Finally! Cybook Firmware upgrade available for download! - Page 14

CyGuy · 12-28-2009, 11:40 AM

I just installed 1.5. I am now able to organize all of my books into separate folders!!! Thank you!!!

Manichean · 12-28-2009, 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Crusader

Is the metadata bug only limited to the status bar? In library view my books still show all the info (title/ author/ publisher). Can't remember if these are all books I uploaded pre-V2 update.

No, it's not. I'm not seeing any metadata in the library, either.

ErwinOtten · 12-28-2009, 02:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Idoine

I just tried, made another folder parallel to eBooks, and moved my subfolders in it, and now the search is near 2s !

Karma for you !

Indeed, an update of the wiki is needed. Now with folder support it's better to place your books not in the eBook folder. I've named the 'main' folder where my books are in 'mobiBooks' (with subfolders in there) and my dictionary lookup is much faster.

vishcompany · 12-28-2009, 02:33 PM

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Originally Posted by chlorine

For dictionary lookup speed, I implemented the following scheme, which seems to work OK: I placed the dictionaries on the root of the eBooks folder on the cybook. All my other books are on the SD card, but not in the eBooks folder: I created a MyBooks folder for them. I think it doesn't look up for dictionaries there, and I believe the same would happen if you created a MyBooks folder on the cybook itself.
Others should test this though, because I don't have that many books on the SD card.

I just did, what you suggested and it works great. Thanks for this hint!

Seems, that my Gen3 finally does exactly, what it is supposed to do, I can live with this workaround. It also did not crash a single time, since I installed the new fw.

So all i need is a new battery cover, as mine cracked for some unknown reason (actually while being in a protective case. weird...

Terisa de morgan · 12-28-2009, 02:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Idoine

I just tried, made another folder parallel to eBooks, and moved my subfolders in it, and now the search is near 2s !

Karma for you !

Thanks, thanks, thanks, I'll do that. Not a lot of books but...

EowynCarter · 12-28-2009, 02:47 PM

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I am a dev myself, too

Then tell me, are you so perfect your software is totally bug-free ?

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Furthermore, one of the most basic rues of development is: Never release an update directly before a weekend or a holiday.

Indead. That's why i didn't though it would be released on the 24.

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IMHO, the proper course of action now would be a public acknowledgement of the bug coupled with a warning on the firmware download page and maybe a d/l option for the current 1.9 firmware (so people can decide for themselves if they'd rather have occasional crashes or buggy epub imports) and an ETA on an updated firmware. If it really is a small bug, it shouldn't take more than a month to fix - including testing. If sudden complications delay it, the devs can drop a few lines about that on the blog, as well. That way, their customers know the company cares about them and improving their software. And Bookeen should care about their customer base - with so many new e-readers coming out in 2010 (most of them based on the same or very similar hardware as Bookeen's products), people are easily tempted to switch to a competing product if they're not happy with their current reader.

When a few months have gone and this isn't fixed, then you can begin complaining. For now let's wait and see all right ?
One of the problem for me is I tends to suffix files names with "nodrm" "edited", and others stuff. So i have to rename the book if i want a proper title. Not that much of a pain.

JSWolf · 12-28-2009, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Jellby

Not really, because that's 100% of the container's height, and the container is usually the <body> element, whose height is flexible and adapts to its contents (unless forced to some hardcoded height). It works with width, because <body> takes the width of the screen, but it doesn't work with height, or at least there are cases (readers) when it doesn't work.

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<img src="resources/_cover_.jpg" alt="cover" style="height: 100%"/>

That works on ADE and my 505. it's from the cover code that Calibre uses. So if it doesn't work, then there's a bug in the ADE code.

tompe · 12-28-2009, 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Idoine

I just tried, made another folder parallel to eBooks, and moved my subfolders in it, and now the search is near 2s !

Karma for you !

Do you then see the books if you do not use folders?

Idoine · 12-28-2009, 03:16 PM

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Originally Posted by tompe

Do you then see the books if you do not use folders?

Nope ! But with 500+ ebooks, using folders is nearly indispensable !

ramboky · 12-28-2009, 04:03 PM

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Core fonctionality ?
I don't really see reading meta data as core fonctionality... Displaying ePub is. And it work better than it ever did.

The library view of epubs is not core functionality? For me it is, I have to change the way I use my reader to work around the bug. But I will concede that it is probably not considered core by most and possibly not by Bookeen.

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The day me myself never make any bugs, i'll fell like I can yell at other for making some. But i'm not perfect, i know it, and don't have the pretention to expect other to be.

Pretension has nothing to do with it. It's called professionalism. It is my job, as it is the Bookeen developers and testers to deliver the highest quality code possible given the constraints. Yes, bugs happen, I create my own fair share, but this bug was discovered within minutes of the upgrade (and by others before me) - it was obvious and easy to find. I reiterate, if using a proper testing strategy and test scripts this will not happen. Generally issues like this only make it to production when testing is limited and/or developers are doing their own testing.

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If bookeen had no intention of fixing that, that would be a reason to whine. But they probably will so.

I'm afraid I have little faith Bookeen will release a fix any time soon. Their service over the last year suggests little else. But if / when they do, I will happily and humbly eat my words, without pretension.

Bookeen should consider a beta program. I suspect most folk here would happily participate, as would I. I do really love my Opus, when it's working as it should.

EowynCarter · 12-28-2009, 04:11 PM

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Bookeen should consider a beta program. I suspect most folk here would happily participate, as would I. I do really love my Opus, when it's working as it should.

True.

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Pretension has nothing to do with it. It's called professionalism. It is my job, as it is the Bookeen developers and testers to deliver the highest quality code possible given the constraints. Yes, bugs happen, I create my own fair share, but this bug was discovered within minutes of the upgrade (and by others before me) - it was obvious and easy to find. I reiterate, if using a proper testing strategy and test scripts this will not happen. Generally issues like this only make it to production when testing is limited and/or developers are doing their own testing.

You're seeing this from a big company point of view....

In the meantime, i can use my SD card again

ramboky · 12-28-2009, 04:58 PM

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You're seeing this from a big company point of view....

Not at all. I have worked on everything from Mom and Pop operations to government contracts over the last ten years. The basic rules of good software development do not change, just the method of implementing them. How small is Bookeen?

Irrespective of the development team size using proper testing strategy and test scripts (including regression as has been mentioned in this thread) will still ensure bugs like this don't make it to production. This is a basic necessity of good software development and there is no excuse for not doing it. It's hardly complicated either, for each requirement you must have a test which you must perform and pass prior to a release.

e.g. (obviously would require more detail)
Requirement: The Library View displays the list of books on the device with Title, Author and Published Date retrieved from the ebooks meta data as per the epub spec.
Validation: Add an epub ebook to the device with known Title, Author and Published date. Open the Library View on the device and confirm the book is displayed with the known data.

A couple of minutes to write (once) and less than a minute to run.

If this test was not performed prior to release (or worse, not written) then someone was not doing their job properly. Not harsh. Not pretentious. Just a fact.

There is also Unit testing and Automated Testing which possibly could have caught this issue before release.

Krystian Galaj · 12-28-2009, 05:11 PM

Hmm. If your old books still show correct metadata, and only the new ones aren't correct, it would appear to me the bug lies in generation of additional cached information, contained in cached book information file you have with the book on Cybook. Perhaps it would be possible to analyze the format of good cached data, bad cached data, and write a plugin (for Calibre, for example), that would fix the problem in cached data files, or even generate the cached data along with the book, thus circumventing the problem?

Just an idea, I use 1.5 myself.

Crusader · 12-28-2009, 05:23 PM

I just added some new books to my Opus running v2.0 and i can confirm that the new books don't show any metadata. The books that were loaded before the update shows the correct metadata.

ramboky · 12-28-2009, 05:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Krystian Galaj

Hmm. If your old books still show correct metadata, and only the new ones aren't correct, it would appear to me the bug lies in generation of additional cached information, contained in cached book information file you have with the book on Cybook. Perhaps it would be possible to analyze the format of good cached data, bad cached data, and write a plugin (for Calibre, for example), that would fix the problem in cached data files, or even generate the cached data along with the book, thus circumventing the problem?

Just an idea, I use 1.5 myself.

That's a damn good idea. I will have a look at mine and see what I can find. Unfortunately I cleared all my books off and re-added them in an attempt to fix the problem so there is a chance my cache file doesn't even exist because of the bug.

Thanks!

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12-28-2009, 11:40 AM	#196
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	I just installed 1.5. I am now able to organize all of my books into separate folders!!! Thank you!!!

12-28-2009, 05:11 PM	#208
Krystian Galaj Guru Posts: 820 Karma: 11012 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Warsaw, Poland Device: Bookeen Cybook	Hmm. If your old books still show correct metadata, and only the new ones aren't correct, it would appear to me the bug lies in generation of additional cached information, contained in cached book information file you have with the book on Cybook. Perhaps it would be possible to analyze the format of good cached data, bad cached data, and write a plugin (for Calibre, for example), that would fix the problem in cached data files, or even generate the cached data along with the book, thus circumventing the problem? Just an idea, I use 1.5 myself.

12-28-2009, 05:23 PM	#209
Crusader Space Cadet Posts: 1,180 Karma: 4030536 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: South Africa Device: Sony PRS-T1, Cybook Opus, Kobo Glo	I just added some new books to my Opus running v2.0 and i can confirm that the new books don't show any metadata. The books that were loaded before the update shows the correct metadata.

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