I stopped by my local Kmart store Monday night, and much to my surprise they had The Book in stock. I bought one, and I opened the box before before leaving the parking lot. I have to say I’m rather impressed. It’s not perfect, but in the sub $100 price range it’s fairly good.
High points
- cheap
- decent battery life (I’m expecting at least 15+ hours)
- can be used one handed
- decent build quality
- accelerometer
- works in sunlight
Low points
- poor keyboard
- few annotation options
- it keeps forgetting the SD card
- really bad Wifi reception
In the box
Normally I’d skip this part, but I wanted to point out that there is a user manual with a CD. It has the calibre install files on it on it. I just find that rather amusing, that’s all. You also get the following in the box:
- The Book e-reader
- case
- USB cable
- power supply
- user manual
The Book also comes with 150 ebooks from Project Gutenberg. I would delete them if I were you. You can get much better copies elsewhere for free.
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