Just wanted to say thank you for breaking that barrier. I've got a 4GB
card on its way to me. The freedom of having hours and hours of audiobooks
on my BP is astounding in and of itself.
Bruce
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On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, ROB MEREDITH wrote:
> Chris and others:
>
> I am waiting to find out if 4GB is the top for the card size, or if it
> is unlimited. We will know soon. You may safely assume that it is at
> least 4GB at this time, as we have tested with this size.
>
> Other than the new file sizes I mentioned in a previous message, 16MB
> for text and 4GB for audio, and the new level commands, not much has
> changed. It doesn't seem like much, but the size breakthroughs were
> major changes which took a lot of time.
>
> Rob Meredith
>
> > > > chris.BP.FL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 01/17/06 01:11PM >>>
> hello rob meredith,
>
> you seem to know more about the beta firmware 2.1.0.22 than said in
> beta
> "what's new".
> can you tell us about the maximum capacity of CF, is it "no issue
> anymore"
> or 4GB or maybe still 2?.
> and what is your comment on the post "[bookport] Summary of new beta
> features (January 2006) - emai7s" in this list?
>
> Chris Sauer.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of ROB MEREDITH
> Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 15:21
> To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bookport] Re: Book Port Firmware Beta 2.1.0.22
>
> Brian:
>
> 1. The new firmware is compatible with old index files. Resending
> should not be necessary.
>
> 2. The maximum file size for text files is 16MB, and the maximum file
> size for MP3 files is 4GB.
>
> 3. I don't think page navigation speeds have been improved. If this is
> still a problem, let us know.
>
> Rob Meredith
>
> > > > buhrow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 01/13/06 06:32PM >>>
> Helo Robert. Here are a couple of questions which might seem
> obvious,
> but I'll put them out there none the less.
>
> 1. I'm assuming the new firmware is backward compatible with the old
> index
> formats, right? That is, I don't need to resend material to the
> Bookport
> which is already there just because I update the firmware, right?
>
> 2. What are file size limitations now for text and audio files? Can
> we
> assume that the 4GB file size limit which applies to files in the
> FAT32
> filesystem is the limiting factor now?
>
> 3. In older versions of the firmware, text files with a lot of pages
> would
> cause the Bookport to get slower and slower when querying for the
> current
> page number with the 0 key as you read further and further into the
> file. I
> always assumed that this was because Bookport was scanning the index
> file
> to get the page count each time it was asked. With the 4MB file size
> limitation now gone in the latest beta firmware, it seems likely that
> documents
> with more pages would become more common. Does this new firmware
> perform
> page counting faster now, given that the old way is fairly slow, and
> only
> likely to get worse as files get bigger? Or, as a corolary question,
> is
> there a
> limit to the total number of pages supported in a given text file? I
> guess
> I shouldn't limit this to text files, since audio files have pages to,
> and
> since the same bad behavior is displayed.
>
> -thanks
> -Brian
>
>
>
>