PocketBook added a high speed page turning feature to FBReader that really makes the pages refresh fast, especially with full
page update turned off.
Not exact matches
So developers created web platforms and systems to
turn all of those static web
pages into connected, dynamic sites that could be
updated, edited and managed centrally and distributed globally.
Wireless cards helped the Food and Water Watch folks write from the road, letting them
turn out a constant stream of blog posts, Facebook
updates, Tweets and Flickr photos, all displayed on a central hub on the group's website (now serving as an archive
page).
UPDATE:
Turns out, this Facebook post was not from Meryl Streep herself but an unofficial fan
page.
The
page turns seem snappy to me after the
update, nearly instant.
B&N has optimized the e-ink
update method to not require the full - screen «blink» that the Kindle does on every
page -
turn, but the promo videos are misleading: the Nook does fully blink, but only on every sixth
page -
turn.
Kobo has directly told us that all of these problems and issues are going to be fixed in a future firmware
update, other than the
page turn speeds.
The
Page turns on this device are lightning fast and only increase with some of the latest firmware
updates.
It concerns with all screen operations:
updating,
page turns,
page navigation etc..
Considered a major
update, the company says that version 1.5 of the firmware «will dramatically increase» the
page -
turn speeds of the Nook 3G and Nook Wi - Fi and deliver additional feature and performance enhancements.
We got an early look at the
update and were able to compare
page -
turn speeds of a Nook running the older 1.4 firmware to a Nook with the new firmware installed and the
page turns are significantly faster (company reps said «50 percent faster»).
Page turn speeds are far faster than when the Nook originally shipped and even from previous software
updates.
Kobo has just launched a new firmware
update (4.8.10956) for all of their e-readers that increases the speed of your
page -
turns with a new rendering engine.
Then I got an Aura One... I was dismayed with the PDF speed when I got it but found that there was an
update available — PDF text is sub 1 second
page turn now, and image heavy PDF is 1 - 2 seconds, compared to 3 + seconds it was.
I think you will want to
update this
page because the WPandigital has a new firmware
update that essentially
turns it into a limited tablet computer.
This
update also allows you to organize categories better, faster
page turns, enhancements for PDF viewing and more.
They also released a new commercial yesterday to promote the Nook and today we see the firmware
update details on a new Web Brower, games and faster
page turns.
While some features like
page turn and loading speed were fast enough to impress, the standard features of the
update are fairly simple, including a bug fix or two.
The moment I
turned the final
pages of the Author's Note I hopped lickety - split to Mary Doria Russell's website, where she had announced the same day a sequel to Doc, entitled Epitaph, will be released early 2015: Epitaph
update: bad news, good news And she's committed to writing a novel about Edgar Allen Poe.
The
update as well will give you faster
page turns and give you some new items under the color touch screen interface.
Amazon say that the Kindle has been
updated, bringing smoother fonts and faster
page turns.
The 32 GB Kindle also boasts 33 % faster
page -
turns, but the press release seems to indicate that's because of a software
update that will be coming to all current Kindles soon.
An
updated design for the home screen arranges apps nicely by the sounds of it, and speed — which has always been an issue with the Nook — is improved, with faster
page turns and a general zippiness all «round.
Although the description of the
update is limited to «general software improvements,» it appears to speed up
page turns and menu navigation — two areas which were notably sluggish.
Other
updates include sharing reading awards with Reading Life on Facebook, as well as highlighted passages, and another option was added to the advanced settings menu for
turning on and off the small
page numbers that sometimes appear in the margins of some ePub ebooks.
The
update also improves
page turn speed and search, plus adds crisper and sharper text.
Update: Both sets of
page buttons do work if you enable
page turns with volume buttons in the Kindle app settings, and then again in the main Icarus settings menu, located in User Defined settings.
My Nook
turns pages as fast (maybe faster now with this latest 1.3
update) as any other eInk device.
I'm wondering if the problems my Kobo seems to be having with the battery — it's running down again, after 100 or so
page turns and hours of charging with the red light never coming on — might be addressed in a firmware
update.
As the airplane started to gain altitude and I
paged though «The Waste Lands [The Dark Tower III]» I noticed that some lines didn't
update as I
turned the
pages.
The moment your reader
turn the final
page is the perfect time to ask them to join your mailing list for more
updates!
If you're ready to publish your Author
Page,
turn on the «Published» check box and then click the «
Update» button.
B&N has been working on this, and the latest
update includes even more improvements, such as faster
page turns.
The Nook Simple Touch eReader will receive and
update in the very near future which will speed up
page turns by 25 percent and extend the battery life.
Inside, the Kobo has an
updated processor - the Freescale i.MX508 - which the company says boosts the speed of
page turns, and it has 1 GB of internal storage and a microSD card slot of up to 32 GB of removable storage.
Amazon's previous - generation entry - level Kindle e-reader is seeing a few modest
updates, including 15 percent faster
page turns, new fonts, and crisper text.
Enjoy Chess and Sudoku, Faster
Page Turns, Enhanced Home Screen and More on
Updated NOOK Software Now Available
For folks that don't know Amazon has issued an
update for the Touch (5.0.3) which seems to speed up
page turns a bit and may fix other issues if you've been having any.
I am not planning on returning my k3 due to the
page turns, but I sure hope a firmware
update can fix the problem!
Other
updates NOOK customers will enjoy with v1.3 software include: · Reading experience: To help customers get to their content conveniently and quickly, Barnes & Noble has continued to optimize NOOK's performance with improved
page turn speed, faster access to previously opened eBooks, enhanced color touch screen navigation and more.
There are also big
updates coming to both devices, including over 100 improvements for the Nook Color, and faster
page turning and sharper text for the Simple Touch.
Amazon has
updated it entire tablet and e-reader line, and the new, basic, iconically - named Kindle runs just $ 79 to start, and ships with touchscreen controls and twice the storage of the previous generation, plus a faster processor for quicker
page turns.
These new devices — the Kindle Fire HDs, as well as the Kindle Paperwhite — represent the first
update to the Kindle line since September 2011, when Amazon debuted the $ 199 Kindle Fire tablet and three Kindle e-readers: The Kindle Touch 3G, the $ 99 Kindle Touch, and the $ 79 Kindle with physical
page -
turning buttons.
With NOOK's 1.5
update,
page turns are now quite rapid on both NOOK and Kindle.
The main change with the
update is the addition of an enhanced
page -
turn feature that lets you quickly flip through
pages.
You can customize the appearance of menus, the interface font, text rendering, and set how often you want full
page update when
turning pages.
She says that Pixel Qi's displays are actually more readable than e-paper, with «excellent reflectance, high resolution for text, sunlight readability» — just as easy on the eyes when the backlighting is
turned off, but with the key advantages of full color and fast refresh, for
pages that
update as fast as video.
Like the Nook Touch, it is set to
update the entire
page once every six
page -
turns by default.
Actually there are two other ereading programs you can load onto the PocketBook 360 as well, CoolReader and FBReader 180, an
updated version of FBReader with more features, including wrist
turns, which uses the accelerometer to
turn pages by twisting the PocketBook 360 with your hand.
It's a bit hard to describe what's really innovative about the way the format
updates «
page turns» for touchscreens, but this quote comes close: «dynamic panel transitions and captions or dialogue boxes -LSB-...] appear sequentially on an image at the prompting of the reader.»