[tonyas]

Thank all for you’re the very kind welcome to the forum.

GA I think determining the brand of my ‘e-reader’ may be a problem; it may well be a cloned copy/mixture. I just looked on ebay & there are now no more of the type I bought. As I was going to give a link to see what you thought, may I bother you with the description?
Description :

7 inch ebook reader
Audio player,Radio player,Bookmark function,Calendar function
*Display Type: powered by cPAPER technology
*7 inch 480*800 Pixels TFT screen
*support video format:AVI,FLV,WAV,WMA,RM,RMVB
*Support Music format: MP3,WMA,FLAC,AAC,OGG,APE
*Replay setting: once, single repeat, all one time, all repeat, audition
*Play setting: order, shuffle
*Audio: normal, Microsoft Audio,%2osition:bottom%7sic, Bass, Jazz
*Recording function
*Image view: support image format JPG, BMP, image to enlarge, image narrow
*Image rotation: support 0, 90, 180, 270 degree rotation
*Browsing history feature
*TXT text: support ANSI/UNICODE coding.
*FB2 text: support ANSI/UTF-8 coding
*HTML text: support ANSI/UTF-8 coding
*PDB text: support palm DOC format
*PDF text: support PDF version 1.3/1.4/1.5
*EPUB text: support OCF specification
*Bookmark function
*Browsing mode.: support manual mode and auto mode
*Auto flip function: support 10 sec, 30 sec, 50 sec, 80 sec, 100 sec and 120 sec
*Font Enlarging function
*Menu language: Simplified Chinese, English and traditional Chinese, English, Spanish/Japanese, Portuguese French South Korea/German, Dutch Italian, Malay, Turkish, Indonesia
*Support date and time
*Calendar function
*Auto shutdown time: support 3 min,5 min, 10 min, 15 min, 20 min and Auto shutdown off
*System restore function
*SNR: equal or more than 90dB
*Support software update
*TF card: build-in 4GB storage, support TF card external.(Max 16GB)
*The longest playing time: Audio 18 hours, video 6~7 hours
*Electronic book reading: about 12 hours, 3500 pages.
*Accessories: manual, charger
*Charger Specification: input AC100~240V 50/60Hz output: DC5.0~5.5V 500mA~1500mA
*interface Specification USB2.0(High Speed)
*Built-in Lithium battery(3.7V,2000mAh)

Sorry for length but that’s it. I must say it looks a well-made bit of kit, its reasonably heavy & of course has the nice free leather case. It has more memory than my 8-year-old PC.

Cassidym Thanks for the suggestion of Flashman series by George MacDonald Fraser. I remember reading one of his books quite a few years ago – I don’t now know why I didn’t like/carry on reading them, but now you have mentioned him I will certainly give him another go.
Have you read the Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell? This is my particular area the peninsular war it won’t be too long before it is the bi-centenary of Waterloo. I have just given all my Sharpe books plus loads more to charity as have had to reduce my bookshelves. It is now a case of if I buy a book I must get rid of an old one – difficult to decide what to get rid of. It was this shortage of shelves, which prompted me to buy an e-reader & the potential thousands of free classic books there to download.

Hildetsj I understand your reservations about such a purchase from China I thought I might well be risking getting an item that did not operate as described, but the company has a good ‘feedback’ on ebay so I took a chance time will tell if I was correct or if I am later asking for advice on buying another e-reader.

Regards Tony