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jbcohen · 12-10-2010, 07:53 AM

I guess this is a case of your experience may differ or as the other forum says YMV (Your experience May Vary). I have had my Libra Pro for four months and everything is going great, I have to reset it approximatly once a month (nothing like what I had to do with the Pandigital Novel that was stolen, which I had to reset four to five times a day). I have been told several times that any time anything is mass produced as is the Alutatek Libra Pro duds happen and I guess this person that you heard from got one of the duds. Aluratek knows this is going to happen but they are powerless to stop it. The only thing they can do is to send a free replacement, which hopefully will not be a dud also.

I have heard of the same thing happening to the Sony PRS, Atacko Jetbook and the Kindle. I heard from one unlucky person who bought a brand new Kindle DX brought it home and it was broken, he returned the unit to Amazon and got a Sony PRS which was also dead on arival. He returned that and got a Jet Book which was also dead the first time he attempted to turn it on then worked fine after that.

The point I am trying to make is any time you mass produce anything these things happen, no one is imune and makers try to keep this to a minimum but doing what is often referred to as a "burn in". They turn on each device in the factory and run it through all of the paces attempting to make it fail, by showing an ebook and a photo and an MP3. Unfortunately this does nto always guarantee that the device will work once it gets into the customer's hands but it decreases the likelyhood that a failure will occur.

12-10-2010, 07:53 AM	#2
jbcohen Wizard Posts: 3,032 Karma: 11196738 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Where am I? Device: Kindle Paperwhite Signature edition and a Samsung S24 Ultra	I guess this is a case of your experience may differ or as the other forum says YMV (Your experience May Vary). I have had my Libra Pro for four months and everything is going great, I have to reset it approximatly once a month (nothing like what I had to do with the Pandigital Novel that was stolen, which I had to reset four to five times a day). I have been told several times that any time anything is mass produced as is the Alutatek Libra Pro duds happen and I guess this person that you heard from got one of the duds. Aluratek knows this is going to happen but they are powerless to stop it. The only thing they can do is to send a free replacement, which hopefully will not be a dud also. I have heard of the same thing happening to the Sony PRS, Atacko Jetbook and the Kindle. I heard from one unlucky person who bought a brand new Kindle DX brought it home and it was broken, he returned the unit to Amazon and got a Sony PRS which was also dead on arival. He returned that and got a Jet Book which was also dead the first time he attempted to turn it on then worked fine after that. The point I am trying to make is any time you mass produce anything these things happen, no one is imune and makers try to keep this to a minimum but doing what is often referred to as a "burn in". They turn on each device in the factory and run it through all of the paces attempting to make it fail, by showing an ebook and a photo and an MP3. Unfortunately this does nto always guarantee that the device will work once it gets into the customer's hands but it decreases the likelyhood that a failure will occur.