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Originally Posted by Katelyn
I tested some PDF documents and this is not the reader for you if you plan to use PDF files. You will open the file and see a very tiny document. You have maybe 6? levels of zoom and it took me until level 3 or 4 to get the text large enough to read. then you have to pan up, down left or right to read everything. It's just a large image that you move around the screen.
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Oh, that's a shame. That really was my main interest in getting the reader, and it sounds like it's not going to do it for me
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The device was released before it was ready but I will give Delstar credit for jumping in within a day to get an update out. Since the update is in Chinese, I imagine they are the are just passing along what they got from the Chinese manufacturer of the reader. I don't have any problems with crashes or charging (when fully charged, I also get the lighting bolt in the battery icon even when not charging). I just want the files to be formatted correctly and don't want a plain text reader so I am returning it.
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I've been doing some digging around on the internet looking at alternative devices as I was waiting for my Delstar to appear, and it turns out that there are a lot of these devices that use the "Rockchip 2808" processor; most of them
are "personal media players" so I'm not really surprised that this plays AVIs, etc. It looks like the ebook functionality is an afterthought on most of them - and I guess that includes this one as well.
For those of you who wish to remain hopeful, I should note that at least several of the other devices based on this chipset are running/are planned to run Android, which - if it could be brought to the Delstar - would make this a very attractive device. But whether or not Delstar (or its suppliers) can do this, or can do this in a reasonable time, is something I don't know.
Sounds like mine will go back as soon as it arrives today, based on what everyone else is saying