01-09-2008, 12:58 PM | #1 |
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Shipping date updated on Bookeen website
Booken now states that shipment of new units will start in week 4. I guess this means that they are still alive.
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01-09-2008, 06:26 PM | #2 |
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I wonder if they will be shipping the items missing from last months shipments (cases, batteries) during that week? Has anyone received the missing battery yet?
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01-10-2008, 04:34 AM | #3 |
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I have noticed you have got both 505 and CyBook. What is your opinion? How do you compare them? |
01-10-2008, 07:36 AM | #4 | |
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I like the CyBook for use with MobiPocket books and dictionary support, but I don't like the cheap construction. Also Bookeen has been very unresponsive. I've sent them several emails and haven't received any answers. (I haven't had reason to email Sony so I don't know if they are any better at responding) |
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01-10-2008, 07:41 AM | #5 | |
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This is a benefit if you have several books "on the go" at once, although it would be nice if there were a configuration item to choose what happened at power-on. |
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01-10-2008, 07:52 AM | #6 |
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Frequently it takes me multiple key presses because my Cybook keeps forgetting where I was in a book a lot of times.
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01-10-2008, 07:57 AM | #7 |
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01-10-2008, 08:11 AM | #8 | |
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I have yet to let my Cybook go below 60% charge, so it's definitely not losing its teeny tiny little mind because of the battery going flat. I love most other things about it (though I'm starting to cringe everytime someone asks about landscape mode and I have to say "no, not yet, probably in a future firmware update") but this losing-my-place issue is really, really annoying. (None of which changes the fact that I've read more books in the past few couple of weeks since my Cybook arrived than I've read in a comparable time period since I was in, oh, high school...) |
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01-10-2008, 09:17 AM | #9 |
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One key press but it goes through two screens before you get to the library. Sony starts at the last page, no startup screens.
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01-10-2008, 09:46 AM | #10 |
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But that's just because the Sony doesn't switch off, of course. If you disable auto-shutdown on the Gen3, it'll behave just the same!
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01-10-2008, 09:47 AM | #11 |
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01-10-2008, 09:51 AM | #12 |
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Mine lasts about 4 to 5 days with autoshutdown turned off.
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01-10-2008, 12:40 PM | #13 |
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The only time my Cybook forgot where I was in the book was when my SD card was playing up, otherwise it was fine, i tend just to switch it off from where I am reading, I don't go back to the library then switch off.
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01-10-2008, 02:15 PM | #14 |
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I'm curious why some people experience the problem with loosing the page and others not. I don't use a SD card and I have only .prc files on the Cybook.
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01-10-2008, 04:32 PM | #15 | |
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Fixing the bookshelf organization and the last-read-page are two of the big "musts" on my Cybook wishlist. But, frankly, what I really want is an eInk-screen device with a hardware and software interface inspired by the eBookwise-1150. I can live without the touch-screen (though it would be nice) and the backlighting (since I've found a perfectly satisfactory booklight, though having it integrated or as a low-profile optional accessory designed just for the device would be nice) but I really miss the page buttons, inverting screen (to switch from right to left handed book holding & paging), and collection management of the EB-1150. I miss the perfect last-read-page recall even more. |
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