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G'day, Alex!
Yes, an Australian.
Sorry. I had to dice the ECO reader ... when I got my first one, it went well for two charges (about 10 days' use), then it refused to start up the next time. I replaced that one with a new one, which refused to shut down after its initial first charge and first use.
Now I use a Laser 7, a media player/ebook reader which is going perfectly. As well, I have a couple of Cobolt media player/ebook readers. None of them use e-ink displays, which, when you think of it, are pretty limited in that they depend on outside light to read the screen, or else you have to buy a light to shine on the screen while it's being read.
Each type of reader has its own good/bad points, I suppose. Different strokes for different folks.
I came across the Mobile Read forum when I was searching for free downloadable ebooks for the e-readers. I entered the discussion on the merits or otherwise of the Kindles and the rights or wrongs of stripping DRM content off downloadable books (which I'm not in the least interested in). I'll stick to the classics and out-of-copyright texts.
I put my five cents' worth in and introduced the subject of the vast number of mistakes present in downloadable books and I gently suggested that some of the correspondents put their messages across in a barely understandable form, but was shot down in flames and told to get off and start up a new "tread", one called it.
So I'm sitting back and watching how this discussion goes (particularly the suggestion that the publishers should be shown just how shoddy some of their products are).
That will be interesting for all concerned on this side of the screen, but I think it will be absolutely ignored by the ones it will be directed to.
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