So after much internal debate I finally took the dive and ordered a DR1000S (Special thanks to Thiss and the MobileRead flea market
). I've been fiddling around with it all day and I think I've developed ADD now. As I open one document I'm already ready to close it to see how another doc looks with it, don't tell my Iliad I think I'm in love.
Working with Irex's new (for me at least) operating system in the DR1000S from the Iliad is like a Hello World experience. The ability to search in PDFs (I could never figure out how to do that in the Iliad if it was possible) as well as the thumbnail views for PDFs is just so huge for me. A lot of the reading that I do is research reports so having thumbnails to quickly jump to financials or any other areas is sweet. The interface is great I think, I'm still getting used to the buttons I personally like buttons that click so its harder to set them off by accident and I keep getting tempted to push the middle button at the bottom as enter when navigating which instead pops up the menu.
Everything so far has went smoothly. I've already loaded it up with docs and I'm trying to concentrate long enough to read a full doc on there instead of my constant "I wonder what this other document looks like on it", hopefully that will subside in the next couple days and I can get some work done with it.
I was planning on checking and I just havent yet but the device is so light it almost feels lighter than the Iliad, it might just be the weight being distributed differently. I'm still trying to figure out how I'll be able to read it on the train, its a very smooth device and I feel like it could slip right out of my hands which I pray doesn't happen. I have the portfolio-style cover (not the flip one) which is a little bulky and adds considerable weight to the device so I need to figure something else out for that, I liked the little bag that my Iliad had because I could slip the Iliad in and out of it so easily and it was pretty well protected.
I kept getting worried when I was thinking about getting one that I would regret it but now that I've actually used it I can't imagine not having one. I'm still in my honeymoon phase so we'll see if after a week or so it starts crashing or anything like that which would get me upset but with the 1.6 firmware people haven't had as many crashes so I'm very hopeful and with 1.7 right around the corner the good times keep on rolling
Well enough of me rambling I just had to express my excitement that I've finally gotten the device, now its back to some reading or document surfing as I've been doing all day, jeez the documents look so good on it I can hardly even believe it.
Laterz
