I'll just use this thread to ramble on about my ongoing experiences with the V3 until I either run out of things to ramble on about or someone tells me to stop...
Anyway, last night I got around to reading a substantial amount under low-light conditions for the first time. Con: I'd like the screen to have more contrast. I found myself going for some extra light with the e-ink screen where I would have been happy to continue reading with a paper book. I can see this being an advantage for reading outdoors in full sunlight, but for low-light conditions - which is where I do most of my reading - additional lighting is a requirement.
Pro: The
Mighty Bright XtraFlex Duet (aka "bug light" around here) works really well, clipped to the leather cover. There is some light spillage, but not enough to bother the wife, who was contentedly sleeping beside me. Also, the blueish tint of the LED light, while looking a bit cold and harsh in general, works really well with the somewhat yellowish-grey e-ink display. The combination creates a bright, almost pure-white display that is easy to read. Positioning the lights so you don't have any glare from the screen or the body of the V3 takes some doing, but having two independent LEDs on flexible stalks really helps here.
Pro: Page flips are quick, at least when reading FB2 books. PDF files seem to take a bit longer to render. I still need to find the right moment to click "next" for a smooth reading experience, but I think I'll get there.
Pro: I'm really starting to like the reader app of the V3. Above the text body there is a page header with the book author and title, or the file name for TXT files, the page number in <current>/<total> format, and the battery status. Dividing the header from the text body is a thin line, which on closer inspection turns out to be a representation of the book. The line is subdivided at each chapter break, with each line segment representative of the relative chapter length. There is also a marker showing your current position in the book.
(BTW, is this documented anywhere? It should be, but I don't recall reading about that in the manual.)
This turns out to be
immensely useful, not only because I find such a visual progress marker more intuitive to grasp than a x/y page number, but it also makes it relatively easy to estimate things like the number of pages left in the current chapter, which for me is an important decision aid for whether to read on to the end of the chapter or turn in for the night.
As an addendum to my first post from Feb 20, the Recent Files virtual folder works just fine, showing you the last 8 books opened. It's the #1 button used to access it that turns out to require a lot more force to depress than the other buttons on my unit.