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Order # 1005:
Mine arrived this morning. I was surprised because I was not expecting it for another 5 days and had received no email from UPS.
The first thing I did was to re-charge the battery. After about 30 mins I didn't notice any change in the battery symbol - it still looked empty. But when I changed to another page the symbol appeared full.
I nervously played around with it for a few hours. I experimented by loading various PDF's I had created onto a compact flash card to see what size font suited me best. I decided Verdana at size 14pt gave me the most comfortable reading experience for my eyesight. The screen is a most beautiful thing - I absolutely love it.
The device came with version 2.4 on it and I knew I would have to connect it via iDS and update to the latest version. But I was very hesitant about this (I am a coward) and decided instead to go shopping to see if I could find myself a case for it.
I couldn't find a suitable case so I came back home and cut up an old leather handbag and stitched a very basic envelope shape for it on my sewing machine. It aint bad even if I say so myself.
Not feeling able to put off updating the software any longer I read the instructions several times but still felt unsure about it. I have a Belkin wireless router but after reading dire warnings about connecting wirelessly in this forum I nervously connected a cat5 cable to my router and to the iLiad.
Pressed the connect button for 2 seconds and lo and behold the new software downloaded to 100% very quickly. Once finished downloading the iLian switched itself off. I turned it back on and the new software then installed itself (very slowly I must add) and now I have version 2.6 on the device.
I don't want to jinx myself but all in all I am a very happy bunny.
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