄM rotation works with the buttons as intended .

[DJUNGELSKOG]

Originally Posted by the4anoni

- poor quality microSD card as internal storage is just pure evil and anti-consumer move. On top of that if you want to revive YOUR device you need to do some hacking with random forum threads or pay Pocketbook Russia to send you new image...

^^^ this. I’ve had this problem with my old Pocketbook as well. It’s internal storage has died, and the company had the audacity of asking it’s customers to pay for the privilege of repairing their own devices!!
I’ve managed to fix mine by following the instructions on the aforementioned forums with the help of Google Translate.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

What? That's a dealbreaker right there!

Not at all. Not having button a highly desirable feature.

[JSWolf]

The deal-breaker for a a lot of Kobo uses is not being able to up the weight of side loaded fonts.

[Ruff_d]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

The deal-breaker for a a lot of Kobo uses is not being able to up the weight of side loaded fonts.

You can do that with KOReader. And in the next months, PB is releasing a complete new Reader App (at least that's what a PB spokesperson said on a different board).

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by Ruff_d

You can do that with KOReader. And in the next months, PB is releasing a complete new Reader App (at least that's what a PB spokesperson said on a different board).

Not everyone wants to use KOReader, because it has its flaws.

I do hope there will be a weight adjustment option in the stock reader.

[the4anoni]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

Not everyone wants to use KOReader, because it has its flaws.

I do hope there will be a weight adjustment option in the stock reader.

+1 to this, KoReader feels slow and heavy on battery. That's why most time I am using stock Pocketbook app.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Ruff_d

You can do that with KOReader. And in the next months, PB is releasing a complete new Reader App (at least that's what a PB spokesperson said on a different board).

I would not be buying a Pocketbook to use with KOReader. I would want it to use with RMSDK. But I also want the font-weight to be adjustable for side-loaded fonts.

[Carolus]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

Go to the Kobo website. Log in to your account; then click My Account on the upper right corner of the page, select My Books -> Books. You should see your purchased ebooks now. Click on the three dots beneath a cover and select Download. If the book has DRM, you'll get an .acsm file; if the book has no DRM, you'll get an epub.

Hi and thanks again for all of your valuable advice. It all worked fine to transfer my Kobo books to my new Era but now I can't do the same with a few Kindle and Google books I have.

- With the Kindle ones I can't find their files (again!) to download them to whichever program may convert them.
I found a YouTube video with someone explaining this but she got the files through a link on her Kindle app library page which is missing on mine. My library menu only contains All items, Downloaded items, Documents, Collections whereas hers also contains Archived items, which leads her to the downloadable book files. Is it a question of updating my Kindle app, or is it hers that are old (the video is 11 y. o.)?

- With the googles when I try to download them (most of them, the very old books I was able to download as pdf's) I get the message "e_google_device_limit_reached". I contacted GooglePlay help through ther chatline and was attended to by what totally read like an AI, which promised to contact their specialists, who would email me - they haven't.

I hope some of you guys can help me with this one again. Many thanks in advance.

[dmalinovsky]

Originally Posted by Carolus

- With the Kindle ones I can't find their files (again!) to download them to whichever program may convert them.

You have to download Kindle books you've bought via Amazon's web site.
Log into Amazon web, go to your account, Content and Devices, Books, click on the "More Actions" for the book you want and select "Download and Install Over USB". That will download the ebook in AZW3 format which you can then import into Calibre to strip DRM and convert to another format for a non-Amazon ereader or PC program to open and read like EPUB. Unfortunately, you have to do it for every book one by one.

As for the Google books, I don't use them and can't help.