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ArchStanton · 07-30-2010, 05:15 PM

Thanks for the responses everybody.

What I ended up doing is running by K-Mart and buying one of those Auger 'The Book' gizmos for $89.

It works fine. Given the fact that it no doubt has a cheapie CPU (and is using Linux I believe), I'm not surprised by the slow boot and poor speed of the browser, but it works fine for the pdfs I've thrown at it. A bit bigger screen would have been nice, but for the price I'm happy.

The mechanical designers could have stood to look at the buttons on the side of the ebookwise....the ones on the unit are a bit loud if you are trying to read quietly, but the joystick is an ok stand-in.

As far as full-blown tablets are concerned, I have an allergy to Apple products, LOL, I guess that makes me an 'independent geek'.

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/...ks-says-study/

so I'll probably wait for the Google OS world to settle down a bit before getting something like that.

07-30-2010, 05:15 PM	#8
ArchStanton Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2010 Device: none	Thanks for the responses everybody. What I ended up doing is running by K-Mart and buying one of those Auger 'The Book' gizmos for $89. It works fine. Given the fact that it no doubt has a cheapie CPU (and is using Linux I believe), I'm not surprised by the slow boot and poor speed of the browser, but it works fine for the pdfs I've thrown at it. A bit bigger screen would have been nice, but for the price I'm happy. The mechanical designers could have stood to look at the buttons on the side of the ebookwise....the ones on the unit are a bit loud if you are trying to read quietly, but the joystick is an ok stand-in. As far as full-blown tablets are concerned, I have an allergy to Apple products, LOL, I guess that makes me an 'independent geek'. http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/...ks-says-study/ so I'll probably wait for the Google OS world to settle down a bit before getting something like that.