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

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?

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

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

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