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Old 12-19-2010, 10:13 PM   #51
mdotson
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Device: Sony Reader, Augen The Book, Slick
Slick update

I have now been using the Slick for 4 days and wanted to ad a few updates to my earlier post.

1. The Slick I have is my second one. The first did not work out of the box having problems with the screen and showing signs of being banged up in shipping. I returned that one and tried a second one with success. The Slick does come with a plastic protective screen cover that easily scratches(much the same as a new cell phone). Removing this clears the screen right up.

2. Today I installed the Borders Kobo app and following instructions set up a Borders account, and then and Adobe Identity for Adobe Digital Editions. I followed that by first purchasing a recent Jack Reacher novel, and then downloaded two of the free books. All were in epub format. All three of them uploaded successfully to the Slick when I hit the sync button in the Kobo app. Not sure what the problem others were having with the free books was, unless they insist on purchasing a book first before allowing access. Computer system I use has Windows 7 on it if that has anything to do with it. I am going to download a few more free ones tomorrow without a purchase and see if they sync properly.

3. I finished reading a 390 page novel over two days without charging the battery. Had one bar left at the end with actual time spent reading about 6 hours, so battery time seems to be about 8 hours or so. OK for this type of reader.

4. I am assuming with an adobe identity I could also download from B & N, or Adobe and drop them in the Digital Editions file and they would work. If anyone has tried this I would like to know. Epubs from Gutenberg, Munsey's, Feedbooks and Smashword all work just fine.

5. Only real complaints I have are minor one such as not being able to adjust the page margins and bookmarks function not really up to par.

6. Overall I am very happy with the Slick as a basic ereader.

7. As a side note I usually use Calibre to manage my ereaders and it recognizes them all, but does not read ADE books itself. It will, however, load them on the readers just fine. If there is a fix for Calibre that allows it to view ADE books I would appreciate the info.
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