MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Cool-er: light, trendy, inexpensive e-book reader

brecklundin · 05-28-2009, 02:07 AM

I agree it is a very strange commentary on the device. I would not go so far as to call it a true review. There are some comments which are, well, not sarcasm exactly, but ...ummmm...strange to say the least.

I really did not see much about actually reading on the device. I did like the comments about fit and finish, but even those comments seem very biased as if the writer does not believe a less expensive device can serve as well or better than a $500 device.

There are reasons it might be nice, especially if it can be flashed with other firmware, which will affect the UI.

I would expect this to be on of the first $150ish range devices at retail. The colors and logo are the turn off for me. Hard to tell the colors since most of the photo's are far from well exposed. Still a bit of bondo, some sanding and Krylon can do wonders to the gawd awful logo on the back...

05-28-2009, 02:07 AM	#206
brecklundin Banned Posts: 1,906 Karma: 15348 Join Date: Jun 2007 Device: mine	I agree it is a very strange commentary on the device. I would not go so far as to call it a true review. There are some comments which are, well, not sarcasm exactly, but ...ummmm...strange to say the least. I really did not see much about actually reading on the device. I did like the comments about fit and finish, but even those comments seem very biased as if the writer does not believe a less expensive device can serve as well or better than a $500 device. There are reasons it might be nice, especially if it can be flashed with other firmware, which will affect the UI. I would expect this to be on of the first $150ish range devices at retail. The colors and logo are the turn off for me. Hard to tell the colors since most of the photo's are far from well exposed. Still a bit of bondo, some sanding and Krylon can do wonders to the gawd awful logo on the back...