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Old 05-31-2006, 11:37 AM   #48
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Device: Iliad
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Originally Posted by High 5
It's big and heavy.
Definitely not a device to carry around with you all day.
Clear and crisp reading but at a price: you need a small powerplant to go with it.
I must leave it plugged in to the power every (!) night.
the device resets if the battery runs out (about 1 to 3 hours).
It is impossible to read the backlit screen outdoors if the sun shines.
Apart from that, it can handle quite a lot of textformats and the after sales service is very, very good.

It has all sorts of nice features that you'll never use.
Yeah, power was the big concern when I saw it. International flights are the norm for me (I travel 3-5 times outside the US every year, maybe 1-2 times in the US by air). SO, my 'minimum' requirement I've defined as acceptable is 14 hours of time with at most 1 battery change. But the pictures look nice and I like Mobipocket (the library uses that format). Sigh...
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