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Well, speaking as someone who hasn't owned an e-reader before:
Surprisingly heavy after you read for a while. Seems like I must need to build up my wrist muscles or something, but after a few minutes I have to prop it up. Actually, seems to be top-heavy.
Similarly, the page turn buttons. Need to be wider, I think. In either case, between the two, I've gotten a sore left wrist from reading 1 1/2 novels on it.
The 5-way thing is much too small. There should also be a button that takes you to the table of contents of a book. I tried reading a thing of short stories last night and it was kind of a pain having to Hit Menu, then GOTO, then Table of Contents, then scrolling very slowly through it to get to the story.
I think I'm going to have to figure out how to break these collections up into smaller ToCs in order to be manageable.
I love the text. It really looks like well, text. But the white isn't even close to being white, it's barely even light grey.
How it goes to sleep seemingly moments after I set it down. If there is no burn in with e-ink, why not just keep it there?
And while it's something of a paradox, having the instructions on how to use the e-reader actually on the e-reader is kind of problematic. When you want to look something up and you're not familiar with using the e-reader, it's kind of frustrating having to use it to look it up.
Also, this isn't a Kindle problem, but more Amazon. I had "bought" a bunch of free ebooks from Amazon, classics. Only when they were delivered, they were formatted horribly, in some cases basically unreadable.
What's worse, many free versions of books have several versions. And there is no separate review page for them (or even from the print version). So there is no way of indicating that this book is horribly formatted.
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