the unofficial Bookeen Blog

[EowynCarter]

Maybe that's why it was down for some time yesterday?

Was it ?
I've seen the website being verry slow recently. More likley it finally crashed down, or was shut down for maintenance.

[ErwinOtten]

Originally Posted by GeoffC

Bookeen Blog ,

Bookeen blog .."to give all the last information concerning our developments".

You've answered it yourself..... They have given their LAST information.

(ok overkill )

[K-Thom]

to give all the last information concerning our developments"

That was a typing error. Correctly it should spell "to give all the least information concerning our developments" ...

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by ErwinOtten

You've answered it yourself..... They have given their LAST information.

(ok overkill )

Originally Posted by K-Thom

That was a typing error. Correctly it should spell "to give all the least information concerning our developments" ...

i thought they wrote exactly what they meant to ..... last !!!!!

[Abelturd]

Let's just say you were both right.

[Halk]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Sure. It's illegal in the UK, as are all other forms of "format conversion" (eg, it's illegal to rip your own, legally-bought, CD to an iPod in the UK, too).

You're vanishingly unlikely to actually be prosecuted for it, but it is, technically at least, illegal. It's a breach of the 1998 "Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act", to be specific.

Perhaps things may change in the UK. Consumer Focus argues against current laws, although I really don't know if they have any power at all to help any change happen - they are not a regulator. They're a UK statutory consumer organisation.

[Piotr]

Hi guys,

This is my first post here. I got Cybook gen3 recently - and I read this thread about waiting for a new version of firmware. Perhaps this can be interesting what I just found. I just read that a polish 'Amazon' like company (Kolporter) plans to start selling ebooks in its store as well as a dedicated eBook reader device. Looking at specs of this device that was briefly announced, I bet this is Cybook they have on minds: same dimensions and weight:

"118 x 188 x 8,5 mm, wraz z baterią waży tylko 174 g"

So - perhaps we are waiting so long because of this deal - Cybook is implementing neccessary changes? I know this dedicated device is supposed to read ePub formatted books. Here is a link to full text if anyone can read polish: 118 x 188 x 8,5 mm, wraz z baterią waży tylko 174 g

Hope this helps a bit :-)

[Piotr]

Here is a link, again:

http://biuro.kolporter.com.pl/?p=1111

[Snuffi]

Originally Posted by ser1us

No matter what all of you say, I still hope for this week ;-) I want to believe!!!


By the way, I suppose they release something soon anyway. Bookeen presented the new Opus device which has a new firmware.

If they want to keep both devices on the same level they have to provide the firmware for the Gen3 sooner or later.

From the Opus presentation: not much time until June!

That's the reason why I think they're going to release a new firmware very soon.

According to that logic they would have released the firmware with the release of the Weltbild device. As that firmware is even closer to the original firmware than an Opus firmware even less adaptations would have been necessary.
I would rather argue that while they were focusing on Weltbild they stopped working on the FW for the rest of us entirely. Now they are working on Opus so they won't have time for anything else.

Let's hope they stop developing new devices one day because then they will finally have the time to release "our" firmware. No, wait, if they do that they would go under rather soon and wouldn't release anything anymore... So, it seems we are out of luck

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by Piotr

Here is a link, again:

http://biuro.kolporter.com.pl/?p=1111

It's a Netronix machine, certainly, but not necessarily a CyBook. There are a whole slew of Netronix devices appearing on the market these days, such as the "Cooler".

[Krystian Galaj]

Additional information from the page: it'll be able to read DRMed ePub, and non-DRMed PDF, TXT, HTML. Up to 400 books will fit in its internal memory, and it'll have SD slot handling SD card up to 4GB. It'll also be able to show black-and-white photos, and play mp3.
What other Netronix devices handle DRM ePub, and non-DRM PDF, HTML and TXT?

[GeoffC]

One day, soon, a Cybook Gen3 running the latest firmware (or nidge nudge, an Inkpot alternative)......

As increasingly it seems that as the US restricts the sale of some mobi ebooks, it becomes more urgent for the firmware on the Cybook to include ePub as an option, otherwise I have to seriously change my reading habits .....

[gerraldo]

Originally Posted by Krystian Galaj

Additional information from the page: it'll be able to read DRMed ePub, and non-DRMed PDF, TXT, HTML. Up to 400 books will fit in its internal memory, and it'll have SD slot handling SD card up to 4GB. It'll also be able to show black-and-white photos, and play mp3.
What other Netronix devices handle DRM ePub, and non-DRM PDF, HTML and TXT?

There's NO device that handles all these formats... not even the Weltbild reader!

[Snuffi]

Originally Posted by Krystian Galaj

Additional information from the page: it'll be able to read DRMed ePub, and non-DRMed PDF, TXT, HTML. Up to 400 books will fit in its internal memory, and it'll have SD slot handling SD card up to 4GB. It'll also be able to show black-and-white photos, and play mp3.
What other Netronix devices handle DRM ePub, and non-DRM PDF, HTML and TXT?

Sounds strikingly like the Weltbild version of the Cybook. Weltbild is pretty large in Europe, might be one of their resellers or partners...
(Except that the Weltbild firmware doesn't *actually* support those formats *yet*)

[Godzil]

And the photos are not necessary in black and white, they can be in any number of color you waht. It's only during the display process that only 4 shades of gray are used