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Originally Posted by rscudder
Hi Marcy,
Calibre- which I had not used before- has a ton of settings to use when converting. I believe you could set up a functioning table of contents with it from a quick glance at the options. Anyone?
I agree it is unwieldy at the moment- but I think that may stop being noticeable, just like the weight has. I liked being able to do page turning in the dark with the joystick. (my husband thinks I am overly infatuated with the joystick  )
My SD card hierarchy was recognized- but I still haven't been able to set one up in music.
Oh- text to speech was amazingly better than I expected. No expression of course, but a pleasant female voice.
I think it may be the lowest common denominator of ebook readers, once a couple bugs are settled. It is cheap enough for a gift to a child - and they are going to be a generation raised with eBooks.
Rebecca |
The books I was reading already had a table of contents. The Book just doesn't recognize them. There is no option on the menu for TOC, just GoTo, so I'm assuming it's a "feature" as opposed to a bug. These are professionally purchased ebooks from a variety of sources that all have a working TOC on my PB360 and iPhone.
So, converting with Calibre won't really help anything. I ♥ Calibre. It is the best thing to happen to ebooks, just as important as my reader, but it just can't fix this.
It really can't stop being unwieldy for me because I am a one-handed reader. That's why I love my PB360 so much. This is just a bit too heavy and thick to ever read one-handed, especially with the positioning of the controls.
I can't help with the music, since I don't use it on my readers. I also used only the internal memory as I transferred only about 50 books. Text-to-speech doesn't interest me at all, so I didn't try that either.
I think this needs a hardware redesign before it is for me. I'd be willing to accept the software issues, because I expect that can be updated in the future. However, I want a less bulky device, with the controls more intuitively placed, and most importantly either a touch-screen or a back-lit keyboard.
It was cheap enough that I gave serious thought to keeping it for reading pdfs, but in the end I find it uncomfortable enough that I won't enjoy it. I'd rather read them on the PB360s flawed but usable reflow mode. They don't display as well, but the reader is much more comfortable to use.
Thanks so much Rebecca for pointing out this was available in Kmart. Otherwise I probably would have been stuck taking a hit, even more than the return postage, to return this to the place I had pre-ordered it.
-Marcy