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12-21-2009 09:44 AM
Just now got the update - initial perceptions:
1) Dracula - - as some were noting, this book could take up to...um...INFINITY...to get done formatting. It took just under two minutes post update - FAR from great, but I guess it's tolerable - they get no points over the Kindle or Sony, but I can live with it...is this two minute time NORMAL.
2) Dracula - - fonts...I can now change to Medium font without incurring the infinite formatting times.
3) Bookmarks -- in at least one book I bought from BN, attempting to create a bookmark crashed me back to the flower page...now I can create a bookmark (just wish I could NAME them)
4) Page turning - - I can't believe this is just perception - it seems like the use of the touch pad to turn pages is MUCH better, and turning pages in either way seems faster.
Assuming I get no crashes in the next few hours, I might be willing to keep this thing.
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12-21-2009 09:54 AM
I guess the posting of release notes by B&N to tell us what all the new release entails is a little too much to ask for.
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12-21-2009 10:00 AM
I posted this in another thread but I will repeat it here:
My nook is much faster after the update. A little faster in its page turns, but it's mostly in the LCD responsiveness where I see improvements.
HOWEVER, I have two big complaints:
1) How in the bloody h*ll is "My Documents" ordered now? It used to be by author, but now there is no discernable pattern to it. What the heck?
2) My nook is still unable to distinguish between my two volumes of F. Scott Fitzgerald short stories. Digital Support implied that this would be fixed by the update. They also implied that the same bug was responsible for some people getting only a sample instead of the full eBook in cases where they bought the full book after browsing the sample. If this update fixed the sample problem, then what's still causing the hangup with my nook and its confusion over multi-volume sets?
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12-21-2009 10:29 AM
page turns are definitely signficantly improved. very happy with that. It may still be SLIGHTLY slower than the kindle 2 with the lastest update but we are talking fractions of a second now.
dracula does seem to take an innordinate amount of time to format. every other book i have formats in 5-10 seconds so i'm not sure what is going on with that.
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12-21-2009 10:39 AM
My free copy of "Dracula" takes only 9 seconds to format. (Yes, I just counted.)
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12-21-2009 12:02 PM
Dracula opens quickly for me, the new update is awesome!
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12-21-2009 05:10 PM
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12-21-2009 06:04 PM
pepino, B&N did post the content of the update, here under "What's new in v1.1":
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/support/?cds2Pi