Dual firmware announcement - Page 35

CyGuy · 10-09-2009, 12:04 PM

The obvious answer to the DRM dilemma is to remove DRM the very moment you purchase your books. You can then read them with either firmware. There is simply no reason not to remove DRM anyway, it makes the book much more versatile.
So, how much longer do we have to wait until we have folder view on our Gen III's? This is just getting ridiculous! Enough already, publish it!!!

rireed3 · 10-09-2009, 12:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CyGuy

The obvious answer to the DRM dilemma is to remove DRM the very moment you purchase your books. You can then read them with either firmware. There is simply no reason not to remove DRM anyway, it makes the book much more versatile.

True for now, although I'm not too sure what will happen to (self-censored) when I have to go from XP to Windows 7. I see the epub firmware as somewhat important, not to mention Bookeen business viability.

Richard

Idoine · 10-09-2009, 12:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Idoine

Personally, as I don't think stamping my feet like a child would do the trick, I suffer "silently" !

But I'm helped here by the fact there isn't another device with the same possibilities and a similar price !

Quote:

Originally Posted by rireed3

You do misunderstand, if you think you describe my thoughts.
...Richard

I was just commenting the "saint" and "due to be beatified" thing !

By the way, I'm a lazy one, and if I don't have to de-DRM all my books, and convert them, I'll be happy !

EowynCarter · 10-09-2009, 02:56 PM

Quote:

The obvious answer to the DRM dilemma is to remove DRM the very moment you purchase your books. You can then read them with either firmware. There is simply no reason not to remove DRM anyway, it makes the book much more versatile.

Truely. But some peaple don't want to mess up with computers.

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Bookeen have a serious problem either with hardware or mask ROM that prevents a reflash of some part of the new firmware from the SD card, although not from the factory procedure, which probably uses a JTAG interface

Nope. How do you think bookeen updated our gen 3 ?

Truttebol · 10-09-2009, 04:30 PM

There is sourcecode online. I have been browsing through it, but I'm not so into Linux and C so I cannot make anything usefull from it. Let's just hope for monday (don't ever give out upgrades just before the weekend, that's asking for trouble

)....

Maybe monday will be "soonday".

CyGuy · 10-09-2009, 05:35 PM

Maybe they said they would publish the firmware "one day" and someone thought they said "Monday". Perhaps a misunderstanding due to accent.

Or maybe they said they would publish it "some day" and someone heard "Monday", again a misunderstanding.

rireed3 · 10-10-2009, 05:23 AM

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Originally Posted by EowynCarter

Nope. How do you think bookeen updated our gen 3 ?

I haven't seen how posted. If they took it away, they probably opened it and connected a JTAG connector to the circuit board. That bypasses the operating system and writes the flash ROM directly.

If they did it in front of you with an SD card, then I stand corrected -- that explanatation from my two items would then be very unlikely.

Richard

EowynCarter · 10-10-2009, 05:34 AM

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Originally Posted by rireed3

If they did it in front of you with an SD card, then I stand corrected

That what they did

And they seams to have two version for the firmware for the differents gen3.

GeoffC · 10-10-2009, 06:36 AM

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Originally Posted by peterbbb

GeoffC

Wait and be patient! You must me some form of saint, or due to be beatified.

Not really, just hoping to make the next short-list for a prize issued in Norway ....

Halk · 10-10-2009, 04:32 PM

Topical!*

*May contain parody.

K-Thom · 10-10-2009, 06:56 PM

I could write an elaborate parody of a nobel prize given to Bookeen for the continuing effort to gathering the Cybook community under one single roof (MR), speaking with a single voice (this thread), as a hope for a unfified eBook reading world under one device - er, two firmwares, that is ... whatever.

But then, life would just imitate art again, and nothing surpasses Bokeen's real-life satire anyway.

KLausPetersen · 10-12-2009, 05:34 AM

(fake) News: Bookeen Software development switched over to Mars Timezone

Quote of a bookeen spokesman:
"A small step for mankind but a big step for deadlines."

First we didn't understand the meaning of this statement, but then it finally sunk in!

Nobody gets paid on Mars, nobody works on Mars.
No Churches on Mars, no birthdays on Mars, no houses on Mars.
So... guess what... no calendar on Mars.
Meaning ... no weeks on Mars ...
And most importantly NO Mondays at all on Mars!

See you on next Mars-Un-Monday

.
(some text parts found in the web searching for "monday on mars")

GeoffC · 10-12-2009, 05:39 AM

:spluttersalloverkeyboard:

Snuffi · 10-13-2009, 07:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by delphidb96

NOT to worry. I have emailed Bookeen and expressed my *extreme* displeasure in their firmware update strategy. We should be getting the updates "any day now".

Derek

Is that the same "any" as in the phrase "There isn't *any* sugar left"?

Snuffi · 10-13-2009, 07:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KLausPetersen

(fake) News: Bookeen Software development switched over to Mars Timezone

Quote of a bookeen spokesman:
"A small step for mankind but a big step for deadlines."

First we didn't understand the meaning of this statement, but then it finally sunk in!

Nobody gets paid on Mars, nobody works on Mars.
No Churches on Mars, no birthdays on Mars, no houses on Mars.
So... guess what... no calendar on Mars.
Meaning ... no weeks on Mars ...
And most importantly NO Mondays at all on Mars!

See you on next Mars-Un-Monday

.
(some text parts found in the web searching for "monday on mars")

That's not the reason. It's because one Mars year is just slightly less than 2 Earth years meaning that all their deadlines are double the time on earth:
"We will deliver in 6 months" (omitting the MTZ, Mars Time Zone) means 6 months * 1.9 = 11 months and 12 days

I wonder what's the value of "We will deliver soon" soon * 1.9 = ?

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10-09-2009, 12:04 PM	#511
CyGuy Avid Reader Posts: 769 Karma: 7777778 Join Date: Aug 2009 Device: PocketBook 902, Galaxy Tab 2 7.0, ASUS TF700, and Cybook Gen III	The obvious answer to the DRM dilemma is to remove DRM the very moment you purchase your books. You can then read them with either firmware. There is simply no reason not to remove DRM anyway, it makes the book much more versatile. So, how much longer do we have to wait until we have folder view on our Gen III's? This is just getting ridiculous! Enough already, publish it!!!

10-09-2009, 04:30 PM	#515
Truttebol Book worm Posts: 31 Karma: 260 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Netherlands Device: Sony PRS-600, Cybook Gen3	There is sourcecode online. I have been browsing through it, but I'm not so into Linux and C so I cannot make anything usefull from it. Let's just hope for monday (don't ever give out upgrades just before the weekend, that's asking for trouble ).... Maybe monday will be "soonday".

10-09-2009, 05:35 PM	#516
CyGuy Avid Reader Posts: 769 Karma: 7777778 Join Date: Aug 2009 Device: PocketBook 902, Galaxy Tab 2 7.0, ASUS TF700, and Cybook Gen III	Maybe they said they would publish the firmware "one day" and someone thought they said "Monday". Perhaps a misunderstanding due to accent. Or maybe they said they would publish it "some day" and someone heard "Monday", again a misunderstanding.

10-10-2009, 04:32 PM	#520
Halk Fanatic Posts: 538 Karma: 469999 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Sony PRS-650 (PRS+ alpha - thanks Kartu!)	Topical!* *May contain parody.

10-10-2009, 06:56 PM	#521
K-Thom The one and only Posts: 3,302 Karma: 535819 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Berlin, Germany Device: yup!	I could write an elaborate parody of a nobel prize given to Bookeen for the continuing effort to gathering the Cybook community under one single roof (MR), speaking with a single voice (this thread), as a hope for a unfified eBook reading world under one device - er, two firmwares, that is ... whatever. But then, life would just imitate art again, and nothing surpasses Bokeen's real-life satire anyway.

10-12-2009, 05:34 AM	#522
KLausPetersen Connoisseur Posts: 51 Karma: 514 Join Date: Mar 2008 Device: Bookeen Cybook	(fake) News: Bookeen Software development switched over to Mars Timezone Quote of a bookeen spokesman: "A small step for mankind but a big step for deadlines." First we didn't understand the meaning of this statement, but then it finally sunk in! Nobody gets paid on Mars, nobody works on Mars. No Churches on Mars, no birthdays on Mars, no houses on Mars. So... guess what... no calendar on Mars. Meaning ... no weeks on Mars ... And most importantly NO Mondays at all on Mars! See you on next Mars-Un-Monday . (some text parts found in the web searching for "monday on mars")

10-12-2009, 05:39 AM	#523
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	:spluttersalloverkeyboard: