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Old 09-18-2009, 12:15 PM   #76
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Not only significantly faster than any competitive back button, but available in designer colors and supporting more than 20 languages! With ADE support! You will not find a better back button in a lifetime of searching.



I say this with a deep affection and not out of hostility or mean-spiritedness. From everything I've seen, I really like Robertb. He reminds me of a former boss who spoke and crafted our sales and marketing pitches in a very similar vein!

By the way -- in all seriousness -- I think that this message thread just saved me from possibly serious injury! I was about to leave my desk to use the men's room when I saw the message and decided to add my obnoxious two cents. While I was typing, there was a thundering crash from the men's room. The large wall mirror there had fallen right off the wall, sending broken glass everywhere. Had I been in there, I think I would've almost certainly been hurt!


DUDE!! Your LIFE was saved by that BACK BUTTON!!!
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Old 09-18-2009, 12:17 PM   #77
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DUDE!! Your LIFE was saved by that BACK BUTTON!!!
And that was just the hypthetical back button. Think of the good it will do humanity once it actually exists.
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Old 09-18-2009, 12:18 PM   #78
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I can't wait for the back button to kill DRM.
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Old 09-18-2009, 12:25 PM   #80
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Old 09-18-2009, 12:34 PM   #81
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He is looking for a back button which I believe he knows is not yet available.
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It actually does have a "back button" of a sort. It's the small, left half of the large, round "Menu" button on the bottom right side. It saved me aggravation. When I first used my PP I [unwisely] loaded an ePub version of The Tale of Two Cities and after reading a while I tried going through the font sizes. When I got to the largest size it seemed to lock up. The little green light that shows when it's using battery was flashing wildly so after awhile I started frantically pushing buttons, trying to make it stop. Nothing helped until I started hitting the "back button." It seemed to work like the "undo" in Firefox. After I hit it about ten times in a row it returned me to the menu I was in before I loaded that file. No other ePub file has done that. The rest of them change fonts quickly and reliably, so I'm going to delete that file and reload it.
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Old 09-18-2009, 12:54 PM   #82
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So if the firmware ever gets to supporting hyperlinks, will there also be a back button? It sounds to me like the firmware was not well thought out/tested.

And the back button will be so powerful, it'll make my 505 go back.
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Old 09-18-2009, 01:07 PM   #83
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Perhaps it will be like with Mobi files, where you press the Menu, then select 9 for Back.
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Old 09-18-2009, 01:18 PM   #84
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Perhaps it will be like with Mobi files, where you press the Menu, then select 9 for Back.

There were some "interesting" UI/Navigation/Operation things like that in the Astak Pocket Pro....one of the 'niggly' things that bugged me about it.

I hate to have to remember weird combination's of keys or key press and hold and other such stuff. I want my UI/Operation to be simple and intuitive.
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There were some "interesting" UI/Navigation/Operation things like that in the Astak Pocket Pro....one of the 'niggly' things that bugged me about it.

I hate to have to remember weird combination's of keys or key press and hold and other such stuff. I want my UI/Operation to be simple and intuitive.
Totally agree.
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It actually does have a "back button" of a sort. It's the small, left half of the large, round "Menu" button on the bottom right side. It saved me aggravation. When I first used my PP I [unwisely] loaded an ePub version of The Tale of Two Cities and after reading a while I tried going through the font sizes. When I got to the largest size it seemed to lock up. The little green light that shows when it's using battery was flashing wildly so after awhile I started frantically pushing buttons, trying to make it stop. Nothing helped until I started hitting the "back button." It seemed to work like the "undo" in Firefox. After I hit it about ten times in a row it returned me to the menu I was in before I loaded that file. No other ePub file has done that. The rest of them change fonts quickly and reliably, so I'm going to delete that file and reload it.
Yes, it does have that kind of back button. The button you describe is the exit button. It does backup through the menus, back out (exit) a book and backup through the pages of the library browser. it will even back up through the contents if you have a toc with multiple levels. It will also cancel invoking the menu or a change to the image settings and back out of a zip file. It is the ultimate 'get me out of here' button and can seemingly solve some lockups by canceling the operation. However, it will not back up from a jump to a link you have made inside a book.

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Yes, it does have that kind of back button. The button you describe is the exit button. It does backup through the menus, back out (exit) a book and backup through the pages of the library browser. it will even back up through the contents if you have a toc with multiple levels. It will also cancel invoking the menu or a change to the image settings and back out of a zip file. It is the ultimate 'get me out of here' button and can seemingly solve some lockups by canceling the operation. However, it will not back up from a jump to a link you have made inside a book.

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makes Reading Discworld books a real problem.
For now you can remember the page number and to a goto page to return. That function was supposed to remember the page for you, but it doesn't yet.

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For now you can remember the page number and to a goto page to return. That function was supposed to remember the page for you, but it doesn't yet.

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So if the firmware ever gets to supporting hyperlinks, will there also be a back button? It sounds to me like the firmware was not well thought out/tested.

And the back button will be so powerful, it'll make my 505 go back.
Sometimes. I really think you WANT to like the Pocket Pro.
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