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slayda · 12-08-2008, 11:41 PM

Got mine today, late. It's charging now. Has some very nice features but I don't like it's native font (ibookn). I tried to add a font as per their instructions (i.e. put them in a "font" folder at the root of the SD card). So far they are unrecognized. Sent an email to their tech support for clarification.

One thing I really like is that I can put each author in a folder or each genre in a folder with the author in sub-folders and view my books by folder and/or sub-folder.

It has a nice look and the "crush resistant" case seems stronger than the Sony PRS-500 and the Cybook Gen3 cases.

You can either charge it via the USB to computer or "connect" to computer for downloading but not both at the same time. It is a simple matter when the USB is plugged into the computer to choose one or the other. To switch, you unplug and replug and then choose the other one.

There are 22 different languages supported. From my memory, there is German, French, Italian, Spanish, English, Russian, Greek, Turkish, Korean, Japanese, and several others (two appear to be Chinese or something similar). I'll post a list when the unit is charged and I can "scan" an image of the screens.

Most of the "free" classics somehow showed up on the SD card without my putting them there. The card seemed to be a new out of srinkwrap SD card so I'm not sure how that happened. All of those were .txt files from Project Gutenburg. There were some others that showed up on the internal memory that, I think, were .prc files, probably also from Project Gutenburg but I'm not sure.

You get 8 books or folders per page and there are two ways to advance the pages (i.e. two sets of buttons - one set on the left side much like the buttons on the PRS-500, and another set on the 9 & 0 keys. Along the bottom there are two rows of buttons, 1 -5 & 6 - 0, plus a large "double button on the lower right for the menu (the "OK" button) and a back arrow button for going to the previous menu.

More later.

12-08-2008, 11:41 PM	#15
slayda Retired & reading more! Posts: 2,764 Karma: 1884247 Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: North Alabama, USA Device: Kindle 1, iPad Air 2, iPhone 6S+, Kobo Aura One	Got mine today, late. It's charging now. Has some very nice features but I don't like it's native font (ibookn). I tried to add a font as per their instructions (i.e. put them in a "font" folder at the root of the SD card). So far they are unrecognized. Sent an email to their tech support for clarification. One thing I really like is that I can put each author in a folder or each genre in a folder with the author in sub-folders and view my books by folder and/or sub-folder. It has a nice look and the "crush resistant" case seems stronger than the Sony PRS-500 and the Cybook Gen3 cases. You can either charge it via the USB to computer or "connect" to computer for downloading but not both at the same time. It is a simple matter when the USB is plugged into the computer to choose one or the other. To switch, you unplug and replug and then choose the other one. There are 22 different languages supported. From my memory, there is German, French, Italian, Spanish, English, Russian, Greek, Turkish, Korean, Japanese, and several others (two appear to be Chinese or something similar). I'll post a list when the unit is charged and I can "scan" an image of the screens. Most of the "free" classics somehow showed up on the SD card without my putting them there. The card seemed to be a new out of srinkwrap SD card so I'm not sure how that happened. All of those were .txt files from Project Gutenburg. There were some others that showed up on the internal memory that, I think, were .prc files, probably also from Project Gutenburg but I'm not sure. You get 8 books or folders per page and there are two ways to advance the pages (i.e. two sets of buttons - one set on the left side much like the buttons on the PRS-500, and another set on the 9 & 0 keys. Along the bottom there are two rows of buttons, 1 -5 & 6 - 0, plus a large "double button on the lower right for the menu (the "OK" button) and a back arrow button for going to the previous menu. More later. Last edited by slayda; 12-08-2008 at 11:45 PM.