Hi Kurt,
Welcome to the ebook world!
I think that the reviews are not trying to be harsh, as much as we are all learning about it. Augen did tout its virtues!
I think that the ability to have resizable type is wonderful for people with variable eyesight- your comments put that virtue into perspective
There are a lot of places where you can get free- and legal- ebooks- if you mention the type of books you like to read, I think many people will chime in. My advice on putting the books on the reader is to do it through a computer- either directly on it (not really fast) or on an SD card, where you can play with the hierarchies for the books. A computer browser will make getting books much easier than using the browser in TB. (even though mine is working
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I would avoid ebooks in PDF for this reader for one reason- the resizing / zoom is most limited for PDF ebooks.
Have you tried the text to speech function yet?
Rebecca