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Originally Posted by Counter
if shades of grey were not an issue, the E-Slick and Ezreader are neck and neck.
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I'm not sure that the Cool-er has 8 grey scales. The
E-book Reader Matrix says 4 gray scales, but that isn't definitive (since I made this entry). The first Cool-er's were definitely standard Netronix EB600's, like the eSlick, with 4 gray scales. There is now an EB600 variant with 8 gray scales (the Astak Mentor Lite 2), but so far as I know the Cool-er is still 4 gray scales in hardware. All these devices have software dithering for more grey scales in images.
I recommend the EZ Reader Basic. Like the EB600, it is an older design but generally this means that the firmware is more robust. The problem with the Cool-er is that it is using Netronix firmware and Netronix only recently started distributing full-up Reader firmware. If I was buying a EB600-based device today it would probably be the PocketBook 301, with very good in-house firmware. The Jinke firmware for the EZ Reader Basic is pretty good, with frequent updates and some input from independent vendors of the device. I use OpenInkPot on my EZ Reader Basic, which is an alternative Open Source firmware that does not support DRM. It uses FBReader, like PocketBook, but PocketBook has both FBReader and Adobe Digital Editions on their devices.