Bookeen Cybook firmware 2.0 coming soon
By Paul Biba
From the Bookeen blog here is a listing of the new feature in the upcoming 2.0 firmware release. They don’t give a date, but say it will be coming soon.
Firmware 2.0: Adobe Digital Edition
- Support of Adobe Digital Edition epub and pdf files.
- Support of non DRMed epub and pdf files.
- Support of html, txt, jpeg, png, gif.
- 12 font sizes on all epub, txt, html files.
- Rotation of the page and Zoom from 50 to 100%.
- For pdf files: hyperlinks are now activated and the covers are displayed on the library page.
- Browsing mode: new interface presentation.
- Possibility to create your own folders.
- Possibility to speed-up the page turn by maintening the pressure on a page turn button (in library-mode and in a book).
- Possibility to zoom / change font size by pressing + or – (Cybook Gen3), by pressing menu and one of the page forward/backward button (Cybook Opus).
- Possibility to delete files by pressing delete button (Cybook Gen3), by going through the menu (Cybook Gen3 and Cybook Opus).
August 27th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
They’ve been promising this update “soon” since at least April 1st.
Several of the “improvements” they mention, the Cybook already does.
Other than that, it sounds good, doesn’t it? I’ll reserve my judgement until I see it in action.
August 27th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Oh.
I have to choose Adobe or Mobipocket. They aren’t allowing drm free epubs with the Mobipocket drm, and they aren’t allowing the drm free mobi files with Adobe.
Drm free epubs aren’t even affiliated with Adobe, seems like they could add that to the mobi drm option. But I guess that would be too easy.
At least I can switch back and forth.
“Because of a contractual matter beyond Bookeen, one device cannot support two different DRM simultaneoulsy.
Nevertheless, you will be able to switch from one firmware to another as much as you want, by installing one of the next firmware on your Cybook. The 2.0 will switch to Adobe DRM, the 1.5 will switch to Mobipocket.”
September 17th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
I’ve purchased the Bookeen Cybook Gen 3 from http://www.weltbild.de on Sept. 2009. It was delivered with firmware Rev. 1.9. As far as I can see Rev 1.9 supports already all features that are announced for Rev. 2.0 above. I can read DRM-free epubs e.g. from gutenberg.org as well as Adobe Digital Edition DRM epubs, purchased from http://www.weltbild-ebooks.de. Really great is the pdf-viewer. It supports portait an landscape orientation on the display as well as 180° rotation and zoom: 50% to 100% in 10% steps, fit page, fit height, fit width. I love it!. Negative: No support for Mobipocket prc files.