TheGrum
March 30th, 2009, 03:07 PM
1. When the device is turned off, either manually, or via the timeout, it does not store the current file and page number. I've found it necessary to hit the back button before turning the device off to preserve this information.
2. Navigating in a document - when reading a document, the central button on the rocker does nothing - as this is the easiest and most convenient button to press, this should do the same thing as clicking down; i.e. act as a 'next' button.
3. I have experienced the same problem mentioned elsewhere on the forum, where a downward press sometimes feels like more than one thing 'clicked', in which case the screen flashes to black but ends up on the same page. I've found that this is less likely to occur when pressing 'right' instead, so I have taken to using 'Right' when in Portrait, and 'Down' (Left in Portrait) when in Landscape, so that I avoid pressing the actual down side of the rocker.
4. In the folder view, the + and - keys are unbound and do nothing. These could be used to move forward or back five or ten pages at a time, which would make navigating large directories easier.
5. I have found that it is very easy to accidentally press the 'Music' button when simply picking up the device, and pressing 'Back' from here does not return to the document but to the front screen. I would recommend that the Back button return to the document, which would make pushing the music button less of a pain, or alternatively, that a method be provided to disable this button entirely.
Finally, as a recommendation for anyone else using Linux, I proffer this short commandline for generating a readable pdf from an html file.
html2ps -g -n -S "BODY {font-family: Bookman; font-style: Bold; font-size: 22pt;} @page{margin-top: 0.1in; margin-left: 0.1in; margin-right: 0.1in; margin-bottom: 0.1in; }" -R "somehtmlfile.htm" | ps2pdf - result.pdf
Adjust the 22pt up or down depending on your eyesight, and replace somehtmlfile.htm and result.pdf with your own names.
Howard, the Grum
2. Navigating in a document - when reading a document, the central button on the rocker does nothing - as this is the easiest and most convenient button to press, this should do the same thing as clicking down; i.e. act as a 'next' button.
3. I have experienced the same problem mentioned elsewhere on the forum, where a downward press sometimes feels like more than one thing 'clicked', in which case the screen flashes to black but ends up on the same page. I've found that this is less likely to occur when pressing 'right' instead, so I have taken to using 'Right' when in Portrait, and 'Down' (Left in Portrait) when in Landscape, so that I avoid pressing the actual down side of the rocker.
4. In the folder view, the + and - keys are unbound and do nothing. These could be used to move forward or back five or ten pages at a time, which would make navigating large directories easier.
5. I have found that it is very easy to accidentally press the 'Music' button when simply picking up the device, and pressing 'Back' from here does not return to the document but to the front screen. I would recommend that the Back button return to the document, which would make pushing the music button less of a pain, or alternatively, that a method be provided to disable this button entirely.
Finally, as a recommendation for anyone else using Linux, I proffer this short commandline for generating a readable pdf from an html file.
html2ps -g -n -S "BODY {font-family: Bookman; font-style: Bold; font-size: 22pt;} @page{margin-top: 0.1in; margin-left: 0.1in; margin-right: 0.1in; margin-bottom: 0.1in; }" -R "somehtmlfile.htm" | ps2pdf - result.pdf
Adjust the 22pt up or down depending on your eyesight, and replace somehtmlfile.htm and result.pdf with your own names.
Howard, the Grum