07-05-2009, 02:36 AM | #1 |
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Report on new firmware?
Can anyone who attended yesterday's get-together in Paris give us a report on the new Gen3 firmware. Did it actually show up? Are there separate versions for ePub and Mobi? What are the new features?
We are all eagerly waiting to find out... |
07-05-2009, 02:49 AM | #2 | |
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07-05-2009, 03:19 AM | #3 |
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OK, I'll try to give an overview.
The update that was available yesterday was for mobipocket. There will be from no on two separate releases: one for mobi and one for epub. They hope to be able to provide both of them at the same time on their website, but are reluctant to announce a release date because they've announced deadlines before and been unable to meet them (the delay has to do with some validation procedure from adobe for the epub version). The new mobi firmware has two new features : - folder support - a 'flip-through' feature. The folder support works as I imagined it would, you can navigate through a folder hierarchy and it supports muliple levels of nested folders. YGG said he would try to put 1500 books on his cybook so we'll soon know if there are limitations in the number of folders or books per folder. The 'flip-throuh' feature (I don't know how to call it better) allows to turn pages in a book (or in the library) quickly: if you press the next (or previous) page button and hold, the pages keep turning one by one, at a rate of one page per second approx. Very cool in my opinion. And finally, it the cybook seems slightly faster with this new firmware! The navigation in the menu is much faster, with the cursor moving almost immediately at keypress, and the word selection for dictionary lookup is also faster. Also, it seems that page turn speed may have been increased but I'm not quite sure about that: it seems that when you first turn a page it takes the usual time, but if you turn one just after it's quicker. So for flicking through it might be quicker but for normal reading it might be the same. |
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Thank you that is most interesting ....
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Update on my previous post:
See also the discussion about the meetup (in English) on the French forum: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50232 Also: - the delete button works; - dictionaries apparently no longer need to be in the eBooks folder to work (I placed mine in a eBooks/Dicos folder on the SD card and it works perfectly). |
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Thank you. Very useful.
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New firmware can be applied to older Cybooks? Or is there some limitations?
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07-05-2009, 04:13 AM | #8 |
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Any changes to the way margins and header/footer are displayed?
Dedicated button for dictionary lookup? Working links in pdfs? Any new features? Or the folder support is all they added? ( :frustration rising: ) Thank you. |
07-05-2009, 04:15 AM | #9 |
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MODS - can you merge all the details about the new firmware into this thread - I've seen 2 or 3 other threads answering these questions ...
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07-05-2009, 05:43 AM | #10 |
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Reading while charging?
Page numbers? Battery level while reading? Those are features they said would be in the next firmware. |
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I don't think they've ever said "page numbers", have they? The others, yes, I agree.
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Another thing that I think is new: the + and - buttons on the right now act as increase and decrease font size in mobi format (I don't think it was the case before). Their working seems to be a bit erratic though. |
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07-05-2009, 06:59 AM | #15 |
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Does it work on 64MB Cybooks as well, and if not, do they plan to release an upgrade for those?
Working Delete button? Why the plan to wait with releasing MOBI version at the same time as ePub version, if only ePub version is blocked by Adobe? |
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