Benham:
Let me go check Amazon!
It does a lot, and I am happy with it, but it is not intuitive or super easy to learn. Once you know how to do whatever it is you want to do it is easy to use, but learning (at least for me!) is a bit slow. So if you have no patience with new/different technologies, I say no eDGe for you!
On the other hand, here's what I've learned to do so far: Surf the web, download books direct from the library or through my computer (using Calibre or Adobe Digital Editions), download and play audio books (from the library), download and use Android apps -- some work, some don't -- from Amazon App market or any number of places on the internet (just not Google Market), open Word, Excel and Powerpoint documents (I think you can edit them as well), send and receive email -- including attached books!
, open a webpage on the e-ink side as either an epub or pdf document, draw and handwrite on the e-ink side, save as pdf and send as email attachment (I thought that was pretty cool when I figured it out!
), open a table of contents for the book I'm reading on the tablet side which allows me to navigate to pages I have highlighted or attached webpages or notes to, open a map or illustration from a book I am reading on the e-ink side on the tablet side -- in color, if it is -- then enlarge or shrink that image and move it around with my stylus or finger . . . .
Um, maybe I have learned a lot after all!
There's more -- just today I figured out how to connect to other computers on my home LAN, wirelessly, so that I can access my husband's Calibre library as well as my own!
And I have digital radio, a voice recorder (haven't tried it yet), camera -- works as well as the one on my cell phone, etc.
Oh, if you're reading and want to look something up, you select the word or words, tap the search icon on the reader side, and a window opens on the tablet side that lets you search for that word/phrase 4 ways: dictionary, Google, Wikipedia, or within the book. Also, for navigation, besides the table of contents (which I suppose is only in some books), there's a percentage slider, actual page numbers, a go-back button, an icon to tap for a specific page number, and the usual forward and back buttons.
There's a calendar and contacts list . . . . . . there's a lot!
I'm gonna check Amazon now and see what I missed!
Well . . . you asked!!
