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Originally Posted by ali
1 - the documentation is missing. Even you, jęd, weren't able to turn it on. Read old posts in this forum to find your post where you asked where the on/off switch is.
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Originally Posted by Review
The documentation did not come with the device. The only paper was a 5×7 sheet that welcomes you to the world of electronic reading and then warns you that if the iLiad runs out of power your unit will be irrevocably damaged. Interestingly enough, there is no indication that you should charge the machine before turning it on, or indeed, how to do that.
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There is documentaion on the device. And she's misread the only piece of paper documentation. This is why I claim her review is inaccurate...
Yep, the on-switch could be made more obvious. I've never disagreed with that...! But I've never misled someone about the documentation that came with the device...
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Originally Posted by Review
2 - the screen displays content in an unreadable font size. the folks at irex did not implement anything to make generally available content readable on the device, even though that would've been possible.
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Depends what you call an unreadable font size... If you use A5 documents then the font size is quite readable. An Irex have said they will be implementing zooming real soon now...
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Originally Posted by Review
3 - it doesn't read protected pdfs, which is a killer for people who need to read protected pdfs. She got a point there. This forum is full of people asking for DRM / protected PDF support.
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Have Irex ever stated that it does...?
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Originally Posted by ali
The review is just a normal review of just one of the dissappointed Iliad customers. She expressed her opinion, and is right in doing so. (Is this one of the "if you're not with us you're against us" things? Too many americans in the forum?). If I bought a mp3 player and see that I have to manually reencode all my mp3's to fit the device's needs, I'd turn it down and say it's shit. Even if there's a forum where most guys happen to listen to the matching 118-kps-mono-mp3's only.
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Interestingly enough, I bought one of the early mp3 players. Its battery life was terrible (1 x AA battery lasterd five hours) and it wouldn't play mp3 that weren't encoded at 128 kps... Yep it was a bit shit, but like the illiad for e-readers, it was one of the very few mp3 players available.
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Originally Posted by ali
And: "Reading everything" doesn't literally mean "everything". If you read all info in the shop, ask the manufacturer, and possibly newspaper articles and tests, it should be enough. You don't have to read every forum on the internet.
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Well... If you promote yourself as a tech-savvy e-publishing person, I expect you to a search on what you are reviewing. And for me this forum is in the top five results for "irex illiad". And its not like there's a ton of information about the illiad on the Internet...!
And yes, I can take critical reviews of illiad, its just misleading and inaccurate one I don't like...! Yep, the illiad is a bit "shit", but since I purchased mine its slowly got better...