Thread: Astak Mentor eBook readers with WiFi and Touchscreen (read-only)
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Old 07-24-2009, 09:06 PM   #2881
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Originally Posted by Robertb View Post
Dear Griffonwing:

Fully agree. The plain target for the large 8 by 10 Plastic Logic device is going to be textbooks, magazines and newspapers.

The target audience for the 5 inch P.P. is all about instantaneous response and convenience. The P.P. will play the music while people read eBooks or they go into TTS and listen to the books while reading a newspaper. When they are done, they pop it into their pants pocket or purse and go off for adventure.

NOW... let me deal with a certain video that people are talking about! At last year's CES I MENTIONED that MY blue EZ Reader had been dropped off of tables by customers while playing with it. I did NOT say "I recommend taking the EZ Reader and dropping it off a table". I did not say "dropping it off a table is a great idea". I did not say "it will always survive being dropped off a table". I certainly did not say "try running your car over the crush-resistant case".

Some weasles have been returning easy-to-see abused product back claiming RobertB says it will take the pounding of dropping it!!

READ THE USER MANUAL!! It says: "treat your EZ Reader like any fine electronic instrument". It says "be careful and treat it like you want it to last". For God's sakes, people, USE your heads (all two of them in some cases). It is a very well built machine that HAS stood up to a drop. That does NOT mean I advise dropping it. It certainly does not mean "stands up to any abuse and keeps on ticking". It means FOR A SIMILAR MOBILE BOOK READER THIS ONE OFTEN FORGIVES SOME SANE AMOUNT OF ABUSE...BUT NO GUARANTEE!!

Jesus, I treat all of you as intelligent and learned people who know how to treat an electronic device. Don't come back saying "RobertB suggests dropping it off a cliff and it will be good for it". This is unfathomable to me that people would take a video to mean "it is impervious to dropping"!!

O.K.: DO NOT DROP YOUR EZ READER!!! IT MAY VOID YOUR WARRANTY IF WE SEE OBVIOUS CARELESSNESS OR PURPOSEFUL NEGLECT!!

My GOD... this is amazing!!!
Bugger it! There go my weekend plans!
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