Dual firmware announcement - Page 31

KLausPetersen · 10-05-2009, 06:21 AM

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Originally Posted by peterbbb

Oh well, as Fleetwood Mac said, there will be another Monday, next week.

"Another Monday ? Staay a while .... Staaaay forever."

Here is something for us monday-fans:
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/makin...of-monday.html

"... It’s okay, another Monday will come again soon. Start being positive about Mondays ..."

Snuffi · 10-05-2009, 07:59 AM

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Originally Posted by peterbbb

Ok. Slid in quietly and thought I would sneak up, silently, just so I didn't scare the upgrade away. But, I guess, I made too much noise. The upgrade has run away again.

Oh well, as Fleetwood Mac said, there will be another Monday, next week.

Ah, so that was you. I had it almost cornered, almost within reach. I silently reached out, stretched a little, a little more, now without breathing and I... then someone sneezed and it was gone..

gerraldo · 10-05-2009, 08:00 AM

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Originally Posted by HarryT

I understand that the Jinke devices have a "books I've most recently opened" pseudo-folder in their library view. That sounds like an extremely useful feature that I wish other manufacturers would adopt.

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Originally Posted by tompe

It would be very nice if when reading a book and not changing page in a long time the the cover would be shown. When you pick up the reader you will see the cover and pressing a button will take you to the correct position.

Two features I'd absolutely LOVE to see!

And it'd be nice if you see the cover of the last read book at boot-up...

gerraldo · 10-05-2009, 08:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Snuffi

Ah, so that was you. I had it almost cornered, almost within reach. I silently reached out, stretched a little, a little more, now without breathing and I... then someone sneezed and it was gone..

T'was not me... (I was the one who farted!)

K-Thom · 10-05-2009, 08:45 AM

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Ah, so that was you. I had it almost cornered, almost within reach. I silently reached out, stretched a little, a little more, now without breathing and I... then someone sneezed and it was gone..

Don't you both realize that firmware updates are a rare, endangered species?! The nerve of you hunting them down ...

Maybe Bookeen is doing the only correct thing: Preserving the update for future generations with a more sophisticated attitiude to such a delicate creature.

Poor wittle update, did those mean readers try to catch you ...?

ProfJulie · 10-05-2009, 10:04 AM

Bookeen has updated the Cybook specifications to include the following statement:

"Note: Adobe® ePUB/PDF Reader support can be available via firmware upgrade. Adobe and Mobipocket DRMs can not be supported at the same time."

This statement misrepresents the Cybook's existing capabilities. No where in the specifications does it mention that the firmware upgrade has been promised for months, but has yet to materialize.

Snuffi · 10-05-2009, 10:06 AM

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Originally Posted by K-Thom

Don't you both realize that firmware updates are a rare, endangered species?! The nerve of you hunting them down ...

Maybe Bookeen is doing the only correct thing: Preserving the update for future generations with a more sophisticated attitiude to such a delicate creature.

Poor wittle update, did those mean readers try to catch you ...?

If Bookeen really have one of those rare update species they should make it available for public viewing, like in a zoo, at least. If we cannot have one, at least let us see one!
So, put it on the web page and remove the download button

Snuffi · 10-05-2009, 10:18 AM

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Originally Posted by ProfJulie

Bookeen has updated the Cybook specifications to include the following statement:

"Note: Adobe® ePUB/PDF Reader support can be available via firmware upgrade. Adobe and Mobipocket DRMs can not be supported at the same time."

This statement misrepresents the Cybook's existing capabilities. No where in the specifications does it mention that the firmware upgrade has been promised for months, but has yet to materialize.

They clearly (?) state: "can be available via firmware upgrade" meaning "ePub support can and may - in its own discretion - choose to be available via a firmware upgrade". But even if the (personified) ePub support chooses to be availabe (which it *can* do but not necessarily really *does*) this would be effected only by a firmware upgrade. While no one will contest that it certainly *is* possible that ePub support *can* be introduced via a firmware upgrade, there is no mention in the text that such FW upgrade already exists or - effectively - ever will.

The statement by Bookeen is an excercise in logic, nevertheless it is not untrue: They merely state the possibility of a theoretical extension of capabilities via a hypothetical FW upgrade.
Just because Bookeen's style is as complicated and roundabout as Jacques Derrida's is no reason for criticism, after all they're both French

Truttebol · 10-05-2009, 10:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Snuffi

If Bookeen really have one of those rare update species they should make it available for public viewing, like in a zoo, at least. If we cannot have one, at least let us see one!
So, put it on the web page and remove the download button

No they won't, they are afraid you will steal it and sell it to us desperately waiting customers....

ErwinOtten · 10-05-2009, 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by gerraldo

Two features I'd absolutely LOVE to see!

And it'd be nice if you see the cover of the last read book at boot-up...

No, no, NO....... Please no more new wishes... We really don't want the slightest possibility that Bookeen will try to incorporate them in the forthcoming firmware..........

p.s. Harry really had got me puzzled. I thought he wanted a folder for "books I've almost recently opened" ........ I had to read it three times to see it was most instead of almost.

K-Thom · 10-05-2009, 03:19 PM

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No, no, NO....... Please no more new wishes... We really don't want the slightest possibility that Bookeen will try to incorporate them in the forthcoming firmware..........

Which one do you mean - the one we're waiting for or the one not even the most suicidal bookmaker would take any bets on?

Snuffi · 10-06-2009, 01:53 AM

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Originally Posted by K-Thom

Which one do you mean - the one we're waiting for or the one not even the most suicidal bookmaker would take any bets on?

Are you sure those two aren't really the same?

pieter · 10-06-2009, 05:52 AM

I'm soooo exciiiteeeed!!!
And I just can't hiiiide it!

Soon they will release a firmware upgrade!!!

Truttebol · 10-06-2009, 10:29 AM

This is why we still do not have an update:

http://www.betatales.com/2009/10/02/...aders-in-2010/

Instead of motivating and pep-talking his development-team (he probably IS the development team

) to work overnight to satisfy Bookeen's customers and give them the firmware update they so desperately want, he goes around chitchatting

about ereaders and their future.

If Bookeen goes on the way they do now with their fantastic customer support there will soon(oh,oh, not SOON!) be no future for them left in ereaders.

K-Thom · 10-06-2009, 12:34 PM

He never stated Bookeen would be a part of that future ...

10-05-2009, 10:04 AM	#456
ProfJulie Evangelist Posts: 423 Karma: 890 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: USA Device: whatever	False Advertising by Bookeen Bookeen has updated the Cybook specifications to include the following statement: "Note: Adobe® ePUB/PDF Reader support can be available via firmware upgrade. Adobe and Mobipocket DRMs can not be supported at the same time." This statement misrepresents the Cybook's existing capabilities. No where in the specifications does it mention that the firmware upgrade has been promised for months, but has yet to materialize.

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10-06-2009, 05:52 AM	#463
pieter Connoisseur Posts: 59 Karma: 501 Join Date: Mar 2008 Device: CyBook Gen3	I'm soooo exciiiteeeed!!! And I just can't hiiiide it! Soon they will release a firmware upgrade!!!

10-06-2009, 10:29 AM	#464
Truttebol Book worm Posts: 31 Karma: 260 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Netherlands Device: Sony PRS-600, Cybook Gen3	This is why we still do not have an update: http://www.betatales.com/2009/10/02/...aders-in-2010/ Instead of motivating and pep-talking his development-team (he probably IS the development team ) to work overnight to satisfy Bookeen's customers and give them the firmware update they so desperately want, he goes around chitchatting about ereaders and their future. If Bookeen goes on the way they do now with their fantastic customer support there will soon(oh,oh, not SOON!) be no future for them left in ereaders.

10-06-2009, 12:34 PM	#465
K-Thom The one and only Posts: 3,302 Karma: 535819 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Berlin, Germany Device: yup!	He never stated Bookeen would be a part of that future ...