Finally! Cybook Firmware upgrade available for download!

[ramboky]

Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan

Can you have Mobi FW at Opus?

Yep, the Mobi firmware seems to work fine with the Opus. Unfortunately my entire ebook collection is in epub format and whilst I can convert them the results are not always that pretty

[becket]

I converted my Cybook to Epub because I can convert the mobi books to that but most of my Epubs I can't convert, it is so much easier to read than the Sony 505, the folders are good a good improvement.
Becky

[Idoine]

Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan

I don't think so. Lookup works at my Cybook after the new FW and I hadn't touched the books at the SD card.

How many books have you in your Cybook ? And folders ?
I have 500+, and a tree of folders by genre/author.
The lookup seemed to freeze mine the 1rst time I used it after upgrade, but in fact it was just verrrrry long to show the list of words ! (about 60s vs 3-5s before update)
THAT is the bug in the mobi version, other than that, it's great (didn't freeze after hours of reading so far , and the battery seems to stay at 90% !)

[Godzil]

Originally Posted by brudigia

Did anybody answer this question ? I couldn't see a reply. I saw Halk on page 5 (#66) saying they went to 2.0 and then back to 1.5. I'm interested, before trying to switch to ePub.

The Mobi PID and ADE authorisation are based on the serial number of the device, so no, they will not change.

[T_Frain_K]

Originally Posted by Godzil

The Mobi PID and ADE authorisation are based on the serial number of the device, so no, they will not change.

So, the ADE authorisation is not somewhat dependent on some files or something similar which could be lost during re-update?
Thanks. I appreciate that information

EPub, here I come

[nazgul]

Originally Posted by Krystian Galaj

Dictionary lookup works on my Cybook on 1.5 with the same dictionary I had earlier, located in main memory.
Perhaps the fact that I deleted all Cybook information from the SD card I have the books on before updating the firmware has something to do with it?

The problem seems to be random, sometime lookup work sometimes not. I have the suspect that the problem could be in the directory structure I have created with at lease four levels of subfolders with long name for files and folder. I have at the moment about 1200 books on the device. I have tried with a reduced version of the structure with simpler names apparently without problems. I will do some more testing...

Regards

[Deneb]

Have installed the 1.5 and it works great so far. At last it's a pleasure again to play (and read) with my cybook. Calibre proved to be more than useful too now. I don't care about any little bug(s) there may be, I have folders!!! Hourra! I am happy

[delphidb96]

Originally Posted by ramboky

Hi folks,

I have upgraded my Cybook Opus to the epub 2.0 firmware and it seems the device can no longer read the meta data correctly. Books on the library page seem to derive the title from the filename (which as I am using calibre means you get things like "Sole Survivor - Dean R. Koontz_23" and the author is no longer displayed below the title line.

Is anyone else having similar problems?

Thanks.

I am so glad I stuck with v1.5! Yep, my 64MB Gen3 is now running v1.5 and doing so quite happily. I've switched it over to folder view and I love how much easier it is for me to find my books! I created folders for:

AlternateHistory
ChickLit
DarkFantasy
Fantasy
Mainstream
Mystery
Paranormal
SciFi
Thriller

Basically, I group the 'lightweight/fun' vampire/werewolf/undead stuff under Paranormal and the 'heavy/violent' stuff under DarkFantasy. With these groupings I'm never more than five pages away from any given title.

Hooray!

.............

Okay. Got THAT off my chest and I'm now going back to 'I must criticize Bookeen at every turn' mode.

Derek

[Jellby]

Originally Posted by EowynCarter

Try changing pages, then + - (there's a bug there, it sometimes works, and sometimes don't)

I've tried several times, it has never worked. I'll keep trying.

Originally Posted by tompe

No, it is not. Even without the cover you get a shadow. It is most probably a bug in the ePub that have no top margin. Even without the shadow it looks dreadful from a typographical point of view with no top margin.

I'd say it's a "bug" in the reader. There is no way (that I know of) in ePUB to specify top and bottom margins. You can only set margins in the non-standard Adobe-specific page templates. Even for right and left margins, I strongly believe they should be settable by the user in the reader software, and not in the ePUB book itself.

There is also no way to use the screen size (particularly screen height) in setting the sizes or positions of images (or any other element). This is probably the reason behind other problems you see.

[tompe]

Originally Posted by Jellby

I'd say it's a "bug" in the reader. There is no way (that I know of) in ePUB to specify top and bottom margins. You can only set margins in the non-standard Adobe-specific page templates.

Yes, and it is when this page template is specified there is a problem. So since it is non-standard to use this page template file then the resulting file is not an ePub file or does the standard allow non-standard things?

But let us call these Adobe files for aPub. The I would argue that an aPub file that specifies top margin that make the text to align with the border is not a file that takes into consideration good typography. There might also be a bug in the software somewhere...

There is also no way to use the screen size (particularly screen height) in setting the sizes or positions of images (or any other element). This is probably the reason behind other problems you see.

Should that not be up to the renderer? Why do you need to specify something? If you have a status bar then tha page size is reduced and the renderer has to take that into account.

[tompe]

I was wrong. i have the problem with The Prince and the Pauper and no Adobe page specification is used there. But margins are specified in the css file and they seem to have effect. I am trying to see which specification cases the text to be placed to hight but it is hard to find it...

[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by Idoine

How many books have you in your Cybook ? And folders ?
I have 500+, and a tree of folders by genre/author.
The lookup seemed to freeze mine the 1rst time I used it after upgrade, but in fact it was just verrrrry long to show the list of words ! (about 60s vs 3-5s before update)
THAT is the bug in the mobi version, other than that, it's great (didn't freeze after hours of reading so far , and the battery seems to stay at 90% !)

Ok, I'm one of those strange persons who has her library at the hard-disk, not at the SD Card. Only about 60 books and 10 folders or less (including some coming from my Palm, ony 3 folders for books). So no, I haven't noted any differences, of course.

[tompe]

The problem seems to be that all folders are scanned for dictionaries. That is strange for it was well known before that if you put all your books in a sub directory and the dictionaries in the top directory lookup was much faster. On the other hand it is consistent with previous firmware updates that some things get worse. What is strange is why they did not create a special directory for dictionaries.

[Manichean]

Originally Posted by ramboky

Hi folks,

I have upgraded my Cybook Opus to the epub 2.0 firmware and it seems the device can no longer read the meta data correctly. Books on the library page seem to derive the title from the filename (which as I am using calibre means you get things like "Sole Survivor - Dean R. Koontz_23" and the author is no longer displayed below the title line.

Is anyone else having similar problems?

Thanks.

This is what I actually tried to say earlier in this thread.

[Idoine]

Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan

Ok, I'm one of those strange persons who has her library at the hard-disk, not at the SD Card. Only about 60 books and 10 folders or less (including some coming from my Palm, ony 3 folders for books). So no, I haven't noted any differences, of course.

I was afraid of that !
I tried with just 2 sub-folders and some 20 ebooks, and the lapse went from 70s to 8s...

Originally Posted by tompe

The problem seems to be that all folders are scanned for dictionaries. That is strange for it was well known before that if you put all your books in a sub directory and the dictionaries in the top directory look was much faster. On the other hand it is consistent with previous firmware updates that some things get worse. What is strange is why they did not create a special directory for dictionaries.

Yes, a dedicated folder, or just the root of eBooks, as before, would be great ! After all, they just need to not search elsewhere !