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Originally Posted by Gertjan
When the DR1000 was introduced, the Adobe Mobile SDK didn't even exist. When Adobe anounced their SDK (February this year), IREX was among the first companies to license the technology. Unfortunately there is no firmware release for DR1000 yet, but the forthcoming DR800 is said to use it.
As for the Iliad, as far as I know there are hardware limitations which prevent decent sleep or hibernate functionality. I agree this could have been solved but it's no suprise that IREX does not actively develop for this device anymore. Given the form factor, DR800 is its obvious successor of the Illiad, and it does feature semi-instant resume from standby.
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I had a BeBook (Hanlin v3) before I bought the DR1000. I ditched the BeBook because the 4 levels of greyscale on the 6" screen and it's inability to zoom/pan or PDF reflow made reading my textbooks impossible.
The DRs larger screen, greyscales and zooming made reading my PDF text books easy, so it was at the time the only logical albeit horrendously expensive choice.
I never expected the Astak PP to be able to compare. I bought it because I missed reading my novels. However, the speed and features and simplicity of the Hanlin v3 based BeBook have been passed on to the Hanlin v5 based Astak and throw in the PDF reflow and the fact that I can actually read my textbooks too and overall, device is amazingly useful.
The DR's inability to just stop reading where I was and return exactly to that spot an hour or two later was a killer!
To have to remember to turn the DR off if I didn't want to waste precious battery life and then go through the rigmarole of turning it back on, wait for the boot up, finding my document (if it wasn't one I'd created a short cut for) and opening it and waiting for it to open it... by the time the document was loaded again and I was ready to read, I'd often run out of the small pocket of time I had to read in or been put out of the mood. I asked over and over again on forums for a shutdown and start up script from iRex that would make a note of what documents were open, seeing as the existing software kept track of where you were in the document, and have that reopen all the documents again upon boot up. An easy thing that would have saved so much frustration while they sorted out their battery woes.
Throw in the slow speed with which it flicks through pages...
The only way to avoid the above was to keep the DR either on Mains power or on a USB cable tethered to a computer and this was ultimately my DRs undoing. I tripped over the cable and bang.
I want my DR repaired by my home insurance, as I miss the large screen, but if they refuse to repair it or just give me cash to cover the claim, I won't be buying another DR.