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Haqqax · 06-04-2010, 09:09 PM

Well, for me THE BIGGEST disadvantage is lack of djvu support.

I used to have BeBook before, and was reading on it constantly. My user experience was great until the screen broke. I mean it - I was very, very, very happy user.

I thought that iRex was better.

But with iRex, although I keep the device handy in my bag (for the time being), I am reading less and less on it. The most interesting books are unreadable, or will weigh 50 - 80 MB after conversion to PDF (and will not fit all on the memory card). I do try to read some historical books in epub format, but this is boring. This reader was supposed to be my study tool, and it became a useless expensive piece of junk in my bag. Last week I did not read anything on it. I find myself again carying paper books or printing lessons to take them with me.

I am sooo much disappointed just because of lack of support for this format, the more so that I know that adding support for it with dvjulibre would be easy.

Evince is unusable because of screen clutter, luite's plugin is not available for DR800, and iRex does not seem to plan adding support for djvu.

I simply made a stupid buying decision and regret it very much. What use is a big screen if it can not display my books?

06-04-2010, 09:09 PM	#28
Haqqax Member Posts: 11 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2010 Device: DR800S	Well, for me THE BIGGEST disadvantage is lack of djvu support. I used to have BeBook before, and was reading on it constantly. My user experience was great until the screen broke. I mean it - I was very, very, very happy user. I thought that iRex was better. But with iRex, although I keep the device handy in my bag (for the time being), I am reading less and less on it. The most interesting books are unreadable, or will weigh 50 - 80 MB after conversion to PDF (and will not fit all on the memory card). I do try to read some historical books in epub format, but this is boring. This reader was supposed to be my study tool, and it became a useless expensive piece of junk in my bag. Last week I did not read anything on it. I find myself again carying paper books or printing lessons to take them with me. I am sooo much disappointed just because of lack of support for this format, the more so that I know that adding support for it with dvjulibre would be easy. Evince is unusable because of screen clutter, luite's plugin is not available for DR800, and iRex does not seem to plan adding support for djvu. I simply made a stupid buying decision and regret it very much. What use is a big screen if it can not display my books?