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Ham88 · 05-14-2009, 09:30 PM

I love my new jetbook, so this is probably a heavily biased insight into its functions, but anyway. It has great choices of font size (12 to 32). It has three different ways of turning pages, which allow it to be held in varied ways one hands, two hands, no hands! (well not really. The only real problem I came across was updating the firmware as the directions on the 'official' website didn't work and on the ectaco forums there were a different set of directions posted by one of their employees that did work, I thought that was a little sketchy.

It comes with a selection of books on there already. The tagging of author and title are in the format of the file name (authorfirst_authorlast#Title) which I think is handy, except this convention only applies to .txt files. Its abiliy to display pdf files is a little bit disappointing, but if you really need to look at pdfs you'll be able to get by. The battery life isn't really the greatest, I only managed to get two books in before the reader began to warn me that my battery would die if I didn't recharge it now, but I think that is more the simplistic battery meter than the actual battery.

I absolutely love the display, far superior to eink in my opinion, at least better than the screen on the prs-500. The actual interface is really easy as you can use the numbers on he right side to select things on the screen, in addition to text input, which is a little bit iffy. The reader comes with one of those foam cases which I like as with it on the jetbook can still fit in my pocket which means that I don't have to carry my man purse around with me all the time. By pocket I mean my jeans pocket, which is simply amazing.

I'm sorry if this post was terribly unorganized and long but I wan to impress upon you how much I like my Jetbook!

One more thing, it doesn't support DRM which means some people will hate it.

05-14-2009, 09:30 PM	#1
Ham88 Zealot Posts: 134 Karma: 994 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Maine, United States Device: Ectaco Jetbook	My Ectaco Jetbook experiences I love my new jetbook, so this is probably a heavily biased insight into its functions, but anyway. It has great choices of font size (12 to 32). It has three different ways of turning pages, which allow it to be held in varied ways one hands, two hands, no hands! (well not really. The only real problem I came across was updating the firmware as the directions on the 'official' website didn't work and on the ectaco forums there were a different set of directions posted by one of their employees that did work, I thought that was a little sketchy. It comes with a selection of books on there already. The tagging of author and title are in the format of the file name (authorfirst_authorlast#Title) which I think is handy, except this convention only applies to .txt files. Its abiliy to display pdf files is a little bit disappointing, but if you really need to look at pdfs you'll be able to get by. The battery life isn't really the greatest, I only managed to get two books in before the reader began to warn me that my battery would die if I didn't recharge it now, but I think that is more the simplistic battery meter than the actual battery. I absolutely love the display, far superior to eink in my opinion, at least better than the screen on the prs-500. The actual interface is really easy as you can use the numbers on he right side to select things on the screen, in addition to text input, which is a little bit iffy. The reader comes with one of those foam cases which I like as with it on the jetbook can still fit in my pocket which means that I don't have to carry my man purse around with me all the time. By pocket I mean my jeans pocket, which is simply amazing. I'm sorry if this post was terribly unorganized and long but I wan to impress upon you how much I like my Jetbook! One more thing, it doesn't support DRM which means some people will hate it.