iRex iLiad eReader 2nd Edtion ER0141-002-000

iRex iLiad eReader 2nd Edtion ER0141-002-000
From iRex Technologies

The iLiad is a personal electronic device that stores digital content for readers on the go.
It is lightweight, daylight readable, and convenient for the beach, the train, the living room or the office.
Read and write on the iLiad.
Stores thousands of books with optional memory.
The iLiad includes a 12 month Manufacturers warranty; the manufacturer pays shipping both ways.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17179 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: iLiad 2nd Edition
• Model: ER0141-002-000

Features

• Read digital text from the iLiad. Print your favorite pdfs to the document folder for viewing while you're on the go.
• The iLiad has a Mobipocket viewer. Mobipocket.com is an Amazon Company. There are 50K + ebooks for sale. Download eBooks to your iLiad and read Best Sellers. Free eBooks from www.manybooks.net in iLiad optimized pdfs.
• The iLiad connects to a mac or PC via USB. Transfer ebooks, pdfs, html, and other file formats to the iLiad for reading. HTML hyperlinks and linked pdfs work using the iLiad's stylus
• Write on the iLiad. The iLiad stores personal notes in a Vision Objects file format. Files transfered to a PC can be trasnslated to .txt with MyScript Notes optional software.
• 8.1" ePaper display is daylight readable, almost twice the size and resolution of the Kindle and Sony Reader.

Customer Reviews

Great Ebook Reader
This is an excellent ebook reader. I use it all the time to read architectural documents and sketch drawings.

lots of potential, short on realization
This device has a lot of capabilities, but you have to write your own software to be able to take advantage of them. After reading reviews of the Kindle and the Sony reader, I bought an iliad, because I want to carry around and read professional documents, such as patents, in PDF format, without too much hassle. As it has been remarked in an earlier review, the manual and online/e-mail help is next to useless.
I do not plan to write my own software, but I made a gamble that sooner or later authorized software will become available.
For example, the iliad has the capability to allow you to buy or access content via WIFI, but this capability is not currently realized, except for direct download of upgrades from the company, irex.
For recreational use, I plan to buy the Kindle when more Amazon books become available in the Kindle format.

One Very Expensive Headache
At about $600, this item is massively expensive.
But I figured, the features and quality will be worth what I've paid. The iLiad has been nothing but trouble since I got it.
The software is not compatible with Vista. When you get on the Mobipocket FAQ site to try to manually move items, the other dissatisfied consumers will help you before one of the techs finally gets around to responding in English that is so badly broken as to be incomprehensible. I finally just gave up and loaded the thing onto an XP and downloaded some books.
I went to expand the memory and got a Compact Flash card.
There is literally NO reference in the User's Manual as to how you should go about installing, transferring or accessing your books on the card. The entry literally just tells you "CF Card Slot.
This is a slot for a CF card." Thanks, that was helpful. I would implore all of you: buy the Sony product for 1/3 the price and when you go to their affiliated ebook site, you'll pay about 1/3 of what you will pay for the same titles on Mobipocket. (Seriously, most Mobipocket books cost about what a hardcopy of the book will run you at a bookstore.) Immensely dissatisfied.