I've yet to encounter any FB2 format books, but I'll grab one from the site you linked and take a photo or two as soon as I can.

Borders bookshops in the UK are selling the Cool-ER as is Argos, which is where I purchased mine from, rather than via their website. If you look around you might find some regional shops near you selling the Cool-ER
No such luck in Netherlands, I'm afraid. Stores like Media Markt have the usual suspects like Sony, but I want FB2 support.

Borders seems to ship to EU, and the price is a little less than the EU price, so I might try that - once I'm happy with the FB2 support.

Cheers!
As requested, you can see a couple of images of a FB2 file here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ajwrightuk/3966075565/sizes/o/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ajwrightuk/3966081481/sizes/o/

The FB2 file I tried doesn't seem to have any built in font specification like PDF and other files have so it seems to use your reader font settings. You can specify one of 3 fonts, and choose from 8 sizes.

I've taken the photos with the default font/size I use but if you'd prefer to see a file with it any bigger/smaller let me know.
Thanks for the photos - looks good. I like the silver device, but that one seems to be the most popular colour, although all colours are sold out at the moment (Pre-Order only).

What kind of setting options do you have with FB2 - any chance of seeing the menu? Can you select various fonts, sizes and so on in FB2 (because I really hate arial!)?

Do you mind if I send you a nicely formatted FB2 for you to try - no need to post pics, you can just tell me if you like how it displays or if there is a problem. I'll PM you.

Lastly, what kind of battery life are you usually getting. With my BeBook I can easily go a week (5-7 days) before thinking about a recharge, and that usually means the battery is down to half or 1/4. This is with a normal reading load - if I really spend the day reading it shortens a little, but I can still go for days like that before even thinking about the battery.

I was a little annoyed yesterday when I saw a mobileread interview of the German developers of the upcoming Txtr device, and he asked about the battery life, stating most devices had poor performance until the recent Sonys. I take real exception to this kind of comment, and it happens often on these forums, which are very Kindle- and Sony-centric. He was comparing it to the iLiad battery life, which is crap (~4 hours use). But this kind of comment really shows a lack of consideration of the other alternative devices that are out there. And is just incorrect. I am keen to see the new Txtr device, and will compare it to my excellent BeBook for things like battery life, readability, usability etc.
[/rant]

Thanks again!
Feel free to send me over a file you'd like me to try out, I'll pm you my e-mail address if you'd rather send it directly.

I'll get a shot of the font menu tonight so you can see how that works.

What I found oddest about the Txtr device is that with all the formats it supports, and a name like that, it apparently doesn't support txt files!

I've not really experimented with battery life, my reading time varies wildly from day to day, but I heard that lithium-polymer batteries survive longer when they're charged more frequently compared to when they're run down to nothing routinely, so I've been charging it every few nights. The battery hasn't been going down very fast in that time.
In the news thread we had several pictures posted of real life Cool-ers that people bought.

See:


http://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...hlight=Cool-er

some of the purple one:

http://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...Cool-er&page=4


Amy
[QUOTE=orwell2k;609446]No such luck in Netherlands, I'm afraid. Stores like Media Markt have the usual suspects like Sony, but I want FB2 support.

Hi,

In the Netherlands you can buy it at bol.com, here is the link:

http://www.bol.com/nl/l/elektronica/e-readers/N/7894+5260+1283+1285+7373/No/10/index.html

greetings Sandra
Golly, those are expensive on BOL! It is a nice, fast hardware, but this is REALLY too much!

I love my Cool-er after the firmware update. I had the no bootup issue, too and succeeded to upgrade my Cool-er successfully. Handling those three buttons (Ok, third side button and reset) is a bit of a challenge, but it worked out nicely. I discovered a nice aside bonus, btw. if you have a Sony=Ericsson handy (with the mini USB-plug) you can use that loader to reload your Cool-er battery while still being able to read. I like that!

By the way, the Cool-er is going now to the last read book, when you turn it on.

I did not have a lot of success with the FB2 files, btw. They might be readable, but I really didn't care too much about them. RTF was not something I will upload there either. I have now mostly epubs on my reader (I have scaled those up to 130%) and they are just displaying greatly. So are the reflow PDFs (I read only text PDFs, no technical stuff) and the PRC/Mobi are a good alternative (those are displayed without cover but fine otherwise)

I would love to have a bigger base font size (16pt?) on the epubs in a future FW update, though!
I want that feature! I'm hoping for a quick turn around on my first cool-er when I manage to remember to post it off for them to repair.

I don't dare do the F/W upgrade on my second unit now until I've got the first one back so I'll at least have one working e-reader.
Here are some shots of a formatted FB2 book and the font layout menu

Font Selection Screen

NTX New Font

Georgia Font

Courier Font

After I took these shots I noticed the ghosting of the menu on the page. This goes after you turn the page the first time after being back in the book from the Menu. The shots make it look more intrusive than it is due to the flash.