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Originally Posted by hidari
Thanx for the details in your review. It looks great for what you want. Too bad about the glare. have you read any ebooks on it yet?
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Cool, glad it made sense and was helpful for ya!! I appreciate your comment...it's been a long week already and that made me smile.
Due to the 'glare' issue the tablet could be hard to read. The display is one of those super glossy display's. Any manner of light source behind, above or to the side could cause a significant reflection (which I think we all tend to incorrectly refer to as glare, I know I do all the time and never correct myself.) But the screen protector from BoxWave, the Anti-Glare version stops that issue completely. Plus it also adds a very familiar paper-like texture as you write, point or otherwise fondle the display. Never thought I would drop $15 for a 4" paper thin piece of plastic but, turns out it's worth every penny...but it sure takes an awful lot of pennies!
As for reading eBooks, I read at least two hours every evening and here and there during the day. I LOVE the display in full screen portrait mode with a slightly parchment colored background and black 26pt text. FBReader gives me so much control it's amazing. It does however, and surprisingly so, lacks bookmarks...that kinda stinks but there is so much other control it's fine. And there is even a special tab for the Nokia Tablets to adjust the touch sensitivity of the screen within the reader environment. And it WORKS...there was a problem with a tap on the screen jumping several pages. Once the settings were changed everything works perfectly.
Right now I am reading Eric Flint's 1633. I read 1632 a couple months back and am also enjoying this read too. I have ported a couple Linux reference sites to FBReader as HTML and that works well enough. But I also found an app just for the N8x0 devices running OS2008 that allows saving entire sites (or group of related pages) locally for offline reading.
I haven't had anytime to just sit over at Starbucks in the afternoon reading or doing xword puzzles. But in a week or two I can get back to that every other day or so...I miss it.
My overall impression of the N800 as an ebook reader is excellent. But there is that single glaring caveat of no DRM content can be read. So, if there is something I want to read which is only to be had DRM'd I will be using the nx73v...plus I prefer to do my xword puzzled on it vs the Garnet VM running BeCrossword. The problem is the GVM simply is not "Hildonized" to display well on the N8x0's. I understand this is a display resolution issue that is likely unsolvable. still it does work and I could and have easily worked them on the N800 without issues.
What I really want to do is open one of the illustrated Dickens works Harry_T fixed up and see how it displays in FBReader...I bet it's sorta nice...
Glad my ramblings were of use to someone...
THANKS!!