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Originally Posted by Ramothgirl
Hi mikebliv
This is my first post to this forum. I have bought the stash ereader from OW because I wanted to see how the ereaders worked before committing to better models. It is very basic and the epub versions I have are free of DRM. It loses the odd letters off the right handside of the screen (see: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum...m/1458451.html) and it is not good for reading when there is lots of bright natural light -although it is good for night reading given that the screen is backlit. It also doesn't reflow pdfs, and although it supports pdf, it is very hard to read (maybe that was the pdf i was trying to read).
Unfortunately it doesn't support DRM versions and the only way to get these to work is to remove the DRM and reconvert using a program like calibre. I thought I was fairly tech savvy - until I read a post on how to remove DRM  The calibre conversion is easy though!! For an introduction to ereaders I like it, but will be wanting to upgrade to a e-ink version soon - just continuing my research into which model I should get. |
I bought one of these Stash W950 ebook readers (Delstar Openbook in US I think) from OfficeWorks last week and, for the money ($A129, or ~$US110), I think it's great.
I've downloaded quite a few Epub freebies from the place recommended on the box,
http://www.ebookmart.com.au/ and so far they all seem to come across very well. They do sometimes miss a letter at the end of a line every few pages, but this is no big deal. Even my Kindle does this with sometimes with some freebie books.
I'm not sure why some are having backlighting problems. Mine seems very good, even at the 2nd from brightest setting and I have to turn it down a bit in a darkened room. For bright ouside light, the white letters on black background option works pretty good.
The best features (and why I mainly bought it) is it's MP3 and Video player. It has 2gb internal memory and can take up to a 16gb standard SD card. Both of these features work very well (much better than my current irivers MP3 player). There is an experimental mp3 player on the Kindle but it's terrible.
I cannot see this replacing my Kindle k2i as a regular ebook reader but I'll probably pack it around on some trips to avoid packing both the k2i and a mp3 player. Also, I like that this can import (non-DRM) where my k2i cannot (without converting anyway).
Anyway, just my $0.02 worth.
Edit; After playing with this unit a bit more and having lots of difficulties getting videos to play as well as trying to read poorly formatted ebooks, I returned this unit to OW today.
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