06-23-2010, 01:15 PM | #1 |
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Bookeen releases firmware upgrade
Bookeen have released new firmware for their popular CyBook Gen3 and CyBook Opus range. As has been the case with recent Bookeen firmware, there are two versions available: 2.1, supporting Adobe ADE DRM, and 1.6, supporting Mobipocket DRM. The new firmware can be downloaded from:
http://www.bookeen.com/en/supportdownload/ The full list of new and revised features is: Instant Reading * Cybook can be switched on/off in 1 second, keeping last read page open. * Note 1: works on all 400 MHz Cybooks (Gen3 v3, Gen3 – Gold Edition and all Opus’). * Note 2: in this mode, device is actually in deep-sleep mode (very low power consumption). Shutdown * “Shutdown” option now available from “Advanced…” menu. * On 400 MHz Cybooks, one can press the power off button for 2 seconds. * On 200 MHz Cybooks, power off button behaves as usual. * Note: when shut down, Cybook will display a blank screen with a “switched-off” icon. 9 new user interface languages for a total of 23 languages * New: Danish, Croatian, Hungarian, Portuguese, Romanian, Turkish, Slovak, Chinese simplified & Chinese traditional. * User interface is now available in a total of 23 languages: Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Slovak, Slovenian, Chinese simplified & Chinese traditional. * Note: to be able to select a Chinese user interface, a Chinese font must be present in the “Fonts” directory. Chinese/Japanese/Korean and other international content in “Library” * Support for Chinese, Japanese & Korean (CJK) file names and metadata. * Non Latin/Greek/Cyrillic text will automatically be rendered using another user supplied font (“Fonts” directory). * Note: works for all left-to-right languages. Accelerometer shortcut (Cybook Opus) Accelerometer can be enabled/disabled with “Menu” + “Enter” shortcut. Side buttons (Cybook Opus) Side buttons can be flipped (“Advanced…” menu), allowing one hand page turns with thumb on lower button (portrait modes only). Improvement (Cybook Gen3 Gold Edition) * Lower power consumption in suspend modes. * Faster pagination mode. USB activity (400MHz Cybooks only) LED now blinks during USB transfers. Bug fix (Cybook Opus) Under some circumstances, accelerometer would stay in suspend mode and would not unlock until deactivated and reactivated. Localization fixes Corrections in Finnish & Spanish user interface. Latest features (version 2.1 only) Table of Contents (ePub/PDF/FB2) Complete TOC now displayed, including potential multi-levels. Improvement (TXT) * New heuristics to process text. * Specifically, Gutenberg Project texts will now be rendered better and faster. * Also, now accepts any text encoding. Improvement (FB2) Hyperlinks & metadata support. Fix (bug in version 2.0) ePub & PDF metadata handling corrected in “Library”. Fix (bug in version 2.0) Lower memory consumption with large font files. Latest features (version 1.6 only) Mobipocket dictionaries * Faster accesses in “Lookup” mode. * Note: dictionaries must be located at the root of folder “eBooks”. |
06-23-2010, 01:50 PM | #2 |
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Still no bookmarks for ePub?
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06-23-2010, 02:36 PM | #3 |
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And all us Gen3 v1 early adopters groan.
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06-23-2010, 02:41 PM | #4 |
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What was bookeen supposed to do ?
Keep from putting functions onto the opus, or new gen3 because the older ones won't stand it ? Yeah, my gen3 still don't have sleep mode. But at least my opus do. |
06-23-2010, 04:05 PM | #5 | |
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With my old 200MHz Gen3 there's absolutely no reason to install 1.6 update because it seems to change nothing for me. I would install it to have TXT handle encodings, but strangely enough, they only added that in ePub firmware. |
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06-23-2010, 04:07 PM | #6 |
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06-23-2010, 05:22 PM | #7 |
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... and still not sold in Canada.
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06-24-2010, 04:12 AM | #10 |
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Thanks for the heads up Harry. Just got it installed on my Gen 3 and so far working perfectly.
As someone who often gets interrupted while reading, the instant on mode is very cool. Should save a lot of reboots. |
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06-24-2010, 12:39 PM | #15 | |
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http://www.bookeen.com/en/resellers/ Without some sort of dealer presence, no one will ever hear about the product except died-in-the-wool extreme e-bookies. Amazon can get away with this being Amazon (and they have a Canadian edition of their website and a large installed based of customers). Bookeen needs to be in "real" stores to be seen and considered. There are lots of stores similar to Best Buy that it ought to be in. |
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