Factory wants me to poll for firmware upgrade

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Add a decent, persistant zoom that can be used on images, such as scanned PDFs that are images of the scanned pages.

[citac]

Originally Posted by theducks

Outstanding idea

I don't mind the AT&T tru-voice but I never bothered to suggest it,
because it was Expensive to add to a product that was pushing the comfort price point.

Designing the product to accept a paid add-on voice (sold separately as an upgrade) is a Brilliant (and a money maker) idea that adds almost nothing to the base cost..

I would also like you to keep TTS, especially if it's a more human-sounding voice, and if it can be done without any extra cost (or if the cost is not too much). I get motion sickness and reading only makes it worse, so I listen to music, but it would be great if I could listen to my books.

[KarenH]

Originally Posted by theducks

Delete, move,copy (like Lbook has)
and the ability to purge a (wrongly opened) book from the Recently read list. (Lbook)

Lit that does not freeze up.

[Chiron]

Originally Posted by Blossom

I second the delete option and maybe add a option to turn off the clock for those of us who don't even use it.

Done

[Acreo Aeneas]

These three I feel are most important to a FW upgrade:

Add CoolReader, without severe battery drain!
- since we are so comfortable with CoolReader, then it should be, but without the horrendous battery life

Latest version of FB2
- seeing how popular FB2 is becoming, I think it's long overdue that we get a update so the latest version is supported

LIT is still not right, can you please get LIT to work
- why advertise and list in the specs that LIT (non-DRM) is supported when it breaks 99% of the time? If you list it, then it should work, no excuses.

The rest is just fluff and gravy (or maybe for another FW patch later on).

[DaleDe]

Originally Posted by Acreo Aeneas

These three I feel are most important to a FW upgrade:

Add CoolReader, without severe battery drain!
- since we are so comfortable with CoolReader, then it should be, but without the horrendous battery life

Latest version of FB2
- seeing how popular FB2 is becoming, I think it's long overdue that we get a update so the latest version is supported

LIT is still not right, can you please get LIT to work
- why advertise and list in the specs that LIT (non-DRM) is supported when it breaks 99% of the time? If you list it, then it should work, no excuses.

The rest is just fluff and gravy (or maybe for another FW patch later on).

Actually I would expect the new Cool Reader to do the latest FB2 just fine so that one doesn't really need adjusting IMHO. I was surprised they added it as a choice. Now getting the latest ADE is another matter.

Dale

[cloggy]

Originally Posted by DaleDe

lBook is an official product from Jinke and has the same MOBI and ADE support as other Jinke products.

Dale

..if that is true, then the requested "file management" functions can easily be implemented. What could be the reason that the other OEM resellers haven't it implemented yet? Is this an exclusive agreement between Lbook and Jinke?

[Dave_S]

Originally Posted by cloggy

..if that is true, then the requested "file management" functions can easily be implemented. What could be the reason that the other OEM resellers haven't it implemented yet? Is this an exclusive agreement between Lbook and Jinke?

Actually Lbook is a reseller just like Astak. They buy their hardware from Jinke just like Astak does. The BIG difference is that they also get the SDK from Jinke/Hanlin and do value added development on the basic Jinke/Hanlin baseline. That is probably why a lot of the newer features show up from Lbook first. The more popular features do eventually make their way back into the Jinke SDK, and then the resale only vendors will have those features too. For example, the clock function seems to have happened that way. I would be willing to bet that the Lbook "file management" will eventually show up in the Astak rebranded firmware too.

From what I have seen on the-ebook.org it seems that the newest Jinke SDK has had the excess battery consumption bug resurface, and that seems apparent from the last Astak firmware update and several of the Buggins CoolReader snapshots built on that SDK. Lbook seems to have already fixed the problem on their end since their 0622 firmware no longer has the bug, so hopefully the fix should probably be in the next firmware build that the other vendors get from Jinke/Hanlin. The new SDK still has a few bugs that would be nice to get rid of before Jinke/Hanlin sends out new firmware to Astak and the other resellers.

[bbqncigars]

Another vote for file management here.


Wayne

[jusmee]

Originally Posted by Acreo Aeneas

Add CoolReader, without severe battery drain!
- since we are so comfortable with CoolReader, then it should be, but without the horrendous battery life
.

Why do you equate Coolreader with battery drain? Evidence would seem to be that the battery drain problem is in the original Jinke software, and not, apparently, caused by lbook adding new versions of Coolreader.

[Freeshadow]

another one:
let all aps in the firmware use the same addon font dir (so that bookshelf fonts don't only work from SD) rename the said directory from "fonts" to ".fonts" since it doesn't need to be visible in the bookshelf.

(since its a linux device predotted names are usually hidden)

[Davimee]

I've noticed a couple people mention they'd like to see a newer version of ADE... I didn't realize there are other versions of that. What is different about it? The reason I ask is because I've started using CoolReader more often, simply because of the status bar with the name of the book, the time, and progress. But I much prefer the formatting of ADE. Would the newer version of ADE have an option like that? If it does, I'd rather see that than newer version of CoolReader. If that was the case, my choices would be to update ADE, and have some sort of file management system.

[fjtorres]

Originally Posted by Davimee

I've noticed a couple people mention they'd like to see a newer version of ADE... I didn't realize there are other versions of that.

There is supposed to be a new version of ADE coming "REAL.SOON.NOW" that offers support for B&N password-based DRM as well as the "classic" ADEPT DRM. That would allow reading DRM'ed ebooks from Nook or the various B&N eReader apps on iPhone, PC, etc on the EZReader.

[JSWolf]

I checked other because of something important left off ot the poll.

When people mention readers and what features they want, something usually gets left out. What we really need is proper typography. That means kerning support and hyphenation support. No ADE implementation has proper typography. So when you have full justification, you can easily have lines with large spaces between words or in the case of left justification, you get short lines. Also, with kerning support, words will just look better if the font being used has kerning i nformation built-in.

So please, don't ignore typography for other less useful features. We need typography more then we need FB2. Until we get proper typography, we will not have eBooks math the look/feel of paper books no matter how good ink becomes.

[Davimee]

Originally Posted by fjtorres

There is supposed to be a new version of ADE coming "REAL.SOON.NOW" that offers support for B&N password-based DRM as well as the "classic" ADEPT DRM. That would allow reading DRM'ed ebooks from Nook or the various B&N eReader apps on iPhone, PC, etc on the EZReader.

Ok, thank you. That makes sense.