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Having owned a PRS500, a Nook, a Pandigital Novel (white) and a PRS650, I can unequivocally that the Literati is the worst ereader I've ever used. And yet, it still isn't so bad. There's a completely useless keyboard (there's almost no reason to ever type anything, seeing as how internet access is blocked), the navigation is slow and extremely clunky and the device feels cheap. It only gets around 6 hours of battery life and it's a touch too heavy.
With all of that said, once you actually have a book open and the only button you're pushing is the "next" key, it's perfectly functional as an ereader. For a kid or an adult's first ereader experience it's not bad (though the difficult-to-use interface might actually turn them off of this whole ereader business). My 10-year-old cousin has no problem using his but my 57-year-old mother gets confused all the time.
I bought mine at Bed, Bath and Beyond for $12 (it was on clearance for $40, a 20% off coupon reduced it to $32, plus there was a $20 mail-in-rebate). In my opinion, the full $40 would have been a little too high for this device.
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