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Hello all! Just throwing in my 2 cents. I was looking into an e-reader around Black Friday and happened upon The Book for $90 with a rebate of $20. I immediately did what I always do and started looking for reviews on the product; which were so-so. Well seeing as how it was cheap, color, could play music/video and came with case intact I decided to go for it! My wife and I both got one (though she hasn't really done anything with hers as of yet) and at first I was thinking I got gypped. I couldn't get an SD card to read to save my life! The internet access was worse than 56k! I ended up opening my wife's up and low & behold hers read the SD card just fine so I used hers to get mine booted up and since then have had no problem. I, like others I have seen, am using mine for e-comics though I view mine as PDF's (converted from cbr/cbz with the help of Comic Rack). The comics for the most part are smooth but some do hang up forcing you (or sometimes taking you) back to the main menu and then starting over. One solution I've found for snagging pages is to use the "GoTo Page" function located in the menu accessed near the toggle button. I have also successfully converted dvds into avi's using Winx Free DVD Ripper and they play beautifully and look as well as can be expected on the small screen...and actually if I do say so they surpassed my expectations! And though I've not really used The Book as an e-reader I do plan to at some point and I see no reason why it won't live up to that purpose!! One of the biggest things that comes in handing with The Book is patience, this is definitely not an easy plug and play device but with a little work it can be an enjoyable multi-media device!! I'd rank it around a 3 outta 5....I do wish they could work on the internet access speed!
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