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Billi · 08-13-2011, 10:05 AM

Hi Anthony, welcome to MobileRead!

All in all I'm a satisfied user of the Pocketbook 902 and I'm trying to answer your questions a little bit.

- Considering your reading material you're right that a 9,7" device should fit you best. There are three choices, Kindle DXG, Pocketbook 902/3, Onyx M90/91.

- Pocketbook 902-903: 903 has a wacom touch screen and a pencil, it has 3G and wifi, 902 only wifi, 903 is a lot more expensive.

- Yes, this devices sometimes don't work and you have to restart them (and sometimes take such drastical messures as taking out the battery) but I think that happens with every brand.
One known problem that hangs a pocketbook is deleting the delivered library from a PC (you should do this on the reader). The device then needs a very long time to reorganize the internal database.
But in general, there are different firmware versions, version 2.04 works stable and the higher ones don't offer any remarkable advantage for the 902 device, only for the 903.

- The dictionaries: When the new Pocketbook line came out in the end of 2010 they contained a lot of dictionaries. Afterwards it showed that there has been a misunderstanding or something worse between Pocketbook and Abbyy Lingvo, that Pocketbook didn't have the right to publish all the dictionaries as full versions but had to publish some as trial versions. Without announcing anything Pocketbook changed the character of these dictionaries in later firmware upgrades which caused a lot of disgust by their users.
But as a new buyer you should not ask which dictionaries are lost now but which dictionaries are still delivered and which language combinations are important for you. Unfortunately I can't tell you this as I have never upgraded past 2.04. But I think you can ask this question directly in the Pocketbook subforum.

- All in all: it is a very good device for reading pdf files and you have a lot of ways to customise your reader yourself.

08-13-2011, 10:05 AM	#2
Billi Wizard Posts: 3,388 Karma: 14190103 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Berlin Device: Cybook, iRex, PB, Onyx	Hi Anthony, welcome to MobileRead! All in all I'm a satisfied user of the Pocketbook 902 and I'm trying to answer your questions a little bit. - Considering your reading material you're right that a 9,7" device should fit you best. There are three choices, Kindle DXG, Pocketbook 902/3, Onyx M90/91. - Pocketbook 902-903: 903 has a wacom touch screen and a pencil, it has 3G and wifi, 902 only wifi, 903 is a lot more expensive. - Yes, this devices sometimes don't work and you have to restart them (and sometimes take such drastical messures as taking out the battery) but I think that happens with every brand. One known problem that hangs a pocketbook is deleting the delivered library from a PC (you should do this on the reader). The device then needs a very long time to reorganize the internal database. But in general, there are different firmware versions, version 2.04 works stable and the higher ones don't offer any remarkable advantage for the 902 device, only for the 903. - The dictionaries: When the new Pocketbook line came out in the end of 2010 they contained a lot of dictionaries. Afterwards it showed that there has been a misunderstanding or something worse between Pocketbook and Abbyy Lingvo, that Pocketbook didn't have the right to publish all the dictionaries as full versions but had to publish some as trial versions. Without announcing anything Pocketbook changed the character of these dictionaries in later firmware upgrades which caused a lot of disgust by their users. But as a new buyer you should not ask which dictionaries are lost now but which dictionaries are still delivered and which language combinations are important for you. Unfortunately I can't tell you this as I have never upgraded past 2.04. But I think you can ask this question directly in the Pocketbook subforum. - All in all: it is a very good device for reading pdf files and you have a lot of ways to customise your reader yourself.