PRS-505 Page Counter, Read Timer and Pages per Minute

[Tibor]

It is true that 'Time left to read' is not as valuable as the others and maybe it could be hidden, although it is a interesenting data to have. An idea would be that when you turn on (coming from sleep) or when you open a book, first show that data based on average time-left, and when you press 'next-page' for first time then show normal view.

Certainly, I dont really know if I would prefer to hidden it. If it is not a nuisanse, it would be nice to have it.

About the install, although complex, an idea would be to modify the existing file and not to replace it, maybe with a script.

[slepp]

It's not a nuisance, it's more that it takes space that could be used for other information (like the seconds counter, etc.). I may be able to make the width a bit wider too, to make it fit better.

For the patching part, a script may be OK, but I haven't reviewed the flashing script enough to see what it is up to, and I imagine most systems that would go about using the patch won't have GNU Patch or similar to patch the file directly. I think it would work best in that program that takes a ton of hacks and lets you glue them together, but I've barely used it.

I think it may be very useful to just list off: 'go to line 300, paste this code', etc. There's only 4 blocks of code to put in place for it to work.. Unfortunately, if you were to paste wrong, it'll brick the PRS and you have to do the painful reflash from Sony's original firmware to get it back again. When I first posted this, I hoped someone with some experience in sending hacks out in PRS Customizer or in the hack tool would pipe up :P

[exelinguy]

Thankyou for this wonderful script. I modified it a bit to display the time remaining in hours instead of minutes. I don't know any programming. I wish to learn though. XML seems quite easy especially with all the reference that's available out there. Any idea where I can get more info on the Sony PRS-505 in terms of DOM, etc.?

[JeffElkins]

Very nice mod! Once this is stable, I'd like to include it into PRSCustomizer.

[cartman]

I really liked this mod, but unfortunately it also makes menu font size be the same everywhere, and i prefer the default. Is there any way i can fix that?

[slepp]

Originally Posted by cartman

I really liked this mod, but unfortunately it also makes menu font size be the same everywhere, and i prefer the default. Is there any way i can fix that?

I'm glad you like it. I have some updates I need to put public, for things like counting pages properly in an ePub (page counter doesn't equal 'page turns', it's strange)

Anyhow, for your font issue, open the main.xml file (found in opt/sony/ebook/application/resources/scripts/main.xml) and modify the lines as follows:

Starting on line 9, find the things like 'style id="kbookBigTitle"', etc. and set the sizes:

kbookBigTitle = 48
kbookSmallTitle = 36
kbookVBigName = 36
kbookVMallName = 24
kbookVComment = 18
kbookHBigName = 24
kbookHSmallName = 18
kbookHComment = 16

I hope that covers it for you. See http://pastebin.ca/1450337 for what it should about look like. Let me know if this doesn't solve it for you.

[cartman]

Thanks, i will try it! I think this is a nice hack, can it be included in PRSCustomizer? Also, when i installed it i thought that i saw a small increase in the page turn delay, but i am not sure it really exists-i will have to test it. Have you seen anything like that?

[slepp]

It does a fair bit of work during the page turn, but I haven't noticed any delay between before and after. There is some code I plan to turn off in the next version since it isn't very useful, that may help,

[voidIndigo]

Hi, sleep

I made the changes to already customized files, mapping them (mostly - I think I´ll have to review some line numbers) and was able to create and flash the new image in my PRS.

Now I can see the total counters in the About page, and when I press the 9, it shows the message "Timers reset", BUT the counters do not show in the books. Also, no matter how long I read, the counters in the about page are always zero.

I reviewed the changes, and noticed something: you save and load the counters in "b:/reading.stats". Which card drive is this "b:/"? Do you use the SD or the ProDuo? Where I can discover the letter of the drives?

Thanks for any information.

Best regards,

void Indigo

[slepp]

B: should be the SD card. The reason I chose to put it here is to save writing to the internal flash very often (no need to wear out something is not replaceable). It stores the read counters in the reading.stats file on the SD card to keep it through plugging in power, etc. The Pro Duo should be A: and the internal flash should be c:.

Originally Posted by voidIndigo

Hi, sleep

I made the changes to already customized files, mapping them (mostly - I think I´ll have to review some line numbers) and was able to create and flash the new image in my PRS.

Now I can see the total counters in the About page, and when I press the 9, it shows the message "Timers reset", BUT the counters do not show in the books. Also, no matter how long I read, the counters in the about page are always zero.

I reviewed the changes, and noticed something: you save and load the counters in "b:/reading.stats". Which card drive is this "b:/"? Do you use the SD or the ProDuo? Where I can discover the letter of the drives?

Thanks for any information.

Best regards,

void Indigo

[gregcd]

Hope the Automatic page turn mod comes to fruition, in the meantime see my Automatic page turn / remote Working Prototype device:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=56009

[Tibor]

Do you know if this mod can be applyed after prs-customizer or after prs+ ?? During a years I have found this very useful?

JeffElkins, you said maybe you would modify prs-customizer with this mod, no plans on this???

thanks