As with earlier postings, we had searched and found the black-on-white eBook readers to be very limiting, and the LCD/TFT iPad clones just didn't have the battery life for long car and airplane family trips. Our daughter has troubles reading regular book sized fonts due to a problem in one eye.
I picked up an Augen The Book (TB) while on a business trip where many of my cohorts were discussing the eBook reader phenomena. We had gone to a Barnes & Noble and looked over the Kindle, next day one fellow found some of the Aluratek Libre ($129 sale) and TBs ($89 if enroll in Kmart e-mail) available in the local KMart. The other two guys liked the Libre, I liked the TB with good backlighting and decent battery life. This was a winner for my daughter!
Yes, there are quirks that I hope Augen or Calibre updates fix in the near future. The pub formats I've downloaded so far have images and nice formatting of chapter headings, etc, in the PC reader, but don't transfer those to TB.
If anyone is testing Calibre conversion functions on TB, let me know and I'll do some testing. PDF versions of eBooks have the images, including color covers rendered intact. However, there are the limited range of fonts available for PDF reading on TB. pub formats show the covers and other nice features on the PC but not on TB.
I'll keep following the fora here for future developments! At one point, the Augen web site had an update to Calibre posted, but that was removed. Too bad, because that update got me going, until after the update was installed on my laptop and found the successive Calibre updates.
Best, Mark at 7tronics
UPDATE: We've decided to take TB back to KMart and go with Pandigital Novel,
see why here. Several on the list offered help,
