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Originally Posted by simple79
1-Speed: I am going to read computing books, and after watching videos of its page flip, I am really worried. It is really slow and it could be irritating..
How about the scrolling? can you scroll down a page quickly?
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I don't think that the refresh of a single page is significantly slower on the DR-900 than it is on E-Ink devices like the Kindle. It's a bit worse, but the difference is not relevant on a single page change.
You can scroll a page by using your finger to drag it. Then you have to wait for the usual refresh, say a second or so. Of course if you want to do precise scrolling or have to scroll repeatedly you can become tired of this delay. And if you try to click several times the page change keys, you don't get a large jump in a single operation; you will have to wait more or less for the sum of the durations of the single jumps.
So: if you only want to see the second half of a page that you are reading (e.g. because you're using the device in landscape mode), that's not a problem. You drag your finger on the screen and move to the second half. If, on the other hand, you have to scroll up and down (e.g., to check something) repeatedly or you have to quickly jump from one page to another, the DR-900 (and, I would add, any device with an electrophoretic screen) is not the right tool.
You could consider another forthcoming Asus product, the EA800, which has a (non-backlit) LCD screen and a faster processor. I've not tried it, but from videos it seems way more responsive. Actually I was about to buy that instead of the DR-900, but I sacrificed performance in exchange for a 2-week battery duration (instead of a 10-hour one) :-)
Finally: yes, you can switch to English the language of the DR-900 (I did it). Maybe you have to repeat the operation after every firmware upgrade, but I'm not sure of that.