[mtravellerh]

26 nov noon

My (better: my daughter's) Pocketbook 360 showed up half an hour ago! The courier service was faster than I first thought. Nice!

The package was really secure and the 360 made it without a hitch. I won't offer depackaging pics as they abound already around here. The case and the screen appear small, smaller than I thought at first. In fact, it seems to be only half as big as the Cool-er. There is a surprising amount of text on the screen, though! It is very very lightweight, too.

Although the battery was fully loaded, I connected the engine to my netbook (Ubuntu 9.10) at once. It was recognized by Calibre as EB600 at once! It rests as Pocket101 on my desktop as I'm writing this.

I couldn't stop myself from playing around with it a bit before connecting, of course.

There were a few epubs and one FB2 installed. The ePub looks a lot crisper than on my Cool-er, too while the FB2 is a sensation (it's some Sherlock Holmes, by the way). The page numbers on the side in the epubs are VERY frustrating! Note to self: Find out as fast as possible how to open those epubs with FBReader!

The cover is handy and seems surprisingly sturdy! I like the easy way it can be handled. The moving sensor works fine (I am surprised by this, as some people said the contrary). I think it's quite irritating, though, so I changed it to manual. The color of the 360 is more silver than ivory, by the way, and seems quite glossy!

I am surprised, too, by the overal speed of navigationin the menu and when turning pages!

Note: I will continue this diary as I will go along. You're, of course free to jump in whenever you feel the itch!