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kusmi,
I agree with you. Frustration reigns. I have given my "support" to the advancement of e ink reader technology with my purchase of the iLiad, and I paid dearly. Not going to do it again.
The iLiad works well as just a flat out fiction reading device - period. The promise of more advanced functionality has never panned out. The hardware is there, it has just never been made functional, at least not in a practical sense. As the device is getting on to 3 years old, a veritable lifetime in this genre, it will soon be relegated to the technological junk pile as it will be surpassed by newer devices/technologies. Right off the bat the Vizplex screens really makes the iLiad pale in comparison.
Hopefully I will get my unit returned to me after the battery upgrade. iRex has never bothered to inform me of the status. All I know is that it was received. Most other companies I have dealt with will keep you informed as to just what is going on. Most of the problems with the iLiad are related to how things are handled by iRex.
The iLiad was a good idea, it just floundered. The design was not well thought out or implemented.
For my needs I am considering a convertible tablet notebook computer. This is fraught with it's own problems. Right now the biggest shortcoming using this device versus the iLiad is battery life and that's it. I will use the iLiad till I can justify another expenditure on high tech stuff. Once it's retired I will just use it to read fiction; fiction like the original specs on the iLiad that iRex sold to us all.
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