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ok, my quick thoughts. It is impossibly light. I couldn't figure out how to charge it--only by USB? that's a bummer. charging by USB is so slow. My battery had two charges left, so it was not depleted.
I'm not sure if I'm going to keep it. I'll have to figure out what the return policy is, but.. I'm sort of disappointed by the 350 because of two issues.
A) the Pearl screen.. I did expect it to be a noticeable upgrade from my 505. Either I have an amazing 505, or a bad 350, or pearl isn't all that it was hyped up to be. Because I can barely see a difference in background paleness or text darkness. I tried looking at it in sunlight, in bright indoors light, not much of a difference, side by side. Then again, I didn't have much of a complaint about my 505, ever. I thought the screen had good contrast from the get-go. Both my 350 and 505 have silver bezel, btw, so it's not that.
B) Excessive screen flashing. Right away I felt like the 350 flashes more than my 505. I had gotten so used to the 505 that when I concentrated on the page flashing I realized it does so more than I thought, but it's less than the 350. the 350 has a way of sort of wobbling into the next page, so it's like it flashes twice, almost. or flashes "darker." This bothers me.
overall, i like that it is very light, but I'm bummed at the lack of a way to charge it other than by USB (unless I'm missing something), and I don't like the screen flashing. I want something with side page turn buttons, also. Maybe I'll look at the newly $99 Nook STR, or still wait for the Cybook Odyssey.
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