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Elfwreck · 06-20-2009, 01:36 PM

I send this off to support@coolreaders.com (and completely forgot that the name of the device is "Cool-ER," not "coolreader." Oh well.)

I'll let you know what answers I get. In the meantime, if anyone else has answers, I'm happy to collect those as well. FWIW, I'm not looking at buying a Cool-ER; I believe I could get another PRS-505 for about the same amount. But not everyone has that option, or wants it. And I'd like to know Cool-ER's official answers to these, as well as the info that "we all know" because we know what company makes the basic hardware they're selling.

* Is there a user manual for the Coolreader, and would you consider making it publicly available so that people can understand the features before they buy?

* Does the Coolreader support folders? (If I create folders in the Coolreader, will the interface let me click through those to find the books I want, or does it just sort them all by title/author, and I'd have to remember what category they are?)

* Does it need or want software--is there an interface, perhaps some kind of library program that allows editing of metadata or sorting of categories, to manage books and move them from the computer to the Coolreader?

* How many shades of grayscale does it support?

* What DRM'd formats does the Coolreader support?

* Do any of the books sold at Coolerbooks.com require DRM software, or are the books sold there without DRM?

* The books listed as "Digital Editions"--are they ePubs, or PDFs? While both read about equally well on a computer, they aren't the same when transferred to portable readers; I'm much more interested in ePub books than PDFs.

* Is there a way to filter searches at Coolerbooks by filetype, to say "only show me books by [AUTHOR] in filetypes I can use?"

06-20-2009, 01:36 PM	#1
Elfwreck Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,187 Karma: 25133758 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: SF Bay Area, California, USA Device: Pocketbook Touch HD3 (Past: Kobo Mini, PEZ, PRS-505, Clié)	Cool-ER/Coolerbooks.com questions I send this off to support@coolreaders.com (and completely forgot that the name of the device is "Cool-ER," not "coolreader." Oh well.) I'll let you know what answers I get. In the meantime, if anyone else has answers, I'm happy to collect those as well. FWIW, I'm not looking at buying a Cool-ER; I believe I could get another PRS-505 for about the same amount. But not everyone has that option, or wants it. And I'd like to know Cool-ER's official answers to these, as well as the info that "we all know" because we know what company makes the basic hardware they're selling. * Is there a user manual for the Coolreader, and would you consider making it publicly available so that people can understand the features before they buy? * Does the Coolreader support folders? (If I create folders in the Coolreader, will the interface let me click through those to find the books I want, or does it just sort them all by title/author, and I'd have to remember what category they are?) * Does it need or want software--is there an interface, perhaps some kind of library program that allows editing of metadata or sorting of categories, to manage books and move them from the computer to the Coolreader? * How many shades of grayscale does it support? * What DRM'd formats does the Coolreader support? * Do any of the books sold at Coolerbooks.com require DRM software, or are the books sold there without DRM? * The books listed as "Digital Editions"--are they ePubs, or PDFs? While both read about equally well on a computer, they aren't the same when transferred to portable readers; I'm much more interested in ePub books than PDFs. * Is there a way to filter searches at Coolerbooks by filetype, to say "only show me books by [AUTHOR] in filetypes I can use?"