New Cybook firmware update fixes some battery life problems, adds other wrinkles

Comments:

• Fred Kiesche says:

  June 26, 2008 at 11:04 am

  What “other wrinkles”????????? I didn’t see anything in the comments at MobileRead; there was one comment (somewhat cryptic) on the Bookeen Blog that implies something is wrong in reading Adobe Acrobat files…but no details.

  Anybody?
• David Rothman says:

  June 26, 2008 at 6:44 pm

  Hi, Fred. From the Bookeen blog:

  “Build 708 will fix that regression and also provide you with the whole version of firmware 1.1 with a little plus: hyphenation support in mobipocket files. Also, the author’s name will now appear in the header of your book if indicated in the book’s description.”

  http://bookeen.blogspot.com/

  HTH

  Thanks,
  David
• Fred Kiesche says:

  June 27, 2008 at 11:39 am

  Saw that, generally “other wrinkles” means “more problems”, so I was wondering if new bugs had been added.
• David Rothman says:

  June 27, 2008 at 11:44 am

  Well, Fred, here’s one Issue. I still can’t read books from the Fairfax County Public library on my Cybook loaner from Bookeen even though I did the later upgrade. Perhaps I did something wrong. I’d love to hear from other people to see if they still have problems with the Cybook displaying books from OverDrive’s library service. I intend to check into this and get a more definitive answer. I’m also having problems right now with OverDrive working with my Palm TX. Oh, the joys of DRM!

  Even if it is my fault, I shouldn’t have to subject myself to all this torture. Library e-books should just work.

  If Amazon ever does libraries, which I suspect it might someday, it could MURDER OverDrive with a smooth, well-integrated solution. In fact I wonder if Mobi’s library-related flaws are still there partly because Amazon wants to muscle in on OverDrive’s business eventually.

  For now, I notice, OverDrive seems to focus mainly on Adobe books. I wonder why Not that Adobe is a DRM paragon!

  Thanks,
  David