07-12-2011, 04:22 PM | #31 | |
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I got a k3, do you think that the screen is much better than pearl?, or not too much difference. thanks for your attention and sorry for my poor english |
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07-12-2011, 08:44 PM | #32 |
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I have added the HD to the E-book Reader Matrix. Some columns are currently blank, let me know if you have the missing info. For example, the number of font sizes.
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07-13-2011, 03:11 AM | #33 | |
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With the iriver you can find a good definition on images but reading in a grey screen is less pleasant. It´s a good device but actually, I'm still prefering my K3.Regards! Hola ersott! Pues no creo que la pantalla del iriver sea mejor, algo distinta, pero no mejor porque tampoco es que tengan muchas diferencias. Lo notaría más con las imágenes, fotos ,etc porque tiene una mejor definicion y se ven mejor pero al ser una pantalla más gris que en el K3, a mi gusto, no es tan agradable la lectura. A no ser que hagan nuevas actualizaciones que mejores varios aspectos, sigo prfiriendo el K3. Saludos! Last edited by jaxsnop; 07-13-2011 at 03:15 AM. |
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07-13-2011, 06:00 AM | #34 |
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Thanks jaxsnop.
I think, I still wainting for kindle 4 ;-) |
07-13-2011, 07:31 AM | #35 |
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Just got the official cover for the Story HD, so here are a few first impressions.
Overall it's quite nice, though it looks and feels noticeably cheaper than the Kindle cover for example. But then again it's only about half the price (19€ vs. 35€). And it's really light too, only ~84g. Once you get it inside the straps (it's harder than it looks), they hold the Story quite tight and secure. What I don't like is the cutout on the back for the power switch. It's too big, badly placed and the cut isn't even straight. Looks like someone cut it out by hand. |
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07-13-2011, 09:14 AM | #37 |
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I remember seeing a review recently which included a close-up of the screen showing the difference the increased resolution made to the rendering of letters. But I can't find it again despite searching around quite a bit. Has anyone else come across this and got the link?
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07-13-2011, 10:19 AM | #38 | |
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07-13-2011, 11:24 AM | #39 |
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Thanks, yeah, that's what I was thinking of.
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07-13-2011, 05:19 PM | #41 | |
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07-14-2011, 07:16 AM | #42 | |
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I published an iriver Story HD review on my webpage ... might be interesting for some german members here: http://cme.at/testbericht/test-iriver-story-hd/
For all non-german folks: I found the Story HDs screen very nice to look at. You clearly can see the difference in font-sharpness compared to the Kindle or Sony readers. For comics and mangas the higher resolution is a big advantage too. Images are much sharper and have much more detail than on the SVGA readers. Another pleasent surprise was the weight. It is noticeable lighter than the Kindle which is a big plus for long reading sessions. However, the Story HD has some downsides: There is no notes-function, no audio support (so no TTS), no wireless connectivity (at least not for the current german version) and no integrated store, which all makes the QWERTY-keyboard a little useless imho. Also the homescreen and overall navigation is not as intuitive as on other readers and the settings are very limited. Quote:
Largest fontsizes compared: No margin settings or any other font settings for that matter. You can organize your books in folders. To do that you need to switch from databse mode to folder mode in the settings. That way you can browse folders on the reader. The sorting options are only available in database mode. You can sort by recently read, favorites, title, author and images (comics, mangas). The search functions allows to look for the filename, meta data seems to be ignored as far as I can tell. Last edited by cme; 07-15-2011 at 03:25 AM. |
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07-14-2011, 10:46 PM | #43 |
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I am interested in the Story HD because of the Google Reader, in relation to the scanned and OCR'd free books at Google Books. Online, in one's browser, one can switch between the PDF and the OCR'd text (epub). The Android Google Reader very gracefully switches between PDF (scanned image) and epub (searchable text) for the free Google books. One doesn't have to download two copies, etc. One doesn't even need to know how to spell PDF or epub -- the tool presents them as image and searchable, flowable text. Can anyone tell me whether the Google Reader software on the Story HD behaves this way?
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07-14-2011, 10:52 PM | #44 |
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Oh, also I like to pretend to read books in Russian. I realize that the ebooks themselves usually contain the fonts necessary to display the text. But on my Sony the titles in the lists of books all looked like "???? ?? ????? ???" until I found a way to substitute Russian for Dutch. What device-level (i.e., menus, book lists, etc.) languages does the USA version support? Have previous Story readers been enhanced by clever Russians to include Cyrillic?
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07-15-2011, 05:34 AM | #45 |
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Russian is among the supported languages. Do you have any eBook I could try it with?
As for the PDF/epub thing: The google-version of the reader isn't released yet, but from judging from the german version, I'm pretty sure it will be a regular epub download. Google Books is an open platform, which iriver decided to use. The software still comes from iriver. |
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