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Originally Posted by zwarbles
I'm sure B&N will fix it with a firmware update, but who knows how long it will take them to put one out.
Mine is going back until the problem is rectified.
Too bad, because I was very impressed with it.
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I'm sure they will too, but I'm not sure that there
is a fix to ghosting other than doing the full refresh more often.
Since one of the major selling points to this device was the 1-in-6 refresh rate (faster turns, less flash), it'll be interesting to see B&N justify a $140 reader that has no 3G, no audiobook/TTS support, no web browser (despite it having the capability when logging into hotel WiFi spots, which is an odd decision to say the least), and all your SD card sideloaded books are tossed into MyFiles instead of the usual library.
And you get -- what was it? -- 250 MB of space on the device?
For me, the biggest plus to the device was the faster refresh and the reduced flash. If the only way to prevent ghosting is to go back to slow refresh / high flash settings, then that selling point sort of becomes moot.
How odd this all is! Surely the B&N technicians MUST have noticed the ghosting before they pushed the device out the door. And now that they've discontinued the N1 model, they've got all their eInk eggs in a single basket.
