Comments on: Reader of Books http://blog.soapyfrog.com/2009/10/24/reader-of-books/ curry-induced ramblings of a forty-something techie Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:07:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: thetechnobear http://blog.soapyfrog.com/2009/10/24/reader-of-books/comment-page-1/#comment-563 thetechnobear Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:39:31 +0000 http://blog.soapyfrog.com/?p=445#comment-563 ah, about the same as Iliad. as you say it's fine when 'reading' , you preempt it. just a pain when scanning thru a PDF. but hey that's the tech, and partly why the power lasts soooo long :) ah, about the same as Iliad.
as you say it’s fine when ‘reading’ , you preempt it. just a pain when scanning thru a PDF. but hey that’s the tech, and partly why the power lasts soooo long :)

]]> By: Adrian http://blog.soapyfrog.com/2009/10/24/reader-of-books/comment-page-1/#comment-562 Adrian Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:31:00 +0000 http://blog.soapyfrog.com/?p=445#comment-562 Page turning takes a little over a second maybe, and still does the whole invert+redraw thing. I find I tend to preempt the page turn as there is a very small delay from pressing the button to anything happening at all. As much as I'd love it to be instant, it's not onerous. Page turning takes a little over a second maybe, and still does the whole invert+redraw thing.

I find I tend to preempt the page turn as there is a very small delay from pressing the button to anything happening at all.

As much as I’d love it to be instant, it’s not onerous.

]]> By: thetechnobear http://blog.soapyfrog.com/2009/10/24/reader-of-books/comment-page-1/#comment-561 thetechnobear Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:20:35 +0000 http://blog.soapyfrog.com/?p=445#comment-561 cool, ive had an iliad for sometime. used it alot initially, esp. for downloading news and then reading on the way to work - excellent. now i tend to just use for holiday reading (as i drive to work ;)). not sure if the ebook revolution will happen... i hope so :) whats the page turn/refresh rate like, was a bit slow on the iliad... but still usable. cool, ive had an iliad for sometime.
used it alot initially, esp. for downloading news and then reading on the way to work – excellent.
now i tend to just use for holiday reading (as i drive to work ;) ).
not sure if the ebook revolution will happen… i hope so :)

whats the page turn/refresh rate like, was a bit slow on the iliad… but still usable.

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