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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Looking at the Pocketbook 360, it looks like a cousin to the Oasis. Have you tried one of those?
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I've had a 7" Oasis for 10 days and had 0 interest in the original Oasis. The only resemblance I see to the PB360 is that the bezel is wider on one side than the other.
Before I get started, I just remembered the the fatal PB360 flaw for me was its tendency to corrupt microSd cards in very short order. I had resigned myself to dealing with the freezes by unplugging and reconnecting the battery, but the frequent SD corruption just was not acceptable. The K4NT has no SD card and is significantly less ergonomic, but it is almost as pocketable, so that rendered the PB360 freezes unacceptable.
The integral clam-shell cover is easy to put on or off and easy to snap on the back, where it does not interfere with reading comfort and the whole thing earns its name by being very pocketable. The controls layout is equally convenient for holding in left or right hand or landscape, thus the 360 part of its name, though I don't see much use in landscape with buttons up. Changing the orientation mode is very quick and easy and the control fuctions automatically change for each orientation in a way that makes sense. what makes the latter remarkable is that every control can be given a user assigned function for both short press and long press. With the right configuration one can page back and forth, follow and return from links and much more without taking a thumb off the 5-way control.
On top of all that, the default reading application can be set for each book and quickly changed at any time. It's been 5 years since I've used it, so there might be other features as well. Overall, for me, it has the best ergonomic design of any reader but it is so unreliable as to be pretty much useless given that there are alternatives good enough to reluctantly use instead.