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Originally Posted by Taylor514ce
I'd love to have an Iliad. It appears to be the state of the art for e-ink devices. I just can't help feeling that all of the e-ink devices on the market now retail for about twice what they should. I think if Irex would dramatically reduce the price, they'd own the market.
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It does have some major issues, however, which is why I sold mine: a rather long boot-up time (45s or so) and a short battery life. Additionally, the MobiPocket Reader implementation on the iLiad is considerably more "basic" than that of other versions of it. You really need to recharge the iLiad every day or so, as you would a laptop. The dedicated bookreaders can all go for weeks between charges. If you want to read A4 PDFs then yes, the iLiad is undoubtedly the best. If you want to read fiction, my experience (having owned all three) is that both the Sony and Gen3 are better.
It's best to think of the iLiad as an eInk Tablet PC rather than as a bookreader.
The price of all the devices is determined by the price of the screen. That's bound to fall with time, but at the moment, as you know, eInk screens are made by one company (PVI in Taiwan) who can't produce enough to satisfy demand. That's not an environment in which prices are going to fall.