This is a great feature. What I would like to see is a feature to check the amount of time remaining before the sleep timer shuts off the BookSense.
On 11/12/09, Missy Hoppe <[email protected]> wrote: > Sweet! This sounds like an absolutely brilliant feature! I can't wait for > this one. I don't use the sleep timer for sleeping, but I can definitely see > myself using it for reading while walking on the tredmill! Thanks for the > exciting news! > Missy > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <[email protected]> > To: "Book Sense Discussion List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 3:45 PM > Subject: [GW-Booksense] new BookSense firmware teaser number 3 > > > I was going to only send out one per week, but i figured that since last > Thursday was teaser number 1, I should keep the Thursday pattern. > > Teaser number 3 involves the sleep timer. Yes folks, the sleep timer. > Currently in the 1.1 firmware you are limited to things like 15 minutes, > 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, ETC. But what if you want 45 minutes? What > if you want 33 minutes? > > With the new firmware which will be released soon, you can now enter in > the amount of sleep you want. What's even better is that you don't need > to go into the menus if you don't want to. All you have to do now is > press and hold the number 4 key for 2 seconds and an edit box will pop > up and ask you for the sleep timer interval. Using your BookSense > keypad, type a number like 3, 5, 33, 48, or 65 and press the pound/ok > button. The BookSense sleep timer will be set to that amount and you can > now read in peace. > > But wait! There's more. What if you set the sleep timer to 35 minutes, > but 20 minutes later you decide that you won't fall asleep for another > 40 minutes after. Simply press the number 4 key for 2 seconds and key in > your new sleep timer value and press the pound/ok button and the sleep > timer will reset to the new value. > > if you decide that sleeping is not in the stars for you this go round, > simply key in a 0 and the sleep timer will be disabled. > > We don't yet have a release date for the firmware, but we are working > hard to make it a good one. > > Many thanks. > > -- > Raul A. Gallegos > GW Micro Technical Support Team > Voice 260-489-3671, Fax 260-489-2608 > Web http://www.gwmicro.com > > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender > only. If your reply would benefit others on the list andyour message is > related to GW Micro or the BookSense, then please consider sending your > message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. > > If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to > [email protected] and include leave gw-booksense in the body of the > message. > > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender > only. If your reply would benefit others on the list andyour message is > related to GW Micro or the BookSense, then please consider sending your > message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. > > If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to > [email protected] and include leave gw-booksense in the body of the > message. > > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list andyour message is related to GW Micro or the BookSense, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and include leave gw-booksense in the body of the message.
