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markiehill · 01-08-2007, 10:00 AM

Funny you should say that, i was just looking at the sony reader and thinking exactly the same.

The page bar thing is also very annoying and getting on my nerves, not sure if its a hardware or software thing but its driving me nuts when it happens.

The biggest killer though is lack of instant on, i mean every time i think about reading for 10-20 minutes i have to boot the thing up wait for it... i know its only twenty seconds or so, but its the whole process that just seems wrong.

Plus the faffing about with formats that i have to do, which i got working on windows last night with wordpad rather than word and pdf creator, the whole process just feels slow slow slow.

I really want the Illiad to be a success, but i have seen so many technologies come and go that i am over 70% confident that Irex will not be doing this in a years time unless a major change of direction is taken.

Mark

01-08-2007, 10:00 AM	#78
markiehill Connoisseur Posts: 94 Karma: 192 Join Date: Jul 2006	Funny you should say that, i was just looking at the sony reader and thinking exactly the same. The page bar thing is also very annoying and getting on my nerves, not sure if its a hardware or software thing but its driving me nuts when it happens. The biggest killer though is lack of instant on, i mean every time i think about reading for 10-20 minutes i have to boot the thing up wait for it... i know its only twenty seconds or so, but its the whole process that just seems wrong. Plus the faffing about with formats that i have to do, which i got working on windows last night with wordpad rather than word and pdf creator, the whole process just feels slow slow slow. I really want the Illiad to be a success, but i have seen so many technologies come and go that i am over 70% confident that Irex will not be doing this in a years time unless a major change of direction is taken. Mark Last edited by markiehill; 01-08-2007 at 10:02 AM.