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Originally Posted by pilotbob
Yes, I have an eval unit. I am working on the review now. I agree there is a bit of a glare... but usally for me holding it at a slightly different angle got rid of it. I haven't tried it outside though. Working on the review and pics, hope to have it up soon.
BOb
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Looking forward to it. The glare seems to be a much bigger problem for you than for me. I just can't use the Jetbook with my overhead light as I have to juggle it constantly to get rid of the glare.
About the Cybook: The biggest problem I have with it by far is not so much the dropped bookmarks and lost places in books I'm reading...it's the lack of a numeric readout for the page one is on.
Cybook has a 'go to' utility where you type in the page you want--say 399 of 780. But its fishing in the dark 'cause you don't know what page you are on and you have no display of where you are (except a page bar) when you get there. It's absolutely criminal!! ALL the other devices give you some numeric indication of where you are in a book.
The Sony & Jetbook have the easiest utilities to enter a page number and go there. With Sony just type the number and hit enter. With Jetbook hit 5 then the number then enter.
Why Cybook left this off is beyond me, as they use page numbering for searches (as I descibed). All the user has is a page bar, as with Iiad, but no numeric readout.
The number of pages changes with the font size on any of the devices, but that's not reason for Cybook to make it so dang hard to use the go to utility. None of the other dedicated readers have chosen to shortchange the user in this way. I have to find my numeric place in another device (Sony, Iliad, etc.) and guesstimate where I want to go in Cybook. Most irritating!!
I suspect Harry will shoulder up his lance, pull down his visor and try to skewer my remarks. Lay on MacDuff!