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fjtorres · 07-07-2010, 10:01 AM

The Hanlin ebook readers are good readers; they're just not great.
They do a lot of things well enough to be worth consideration.
Unfortunately for them, some of their competitors (in price and targetted market) are in fact *great* at what they actually do.

I own a Hanlin V3; I got it because of the LIT support.
I eventually figured out how to get through a full LIT book without a crash but it pretty much excludes all BAEN lits.
Everything else, from RTF to ePub it is just adequate. (With *any* of the available firmwares.) And adequate is fine, *if* there are no better alternatives. When I got mine two years ago there were no better alternatives.
Today they are.

Let's just say that stability is *not* one of the things my BeBook does well-enough and leave it at that.

07-07-2010, 10:01 AM	#49
fjtorres Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,732 Karma: 128354696 Join Date: May 2009 Location: 26 kly from Sgr A* Device: T100TA,PW2,PRS-T1,KT,FireHD 8.9,K2, PB360,BeBook One,Axim51v,TC1000	The Hanlin ebook readers are good readers; they're just not great. They do a lot of things well enough to be worth consideration. Unfortunately for them, some of their competitors (in price and targetted market) are in fact great at what they actually do. I own a Hanlin V3; I got it because of the LIT support. I eventually figured out how to get through a full LIT book without a crash but it pretty much excludes all BAEN lits. Everything else, from RTF to ePub it is just adequate. (With any of the available firmwares.) And adequate is fine, if there are no better alternatives. When I got mine two years ago there were no better alternatives. Today they are. Let's just say that stability is not one of the things my BeBook does well-enough and leave it at that.