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I too bought the pandigital novel a couple of days ago too; same place, same deal.
I found that when I first started it up it was slow and difficult to navigate and actually froze up on me, so I upgraded the firmware right away. I do wish that they would post the firmware version and date on the download page.
The upgrade did make screen more responsive and now there are forward and back arrows on the reader pages so you do not need to rely solely on swiping to turn pages.
I especially wanted this model for the night reading mode that I REALLY love. Since I haven’t joined the blackberry/ iPhone/Smartphone trend, having the Wi-Fi , browser and email support... which is really slow... is just a bonus. I will still be somewhat connected if I am that far away from an actual computer, which isn’t often, lol.
I haven’t figured out how to import eBooks from an SD card. The Canadian manual simply says "import eBooks from SD" no mention of how, lol. The US manual says to select "import SD" from the quick launch, but the Canadian version has this. In the meantime, I just transferred the files via USB.
The other thing that I hope that they change in the future updates is the ability to back-up and restore your settings... as it is now you lose them all when you update the firmware.
I work on a 30” Dell IPS monitor so can honestly say that I am spoiled and quite fussy yet I still think that the PDN screen is acceptable for what it is. I do agree that it won't satisfy enthusiats...
Overall, for the price I can say I’m very happy with this purchase... and I’m sure that with future firmware updates will only make it better.
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