Bookeen releases firmware upgrade

[Godzil]

But you can here : http://www.bookeen.com/store/canada

[John Bailey]

Originally Posted by EowynCarter

Yeap. I took the habit of letting the cybook always on. Still haven't took the reflex of hitting the off button.

Give it a while. The habit will develop.

[krapo]

Originally Posted by elena

version 1.6 improves lookup speed, they say.

Hi,

I upgraded my Gen3 200MHz because of this. However I didn't notice an improvement (but I might be wrong as I didn't use a stopwatch pre and post upgrade ).

[elena]

Originally Posted by krapo

Hi,

I upgraded my Gen3 200MHz because of this. However I didn't notice an improvement (but I might be wrong as I didn't use a stopwatch pre and post upgrade ).

it's the same for me, I see no apparent improvement

[ramboky]

Originally Posted by roncri

Now I remember why I don't post in this forum.

Because it's impossible to say anything about bookeen without Eowyn jumping in to defend them?

Anyway...

Regarding the "instant on" feature. It creates a pretty cool standby screen from your library but it does consume some power and will eat your battery in a few days. I still prefer to switch it off so I know it will be working next time I want to read.

I've been playing with a beta of this firmware for a little while on my Opus and all-in-all I have to say I'm pretty pleased. The broken library view was a big one for me so I'm happy to see that working again. Shame it took six months for a couple of small bug fixes but at least it's here now.

[Polyglot27]

Thank you Harry for alerting us to this upgrade. Three cheers to Bookeen. This upgrade has made it possible for me to see the Chinese titles on the library page. I have not tried it for other Asian languages but it would be interesting to see if it works for Thai too (another left to right language) as this is what I am learning now.
As far as I am concerned, Bookeen has been very good in its efforts to improve their machines. Even though I have the old 200 MHz Gen 3, I still enjoy using it as much as the day I bought it.
Having Turkish on the menus now means I can persuade my Turkish friends to take the plunge and buy one for themselves.

[EowynCarter]

Originally Posted by ramboky

Because it's impossible to say anything about bookeen without Eowyn jumping in to defend them?
.

Look at ronci's post. "I'm unhappy". That all. No given reason, no explanation. We still don't know what's is Ronci's problem.

I regret having updated the gen3 though. Margin cropping gone killed pdf reading... And that's what my father use the gen3 for...

Though for the opus, instant on, no more ade page numbers. Cool

I still prefer to switch it off so I know it will be working next time I want to read.

Yeah, caused a few "empty battery" issue.

[ramboky]

Originally Posted by EowynCarter

Look at ronci's post. "I'm unhappy". That all. No given reason, no explanation. We still don't know what's is Ronci's problem.

Actually ronci quoted you in his/her reply suggesting you were the problem. But I'll let ronci speak for him/herself.

Anyway, my intention was to give credit where it's due and provide my positive feedback on the new firmware, not to hijack this thread with another pointless argument with you, so let's just move on.

[EowynCarter]

Originally Posted by ramboky

Actually ronci quoted you in his/her reply suggesting you were the problem. But I'll let ronci speak for him/herself.

I was speaking about ronci's first post.

And all us Gen3 v1 early adopters groan.

That one. While I **might** guess that the reason is the not supported by old gen3 features, but then, I'm not sure about that.

So, what's making Ronci unhappy ? What does he think bokeen would have done and did not ? Not a clue there.
I hate that "I just want to whine" attitude. Critic if you will, but make explained and constructive critics.

[tompe]

Originally Posted by EowynCarter

I regret having updated the gen3 though. Margin cropping gone killed pdf reading... And that's what my father use the gen3 for...

Yes, this is strange. The pdf reading is now useless again. With cropping it was sometimes useful.

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by tompe

Yes, this is strange. The pdf reading is now useless again. With cropping it was sometimes useful.

i saw a comment somewhere (on the blog maybe) saying that because of some software changes they discovered pdf margin-cropping became unstable, so they preferred to remove it, but they are fixing it and it will be back in a future upgrade (probably the next one).

[EowynCarter]

oh, right:

Concernant la suppression des marges dans le format pdf avec le firmware 2.1, en effet nous avons constaté quelques problèmes avec cette fonction et plutôt que de livrer un firmware instable nous avons préféré la désactiver provisoirement. Nous savons à quel point elle est appréciée et notre équipe dév en a fait une priorité. Nous la ré-intégrerons bien sûr dans une future mise à jour

Sorry for the french. That pretty much what zelda said. Nice to know.

[Rizla]

They have been available in Archambault in Quebec, Canada for at least six months.

Re: the upgrade, I just installed 2.1 no problem on an 8 gig SD card. Nice upgrade. It's much faster now.

Now I wonder, is it possible to hack the standby screens...?

[EowynCarter]

Not as far as I know.
Bookeen said they might make it so one can change the images. Maybe later.

Hey, i got an idea. random book cover from the books on the cybook. Woudn't that be nice ?

[Godzil]

Or just the book you are currently reading, that would be great too