{"id":484,"date":"2010-01-17T12:50:46","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T11:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/?p=484"},"modified":"2010-01-17T12:50:46","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T11:50:46","slug":"review-iriver-story-firmware-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/review-iriver-story-firmware-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of iRiver Story firmware update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since installing the latest firmware update aka version 1.5. \u00a0 I have experience the odd issue but as I have tried to be analytical about what issues I see.<\/p>\n<p>I have been lucky enough to be reading a couple of books from O&#8217;Reilly which deliver their eBooks in multiple formats, as the iRiver supports both ePub and PDF. \u00a0I have chosen to install both versions of the same book, so if I experience a issue with one I can flip to the other.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what I have found so far:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reading of PDF seems to be the most reliable<\/li>\n<li>Reading of ePub documents seems to very slow in comparison<\/li>\n<li>PDF reading can be pain with small text, reflow helps but destroys technical book formats that has embedded code in it<\/li>\n<li>Battery life is much better<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have had a couple of crashes\/hangs of the iRiver but so far it has only been with ePub files. \u00a0So guess what&#8230; I will be avoiding them like the plague.<\/p>\n<p>Has other people had the similar issues?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since installing the latest firmware update aka version 1.5. \u00a0 I have experience the odd issue but as I have tried to be analytical about what issues I see. I have been lucky enough to be reading a couple of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/review-iriver-story-firmware-update\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,14,15,25],"tags":[53,55,235,99,107,215,222],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}