I broke it!

I decided to give OpenInkpot a try on my BeBook. OpenInkpot is a custom 3rd party firmware which works on all of the Hanlin clones, of which the BeBook is one.

Being me, I chose to load the 'experimental' version instead of the 'released and stable version,' just because I like to be bleeding edge when I can and I love all the new features. This does increase my chances of 'breaking' the firmware, which I did. I'll admit that I LOVE bookmarks, early firmware on my Cybook taught me to bookmark often and I learned well. I tend to place a bookmark every 10-20 pages or so just to be sure if anything happens I can get back fairly close to where I left off. This kind of backfired on me with the OpenInkpot pre-0.2 20090326 snapshot. I did my usual multiple bookmarks per book, well over the 'standard 5-8' that Hanlin firmware usually provides. There were no error messages, but somewhere after 7 bookmarks I stopped being able to see the bookmark list. In fact it froze my poor BeBook and I had to reset. I was able to duplicate this error in another eBook and shot off an error report to OpenInkpot. I'm sure they will include that fix in the next update.

Why did I try OpenInkpot instead of staying with the BeBook firmware? Well, I wanted smaller fonts and OpenInkpot provides that. With Version 0.2 I also get most of the features that I was use to with the BeBook firmware. I Love this firmware and will continue to use it, with fewer bookmarks, until BeBook comes out with their next release, then I'll have to jump back and try it out.

Bookshelf Navigation:

	back/forward page
1-8	open Nth file ( long press the key to choose the bookreader ) / go to the Nth directory
9/0	back/forward page
+	context menu (pressing + then 1 opens context menu for first file on screen, + then 2 for second, etc.)
<-	exit menu or go to parent directory if no menu is open
OK	open main menu

Mobipocket eBooks use FBReader with these commands:

	back/forward page
1	move back
2	go to page...
long pressed 2	toggle status line
3	set bookmark
long pressed 3	show bookmarks (long press bookmark number to delete in bookmarks list)
4/5	back/forward section
6	cycle through the footnotes on the current page
7	table of contents
8	hyperlink navigation mode / jump to the highlighted hyperlink
long pressed 8	search text
9/0	back/forward page
+/-	change font size
<-	exit to bookshelf
OK	settings

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