[Vienna01]

To begin- I have a Sony 500 that has been upgraded to support EPUB format. It does so very well. The Sony is the benchmark against which I will judge the Delstar Openbook on the features they say they support. I use Calibre to convert non-EPUB books.

I ordered the OPENBOOK from Walgreens late at night March 9th.
I received it today, March 16th at noon EDT.I was charged shipping and state sales tax. I charged the order to one of my credit cards.

The packing was good. It should protect it in shipping. There was a clear plastic screen protector over the screen. A green tab is pulled to remove the protector.

I have NOT performed any tests sufficiently to comment on the features & faults.

I was happy that the Walgreens invoice was very clear."This product can be returned at a store". Moreover the invoice has boilerplate that states "If the receipt lists no exceptions, you may follow our standard return policy which offers two simple methods for returning your product." The 2 methods listed are mail it back and take it to store.
Elsewhere on the invoice it says you can return non-prescription products in original condition with receipt within 30 days of order date.

SO I THINK THAT COVERS THE RETURN POLICY. 30 days after date ordered. GOOD!

Unless they start to issue fixes, all the limitations folks are talking about are deal breakers for me. ALSO: I need to find out how it FEELS reading actual books. I understood that it didn't support any DRM formats [including library loans] before I ordered it. No problem there.

Because the Delstar folks told another forum member about fixes today, I think it is not useful for me to comment on its ability to render books properly now. I plan to use the reader to read mostly EPUB format books. But I do expect it to handle PDF fomats at least as well as Sony.

I do not care about features for rendering MP3, JPGs etc-I just care about how it handles ebooks.