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Dulin's Books · 08-26-2010, 01:00 AM

After a couple of days of reading I have to say I am actually really impressed with this PageOne. Its firmware is stable, the device is a pleasure to hold and use. The battery life is simply astounding. When reading anything but pdfs there are 20 steps in font size from incredibly silly small to absolutely gigantic.

You can add your own fonts simply by putting the ttf file in the fonts folder, but I didnt need to since the Droid font came installed

It uses a folder structure thankfully so you can create folders how ever you want to sort your library. You can delete books right from the device! There is no search but you can sort by file name or date.

Reading PDFs there are like 10 zoom sizes(no reflow) and you can pan around a page. There is a little icon in the lower left that shows you which section the full page you are looking at. You can also choose fit to page, fit to height or fit to width. You can also choose between turning a whole page at a time or scrolling line by line. I tried a couple texts and the manual for the device and found it very comfortable to read them fit to width in landscape.

When reading most other formats there are a couple of icons in the lower right of the progress bar. They indicate the function of the page tune keys. The first icon represents a book and when selected using the ok button that allows the buttons to turn the pages. Pushing the ok button selects the next icon which is for enlarging the font size. select it and the arrow keys are used to change the font size.

One thing they are still working on is the menu. when you switch to landscape the menus stay in portrait orientation. Thats due to the fact that the menu is so long it wouldn't fit on the screen on the short vertical in landscape. It takes a bit of getting use to but im sure they will figure out away to change the menu structure in a future firmware upgradde.

No touch screen, no wifi, no 3g, no drm support( which would be a nice addition for library books here in the states). Its a dead simple , beautifully made, stable device that is great for READING. It would be nice to see such stable and easy to use firmware from some of the other lesser known reader companies. especially ones whose devices are popping up all over the place in the bed/bath/beyonds /kmarts etc of the US. Better yet it would be nice to see this reader in some of those stores.

Dont take my word for it-this is going off to Nate the Great for a week or so for a proper impartial review.

edit- sorry , lighting problems with 2 of the pics. ill take new ones and have them up in a moment

08-26-2010, 01:00 AM	#6
Dulin's Books Wizard Posts: 2,806 Karma: 13500000 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Portland, OR Device: Boox PB360 etc etc etc	After a couple of days of reading I have to say I am actually really impressed with this PageOne. Its firmware is stable, the device is a pleasure to hold and use. The battery life is simply astounding. When reading anything but pdfs there are 20 steps in font size from incredibly silly small to absolutely gigantic. You can add your own fonts simply by putting the ttf file in the fonts folder, but I didnt need to since the Droid font came installed It uses a folder structure thankfully so you can create folders how ever you want to sort your library. You can delete books right from the device! There is no search but you can sort by file name or date. Reading PDFs there are like 10 zoom sizes(no reflow) and you can pan around a page. There is a little icon in the lower left that shows you which section the full page you are looking at. You can also choose fit to page, fit to height or fit to width. You can also choose between turning a whole page at a time or scrolling line by line. I tried a couple texts and the manual for the device and found it very comfortable to read them fit to width in landscape. When reading most other formats there are a couple of icons in the lower right of the progress bar. They indicate the function of the page tune keys. The first icon represents a book and when selected using the ok button that allows the buttons to turn the pages. Pushing the ok button selects the next icon which is for enlarging the font size. select it and the arrow keys are used to change the font size. One thing they are still working on is the menu. when you switch to landscape the menus stay in portrait orientation. Thats due to the fact that the menu is so long it wouldn't fit on the screen on the short vertical in landscape. It takes a bit of getting use to but im sure they will figure out away to change the menu structure in a future firmware upgradde. No touch screen, no wifi, no 3g, no drm support( which would be a nice addition for library books here in the states). Its a dead simple , beautifully made, stable device that is great for READING. It would be nice to see such stable and easy to use firmware from some of the other lesser known reader companies. especially ones whose devices are popping up all over the place in the bed/bath/beyonds /kmarts etc of the US. Better yet it would be nice to see this reader in some of those stores. Dont take my word for it-this is going off to Nate the Great for a week or so for a proper impartial review. edit- sorry , lighting problems with 2 of the pics. ill take new ones and have them up in a moment Attached Thumbnails Last edited by Dulin's Books; 08-26-2010 at 01:19 AM.