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Originally Posted by pillacd
Obviously there are limitations: Bluetooth, not WiFi, 5" screen, meant to be paired with a phone. Still...
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Txtr, the company, has a rather bad rep in German ebook circles already, so I'm wary. Their "txtr reader" was scheduled for release in 2009, postponed numerous times, and still has to see the light of day.
As to this device as shown: I hate artificially limited crap. No USB, or WLAN, or storage card? Fine in a bare-bones reader, I suppose, and my Laptop does have Bluetooth. A limit of 5 books? Just plain silly. Proprietary format? Nothing I'm likely to put up with, having a vested interest in standard epubs.
If they provide a PC app that allows me to prepare my existing epubs to their format, maybe, but the way I see it, this is another attempt to tie me to their ecosystem. In that case, thanks, but no thanks; I'd just get myself a Kindle if I approved of that business model.