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Comment on iRiver Story – Fonts by spgennard

spgennard — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:39:26 +0000

You have some very good points. I am hopeful that later firmwares will have some of these fixed.

However as we have seen signals that a later model is on the cards the updates might be thin on the ground.

I am being to think I may well have made a bad choice with the iRiver Story, it sort of does the job but becomes annoying and fiddler to use as time goes by.

Ohh I wish it was fixed because I do like the form factor…. Please iRiver let the story continue….

Comment on iRiver Story – Fonts by bob hosk

bob hosk — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:19:27 +0000

I updated to the 1.61 and like the reflow and really dislike the corner zoom, but from a developers point of view, I understand the problems.

Most of mine ebooks are pdf, and if I can use reflow on them it really works nice, but there are really big problems.

Problems to consider:

1. The Zoom with the four steps, should be possible to customize in settings, so I would be able to have it on medium/sec.medium/high as my own customized standard.

2. Zoom in both versions does not work in landscape mode. Why?

3. The corner Zoom has to be easier in functionality, (sorry but to 80es software engineer loves his idea)

4. When I have a book on my SD card and read in it, the Story does not save my Reflow and Zoom settings, this means that i every time I read a book from my SD card have to inter the settings once more. (sorry but that’s really crappy)

5. Why does the Story not recognize any book in the book section when i only have my books on a SD card, should recognize them. (have my books on diffrent SD cards, categorized)
This means that each time re-inter another SD card it shall remember where i was in the book and what Reflow/zoom i had, otherwise it wont be real to call it an expansion possibility.

6. The Reflow display some pdf, very weird, exampled under:

Fred is fat and lives in a shel
ter while eating fish with his toes, and usually he sleeps with fresh herring under his pillow.
Unfortunate for the other resi
dents in the shelter, he is resisting any fish related arguments.

So it breaks the lines in some words, this is really not acceptable, please fix it.

7. Must agree with critics that it is cheap not to deliver a cover with the story.

8. There should be a possibility to set the story, to re-inter directly into the book you just read last time, so you dont have to g0 through the menu every time.

9. I can not bookmark pages in pdf’s.

10. Recent book, should be resent books, if you are reading several at the time.

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Comment on Olympic gold medallist Amy Williams by Alex Turner

Alex Turner — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:03:39 +0000

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Comment on iRiver Story Firmware upgrade v1.6.1 (update) by spgennard

spgennard — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:37:58 +0000

Most of the books I used on the iRiver Story are published by O’Reilly which happens to be DRM free. I have a couple of fiction books I wanted to buy, so I this week I will look into this and see what happens and drop you a line about my experiences.

Comment on iRiver Story Firmware upgrade v1.6.1 (update) by Mark P

Mark P — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:26:43 +0000

Hi, I was interested in your disucssion of firmware upgrades for Iriver Story. I have recently purcahsed one and now find that I can only download epub formats from the public domain. DRM epub formats don’t seem to be able be read by the ereader -though I can read them with Digital Edition on my PC ..but this is not the point. I have had response from Iriver yet and I was wondering if your forum has any advise to overcome this problem eg suitable firmware availble. Mark

Comment on iRiver Story – Fonts by spgennard

spgennard — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:22:35 +0000

Hi Ralf,

I am using Mac OS X v10.6.2 with no special drive installed.

Comment on iRiver Story – Fonts by Ralf Stephan

Ralf Stephan — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:34:53 +0000

Hello,
can you please tell me which MacOS you use? I just bought the Iriver Story and no drive icon appears when USB is connected. Is there anything you did like use special software?

Regards,
RS

Comment on iRiver Story Firmware upgrade v1.6.1 (update) by Anders Dahlqvist

Anders Dahlqvist — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:48:11 +0000

I have had the same problem as Ben for a week now. I’m not impressed.
http://blog.m3r.nl/personal/hacking-the-iriver-story-eb02-e-reader claims that it might be possible to boot from a SD-card. Seems like you need an older version of ebook.hex than the latest, though. Ben, is your device still frozen?

Comment on iRiver Story Firmware upgrade v1.6.1 (update) by Ben

Ben — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:17:51 +0000

Annoyingly the device now won’t go past the loading db please wait screen. All I can do is reset. When it’s plugged in there’s no chance to access the Story from a PC. It’ll sit there saying ‘charing battery’ all day. In fact it’s still charging from this morning. This is a bad experience!

Comment on iRiver Story Firmware upgrade v1.6.1 (update) by spgennard

spgennard — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:09:27 +0000

I feel installing firmwares is a very fraught business, I am glad you have managed to get it installed.

Comment on iRiver Story Firmware upgrade v1.6.1 (update) by Ben

Ben — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:58:31 +0000

Just to say it has finally restarted after resetting about twenty times. The firmware is installed, so my resetting was a coincidence.

Comment on iRiver Story Firmware upgrade v1.6.1 (update) by Ben

Ben — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:49:47 +0000

Sadly not. The device has certainly crashed.

I’ve tried resetting it, but no response. Same with the power button. It won’t connect to my PC or Mac either now. How can I restart it?

Comment on iRiver Story Firmware upgrade v1.6.1 (update) by spgennard

spgennard — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:41:53 +0000

That sounds like a very long time, it sounds like the device has crashed.

I sincerely hope you have managed to recover from failed upgrade.

Comment on iRiver Story Firmware upgrade v1.6.1 (update) by Ben

Ben — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:00:35 +0000

Hi
How long does this firmware upgrade take? My Story has been at it for two hours now.

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Comment on iriver story – firmware upgrade by spgennard

spgennard — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:25:59 +0000

Yes, it is a bit strange. I will have a look and see if I can find out why this is.

Comment on iriver story – firmware upgrade by anotherstory

anotherstory — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:34:19 +0000

i have only just got my story yesterday and updated the firmware today. one of the features that i really liked was the fact that i could enlarge the font. now i cannot do that. when i took the reflow off, some of the sentences were right at the top or bottom of the page and i couldn’t read them.
if anyone know how to enlarge the font with the reflow on, please let us know!

Comment on Converting .chm’s for reading on the iriver story by spgennard

spgennard — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:41:27 +0000

Thanks for the tip, I will try it out and see what happens!

Comment on Converting .chm’s for reading on the iriver story by Teddy

Teddy — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:20:47 +0000

Although I haven’t tried myself with chm files, apparantly CutePFD Writer (freeware) now supports 64-bit Windows 7. http://www.cutepdf.com