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Originally Posted by mimosavj
The "not sold in USA" is the problem. I used to have a PB360 and loved it until I moved to a bigger screen. I loved every software feature of the PB, especially my sheep wallpaper, absolutely beautiful, and also the fact that everytime the PB360 screen froze, I just took out the battery and replugged it in, and voila it worked again (non other ebook readers allow that). Sigh!! If PocketBook 623 Touch Lux comes to the USA, I might be very tempted to try it again.
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You might remember we have bitterly complained that PB sold their readers (PB360) much cheaper in USA than here in Europe and especially in Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia ...
It was extremely unfair for them to make Ukrainians and Russians pay much more (and possibly even sponsor units for USA market), because income of an average working person in former socialistic country is significantly lower than in USA.
PocketBook solved the problem by leaving the US market. Not being able to compete against Amazon, Kobo, Sony and Barns and Noble on sheer price might have played some role too ;-). Technologically, PocketBooks were one of the very best readers, but most people do not research what they buy, they simply choose the cheapest unit. Or best advertised one.
On the newest models you can't remove battery anymore, but so far I haven't used even a reset button. Despite my wild tests and playing with all sorts of stuff on my reader.
And it still has features that no other reader can offer. Like multitasking. Yes, you can have several books (plus browser and a few other apps) opened at the same time and switch between them quickly.