I have just bought M92 in order to replace my well-loved iRex iLiad v1 which served me well for many productive years (4 or 5, I believe), but its battery has finally died so I had to retire it.
I'm very happy with my new M92, and wanted to share my first impressions. But first, a quick note about what I wanted from it. My needs are mostly academic and simple. I wanted something that reads PDF-s easily (not too slow, good zooming options, good-sized screen) and that allows me to scribble on the text, merge the scribbles easily with the original PDF and export the merged file to the PC.
For this, M92 is perfect. I love the size of the screen which allows me to read a PDF even without the need for zoom it or rotate the screen (though, this is possible). I just crop the margins (which is one of the zooming functions), and that is fine. But, there are many other zooming options, so I'm set for that as well. Contrast of the screen is great as well, so thumbs up (my husband has Cybook for fiction reading, and while it's a good device in general, its contrast was poor compared to my iLiad - contrast on M92 is, I think, even better than on iLiad)
The scribble function (they call it "sketch") is fine as well, the stylus sensitivity is mostly ok (it could be more precise, but well, it's good enough). Merging scribbles/sketches with original pdf is easy - I just need to press "Merge sketch" and this creates another merged PDF which adds date and time to the file name and which is then easily copied to PC.
However, what I would like and which, as far as I can see, it's not possible right now is to have an option to replace the old PDF with the new merged one. So, when I press "Merge Sketch", there would be an option: "Create new file" or "Replace original file".
Also, a slight annoyance is that I don't see a way to change default options. So, every time I open a PDF, I need to set the "Crop Margin" function and put it into the Sketch mode. I would like to be able to make this a default for every PDF I open.
There is also an Annotate option, which is nice, but I don't really use it, since I prefer to scribble. It is my understanding that annotations cannot be merged and exported to PC. As I said, I don't really mind, as I prefer scribbling, but that would be a nice thing to have.
I have tried connecting to net and searching the Wikipedia, but that was too slow to be usable. However, I know this is not a tablet, I just wanted a simple no-frills ebook reader (and scribbler
) and I'm satisfied with this one.
