[ali]

WOOO i got mine

Some things from me:

• I love the box.
• I does not contain any documentation besides a ~10x10cm mini leaflet.
• I hate the cabling. Look at the attached picture. The travel thing is a mess. Reasons:
  1. the connection thing<->iliad is very very stiff, while the connector to the iliad is very very fragile.
  2. the case is 15cm wide, with a small box with the actual hardware underneath it, of size 6.5cm.
  3. cablings are sticking out to the left & right, so you can not have it dangling between your arms. this makes reading while recharging a mess. even if you read on a table with the travel thing placed on it, you first have to bend the connection cable, and then your arms are resting on the cables.
• the travel thing makes it necessary to buy a (so far nonexistent) usb-to-iliad-connector cable if you want to access the iliad everywhere. so far, the software doesn't allow file operations (e.g., copy usb stick <-> internal memory)
• wired ethernet is dhcp only, you cannot specify anything
• reading scientific papers is not too much fun: I tried this paper (attention self-plug)
  1. letter/a4 with 10pt is next to unreadable
  2. render times are too long - flipping to page 2 of the abovementioned pdf takes 23 seconds (no joke, no decimal point forgotten). I guess I'll return to my idea of pre-rendered books.