Flashing is a dangerous and nervewracking process that, unless carried out precisely, might brick your precious gadgets. It fills me with a nameless sense of dread. However, driven by frustration from books that kept crashing and the need to always carry a bent paperclip with me, I decided to upgrade my firmware on the Bebook. After browsing the Mobileread and Bebook forums and finding the most recent official firmware wasn’t particularly stable either, I decided to go for the open source ereader firmware OpenInkpot. Despite its latest public release being only at version 0.1, forum opinion appears to be in favour of OI due to its greater stability. And then I decided to take the plunge and just go for the version 0.2 snapshot. Whoo, living on the edge! (They say it has more features and that it is stable enough anyway). Read the rest of this entry »
