My FamilyPad2 was received just yesterday morning!
I'm still trying that so I can't really do a complete review.
My first interest was reading technical large-size papers, then magazines, comics/manga...
So at first I had to choose the perfect PDF reader for that. I've tried 5 of them with the best advises and finally, I found
EbookDroid the best of them!
You can crop pages (automatically) and scroll from one pages to another WITHOUT losing the cropping. you can flip horizontally in just one touch, the book library on the shelf is very pleasant (you can even change the thumbnail images), you can bookmark very easily, etc... and it's free
That done, let's speak about the device per se.
The screen size is really its bigget asset. If you crop just a little the white interval (found in all the technical papers, magazines), the pages fits exactly in the screen, without zooming.
The CPU makes the pages flipping instantly (For that, you have to change a little the settings in Ebookdroid to make it load 16 pages constantly in memory). Absolutely no waiting time between pages in your reading is really comfortable (I had a Eink Pocketbook pro 903 reader so I can say that reading heavy articles with graphs, images can be annoying on this).
And it's fanless! I am really relieved after the Asus Tablet PC that I had too!
For the moment the disadvantages of this device are already known so no real surprises here:
You can feel the 1.3kg if you're holding the screen not resting on table. Personally, I always read books resting on my legs, bed, table, holding only the top side to keep the equilibrium. so I don't really feel the weight even after long reading period.
It's not a retina screen: After all, the FamilyPad2 costs "only" 300€. So you can't watch HD movie in their exact beauty if you are sideways. Even ebooks, It's better to put the Familypad not completly horizontal on the table (the prop shipped with the device is quite handy for that but only suitable when reading in landscape mode)
Unfortunately it's not a 4:3 screen but 16:9 but it seems to be the norm now for most of android tablets sadly.
In conclusion, I am satisfied by the Familypad2. It is suited to my needs of a large size PDF reader which can : run very smoothly heavy A4 PDFs, and especially WITHOUT noise.
If you have these types of needs, I think you won't have any bad surprises with the Familypad2. and for not a so large amount of money...