Hi,
after having read the reviews I bought a T2. Great display, snappy, good run-time, easy to use, interface to evernote, marking the text is easy, etc. so I was pretty happy. Until I got a book on programming, which turned the screen black as soon as I hit a certain page. There was no way to read this chapter. I thought maybe the book was screwed up. I ignored it and hoped that this chapter wasn't that interesting anyway. However, little later I had the same effect in another book. Then also in a Wikipedia article I converted to EPUB for offline reading.
My vendor confirmed that he saw the same effect - either a black display when you flip to the first page of a chapter, or alternatively the screen flickers and the reader is back in the library - with another T2. He recommended that I should contact Sony directly.
Sony or rather one of their contracted repair shops replaced the chassis and probably also the processor board, even though I told them that this was a software issue. I got the reader with the replacement parts back after a couple of weeks, but of course the problem was still there. They even didn't care to reproduce the issue. I gave them the example files, sent them a video, described step by step how to reproduce the problem. Then finally after almost two months they confirmed at the phone hat the T2 cannot display this file. Geee ... what a revelation! I asked them for a written confirmation so that I have a proof for my vendor when I return the device. I got an email that said that the T2 cannot display non-latin fonts, which is by the way conforming to the EPUB standard. This sounded like it's my fault.
I started to strip down the article until it finally consisted only of a single line with a single space character wrapped in <pre></pre> tags. <pre> tags are pretty common for preformatted program code, that's why this problem occurred in this book on Javascript programming.
Fact ist: the PRS-T2 crashes when there's a preformatted empty line in the EPUB-file. It has nothing to do with non-latin or any other fonts. Sony support said they can't tell when or whether this problem will be fixed.
Now I have a Pocketbook Lux Touch which displays program code nicely, but it has some other downsides. I would have preferred a working T2 ....
after having read the reviews I bought a T2. Great display, snappy, good run-time, easy to use, interface to evernote, marking the text is easy, etc. so I was pretty happy. Until I got a book on programming, which turned the screen black as soon as I hit a certain page. There was no way to read this chapter. I thought maybe the book was screwed up. I ignored it and hoped that this chapter wasn't that interesting anyway. However, little later I had the same effect in another book. Then also in a Wikipedia article I converted to EPUB for offline reading.
My vendor confirmed that he saw the same effect - either a black display when you flip to the first page of a chapter, or alternatively the screen flickers and the reader is back in the library - with another T2. He recommended that I should contact Sony directly.
Sony or rather one of their contracted repair shops replaced the chassis and probably also the processor board, even though I told them that this was a software issue. I got the reader with the replacement parts back after a couple of weeks, but of course the problem was still there. They even didn't care to reproduce the issue. I gave them the example files, sent them a video, described step by step how to reproduce the problem. Then finally after almost two months they confirmed at the phone hat the T2 cannot display this file. Geee ... what a revelation! I asked them for a written confirmation so that I have a proof for my vendor when I return the device. I got an email that said that the T2 cannot display non-latin fonts, which is by the way conforming to the EPUB standard. This sounded like it's my fault.
I started to strip down the article until it finally consisted only of a single line with a single space character wrapped in <pre></pre> tags. <pre> tags are pretty common for preformatted program code, that's why this problem occurred in this book on Javascript programming.
Fact ist: the PRS-T2 crashes when there's a preformatted empty line in the EPUB-file. It has nothing to do with non-latin or any other fonts. Sony support said they can't tell when or whether this problem will be fixed.
Now I have a Pocketbook Lux Touch which displays program code nicely, but it has some other downsides. I would have preferred a working T2 ....