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Hi everyone - I'm a new member here and have just ordered the Cool-er Reader for myself as a Christmas present from my partner.
I noticed them advertised at £79.99 in Argos' Ebay Outlet as mentioned above, seemed like an absolute steal to me considering most of you will have paid around the £160-£180 mark from what I've seen.
There seem to be mixed opinions of this reader, but from the hands-on video reviews I've watched I do very much like the look of the Cool-er. Such a shame that the company has been liquidated as we can no longer look forward to firmware updates, however I did read that Interead were planning to upload the source to enable community development, which could be interesting!
At the end of the day I think £79.99 for an eInk reader is very impressive, there's a few cheaper ones on the market but without the eInk screen. Support for a wide range of open formats and mp3 was also one of the key selling points, and also it's so pretty! I was originally going to go for the Sony Pocket, but 512MB of onboard storage and no expansion doesn't sound ideal. I do have a 12 month warranty with Argos which is good as I understand a few of you had teething problems - hopefully these were related to early firmware versions though.
So now I just have to wait until Christmas! Already got Calibre set up full of epub books which I believe is the format best displayed on the Cool-er, so just need to copy them over Christmas day morning!!!
Nice to meet you all :-)
Laura
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