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I absolutely love my iRiver Story. I keep meaning to write a long review about just how excellent it is. There is only one feature I would love to see and that that is the ability to edit text files. I am writing a thesis in latex and it is sad that I can open a memo and type words but I can't edit an already existing text file.
Anyway I mostly read pdfs and find that 95% of my pdf files work excellently (with perhaps 40% reflowing perfectly). Epub of course is pretty good too.
As for DOC support. Personally it is irrelevant. However the one time I did need to read a word file on my iriver story I did this: Loaded up XP in virtualbox. Loaded up word-viewer. Opened my word file. Printed it out as a pdf using pdfcreator (free xp pdf print software - that allows you to print out the word document into a pdf). Lastly I ran pdfcrop (a python script which crops out the margins). Ended up with a perfectly readable word doc (in pdf of course)
Long story short. The iRiver is nicer than my girlfriend's Sony prs600. :P
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