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Originally Posted by Onemack
I must admit to being a bit puzzled by all this, I own a Sony 500 and A Bookeen Cybook Gen 3 and have just ordered an ILiad. I find the Bookeen never boots in under 30 secs and most times takes around 45. I find that its battery life is inceasingly shorter as I use it more, I now have to charge it every other day, yet when I bought it I went over a couple of weeks.
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My Gen3 boots in 25s - I've just timed it. But, the point about the Gen3 is that when you're not using it, it goes into a low-power "hibernate" mode and will (or should, at least) run for 4-5 days on a battery charge. The iLiad will run for about 12h on a battery charge, and doesn't "hibernate", so if you want to have several short reading sessions during the day, as I do, you have to constantly switch it on and off. My Gen3 I can just switch on in the morning, leave it on, and recharge it perhaps once a week or so.
If you're needing to recharge the Gen3 every other day, it sounds as if your battery is faulty. As I say, even if you disable auto-shutdown and leave it running constantly, you should get 4-5 days from it.
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As well as this I cannot see how Mobipocket can get much more "basic" than it already is.
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The main issues with the iLiad Mobi reader are that it only supports a single font (and I really don't like the font which it uses), and it will only show you specific navigation items, so, for example, there's no way to see a book's cover page. It also doesn't have any form of "Librarian" as the other Mobi implementations do, so there's no way to browse through a list of books by their metadata - you just open a book's file directly from the file system.