ebookwise 1150 library disappeared on sm card insertion?

[bart_simpson]

Actually it is "filament ETI-2" but I think it is the same?

I got one of these and found its 8MB of internal storage full of books I might actually read. I put one unencrypted imp book on a 128MB smartmedia card just to test and now I only have the one book?! Since I've read it is bad for these things to do a lot of insertion/removal of smart cards, I'm wondering if there is no way to switch back to the internal library w/o removing the card?

AFAIK, this thing is on the latest fw 4.0.

Alas, it also appears I have no dictionary. Is the original rhd that came with it backed up somewhere in imp format? I can't find it on archive.

[250 Coupe]

The 1150 memory situation is an either/or kind of thing. It can access either the internal memory OR the SM card. It cannot use both at the same time. It's kind of annoying as the 1150 came with a dictionary in internal memory. I never did put much effort into moving the dictionary onto a card so I don't know if it will work.
The issue with inserting the card with power on has to do with the read/write cache technique. It's kind of slow on reads and writes, if you pull the card out or insert it at the wrong time, it will corrupt the card. I think you can reformat it for reuse but you will lose all content and progress on that card.
Also, it was implied that SmartMedia cards are not terribly robust. They are said to have a higher failure rate than other types of memory cards but I do wonder if this is due to the read write cache thing. I don't think I've ever had one fail but then it's been many years and I just keep reading the 45 or so books on the 1150.

Michael

[bart_simpson]

Originally Posted by 250 Coupe

The 1150 memory situation is an either/or kind of thing. It can access either the internal memory OR the SM card. It cannot use both at the same time.

Michael

I figured it was to keep people from copying books, as if DRM weren't enough....


Compared to the REB 1100 and the original Rocket eBook, the battery life is not very good. Maybe it is still indexing the huge Webster's 1913 dictionary I have on the card, but a brand new lipo pack I built myself for the REB1100 seems to run down in just a few days while it lasts so crazy long in the REB1100 that I wasn't even bothering to measure.

What is the final library manager solution? As I understand it GEB Librarian needs a registration code and you can't buy it anymore. Rocket Librarian probably won't work. I have a demo of "REB Librarian" (from the big Brazillian ebooks archive) but it later became free? impserve maybe? I mostly will connect with USB to a windows xp laptop.

I'm getting the impression that it is near impossible to update the firmware as it is available noplace and a defunct blog I read outlines some insanely complicated procedure but for the REB1200.... I'm on 4.0, and I can't even find a changelog for the final(?) 4.2

I also can't believe filament added all this fancy UI stuff but took away the ability to set a shortcut to turn the page: there's a shortcut for everthing BUT turn the page! So if the buttons fail, the device is useless. Maybe I'm wrong about this and it is just very well hidden?

I might not use this device much after I'm done reading all the lost eBooks it came with. REB1100 is better.