[Marcy]

Okay, after much frustration and effort I hacked my reader, and installed Aldiko, Amazon, Kindle and ereader apps.

Amazon app will load my archived books but chokes whenever I try to download one. It just gives an error message no matter which book I try to download. I can easily browse the amazon store, so it isn't the connection. The app is also painfully slow, scrolling through my entire list of free books would take upwards of 10 minutes, which I don't have the patience for.

The Kobo app just crashes instantly the minute I open it.

Aldiko seems nice but I haven't figured out how to get my books into it yet. It is still very slow. Page turns are faster than the default reader, but at least 5x longer than any of my e-ink readers, which seems ridiculous.

On the whole, the reader is very slow and buggy with frequent crashes. I did upgrade the firmware before hacking. The wi-fi is flaky and unreliable even if I am standing right next to my router.

Do people have other experiences besides this?? Reading on my iphone is seeming like a wonderful experience, despite the teeny-tiny screen, after dealing with this. If they weren't so big I'd be ready to pony up for the iPad to get a backlit reader that actually worked decently.

-Marcy