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Old 11-17-2009, 05:10 PM   #46
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The scroll wheel presently does only one thing... serve as a third way to advance or degress pages.
Are you not aware that pressing the scroll wheel momentarily, brings up the menu?
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Old 11-17-2009, 06:24 PM   #47
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Momentairly pressing brings up the menu.
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Are you not aware that pressing the scroll wheel momentarily, brings up the menu?

Dear Jusmee:

Yes and thank you for reminding me. I just want to see that scroll wheel become more important and with more utility!!
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Old 11-17-2009, 06:28 PM   #48
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Pressing in on the scroll wheel to get at an "extended" (Shift key/more) for the Menu button when the choices exceeds what currently fits (1-0) instead of just getting the normal menu another way.

Spin wheel (alphabet up/down, press to select) for entering search text (when in search mode) instead of/alternate to the Tap method.
Dear The Ducks:

Great mind!! Yes, using the scroll wheel as a spin wheel for entering text would speed up a good but a little cumbersome search function! I like that idea and will ask.

IF we do have a contest with a prize offered I will remember it is your suggestion!
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Old 11-17-2009, 06:55 PM   #49
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Guess he didn't like my suggestion. I'm hurt!
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Old 11-17-2009, 07:31 PM   #50
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Guess he didn't like my suggestion. I'm hurt!
I liked it.
I was building on your suggestion.
I did not know this was a "Pick one" commenter type wish list.
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Old 11-17-2009, 07:57 PM   #51
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Are you not aware that pressing the scroll wheel momentarily, brings up the menu?
Yes, but you can't do anything after you bring it up. To be useful, once the menu is up your should be able to use the scroll wheel to scroll through the menu highlighting the choice and then a second press would select the highlighted item.

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Old 11-17-2009, 08:04 PM   #52
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Here is an excerpt from an email I sent Astak in September.

THUMBWHEEL FEATURE

Another good function is that of permitting a dynamic redefining of the thumbwheel function.

1. When the user depresses the thumb wheel 4 choices would appear on the screen. (optionally only choice 2, 3, and 4 could appear if Jinke does not want to implement the use of the thumbwheel to operate the main menu.) The choice order could also be different.

1. main menu
2. page next/prev
3. link next/prev
4. Volume up/down

The current setting would be highlighted in the above list. If the user selected the up or down on the thumbwheel the hightlighted selection in the above list would change, either up or down as appropriate. If the user depressed the thumbwheel again the highlighted selection would be kept and remembered for future use of the up/down thumbwheel function.

This permits the current next/prev function, a replacement link next/prev function instead of the 9/0 keys above or allows adjustment of the volume control which is currently awkward for TTS and music.

MAIN MENU implementation using the thumbwheel.
Pushing the button down could also bring up the main menu if choice 1 is selected.

If the function to bring up the main menu is selected the main menu should appear as it does today and while it is one the screen the thumbwheel up/down functions should highlight entries on the main menu. And if one of those is highlighted and the user depresses the thumbwheel then that selection should be activated and the thumbwheel default choice should revert to nex/prev page. This feature permits almost total control from the thumbwheel as a alternate UI.

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Old 11-17-2009, 08:07 PM   #53
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Strange, it tells me the versions of the different components of the system, and lets me see which ones are different.

Hardly nothing...
Yeah but it does nothing to tell us what the changes ARE. Why can't this company be honest with us?

Why do they not give version histories like other companies do? Why was the quality control SO BAD before they released this reader? They HAD to know the LIT and HTML and other things weren't working. Why didn't they fix the problems before they started selling this? And why haven't they been fixed yet?

All in all, I am quite disappointed. It works, yes, but barely.
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Old 11-17-2009, 08:27 PM   #54
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All in all, I am quite disappointed. It works, yes, but barely.
Glass half empty / Glass half full
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Old 11-17-2009, 08:32 PM   #55
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Not at all. If we pay for a product, we can expect it to work. Like I say, I am keeping an eye on the updates and this forum. I am sure all the kinks will be worked out eventually, but they sure are taking time with something that should have been done long ago!
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Old 11-17-2009, 09:35 PM   #56
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Not at all. If we pay for a product, we can expect it to work.
My friend, you may not be able to see it, but it DOES work, quite acceptably well. I am thoroughly enjoying reading books on my PP. You don't need all the kinks worked out to do that.

I am not saying I don't want some things fixed, but it far exceeds the old 80/20 rule, and does the job it was sold to do.
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Not at all. If we pay for a product, we can expect it to work.
Never applied a Windows patch/update to your system?
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