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Originally Posted by wallcraft
The iLiad works well with both PDFs and ebooks (MOBI, or with FBReader many DRM-free formats). It biggest downside is a poor battery life, ~12 hours, and no sleep mode plus a ~45 second boot time. You may want to wait for: Mainstream iRex 8.1-inch reader for 400$ (rumor). This will probably have software similar to the DR1000S, which is a significant improvement in some ways over the iLiad. |
The issues you raised with the battery life, lack of sleep time and a long boot time is definately a concern. I will wait to see what their newer reader is like in those respects. I have plenty of time seeing as I wont need good PDF support until next year at the outset.