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new patch
Bought The Book 6 days ago from KMart. I wanted to replace my EBookWise and specifically wanted something that with a backlight since 90% of my reading is at night in bed.
Immediate problems:
1) did not recognize any SD card
2) when opening a new book, it opened in the middle of the book so I immediately had to use the menu to go back to Page 1
3) the time display is not accurate
4) it has already crashed once (functions stopped working and screen went blank except for 911 611 211 displayed along the side of the screen)
5) you can only read the Help page once - to access it again you have to power off and power on
I called Augen today and after working with the tech for almost 30 minutes was told:
1) The Book does not take HC or HS SD cards (though none of my regular 2 G cards worked either)
2) my unit has a software problem that causes it to crash
3) although the new patch (Sep 1?) *might* address some of these problems, the patch CANNOT be downloaded through Windows 7 (64 bit) or Linux (my two laptops), so I have no way to get the patch on my The Book.
I love the eBook capability of this reader (and the ease of transferring html pages from my computer compared to the eBookWise), but will be returning this to KMart tomorrow and then will give it a try again in about 6 months when they have the bugs worked out. :>
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