Thread: jetBook mini - many pictures and review in Russian
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Old 11-09-2010, 03:45 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by soondai View Post
still just the 2 reviews on Newegg, so I'm guessing no one is biting on this one.

I agree with the 50 dollar comment. I read where someone on this forum maligned the jBL (unfairly), saying it should have just been marketed as a 75 dollar Gutenberg reader.

I think this actually applies to the Mini. I think that they might find a niche if they marked it down to 65 or less (now that e-ink is hitting 99--Kobos and Nook refurbs) and just touted it as a reader for free books.
That might make sense. Even better, include a 2 GB SD card loaded with the thousand or so most popular PG titles.

Of course if it handles PG texts better than the Jetbook originally did, it will be a decent PG reader. I remember early on, I had to write scripts to strip out newline characters (except at paragraph boundries) and if I remember correctly, add indentations to get PG books to display correctly.

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