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I highly recommend completely powering the device off by holding down the power button for a while (no good visual indication that you've succeeded, but when you have, it'll animate four small dots on the screen while it boots) when loading pdfs on the micro SD.
Instead, you have to wait for it to notice that you put things on SD card, which involves either a looong wait for it to scan them (leaving me wondering if it's processing of them is slower than it would take me to actually raed them) or else rebooting the device. There's a library tab that doesn't show you items you have on the SD card. So, no keeping a reference chart up, and no zooming on it to the point where something printed even page size is legible. Since the DPI is less than that of paper, you cannot view any diagram nearly as well as on a printed copy. By some coincidence, the max zoom level is 3x. DPI is okay-ish, but the screen is about a third the size of a 8.5x11 page. It goes to a screensaver that shows the logo, Fnac, the company behind the device. I want to be able to leave a chart up, or a cheatsheet, or other reference. Reading a pdf: One of the points of e-ink is that it doesn't take battery power to keep an image up, and I selected this one in part because it doesn't show ads when it thinks it is idle.
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I wasted about eight hours trying to get the device into a state where it could pull up a pdf before I succeeded, then another day before I figured out that it just can't cope with much. Later, I tried to load too many pdfs at once, and it begged for "a minute" and wedged for an evening and overnight before I pushed in the tiny reset button and removed the micro SD card.
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After it became clear that the software got overwhelmed with some left over photos on the flash card and wasn't capable of dealing with anything being removed, I reflashed the firmware and went through the setup and update process again, again with WiFi hiccups. I tried deleting the Kobo data directory on the flash hard hoping for a fresh start but no luck. This was the first time I had to take a mechanical pencil and shove it into the tiny hole in the water-resistant access port in order to unwedge it. The home view UI came up, and it was flashing as it updated, de-incrementing the number of items in the library one by one, about five times, until it wedged hard. I decided to delete some things to see if that would make it more responsive. It took about eight hours to make sense of what was on the card. I went and did other things, checking on it periodically (new toy). This device begged for a minute and then wedged, for hours. Between that and WiFi being flaky, I'm already annoyed at this point.įirst go at using it: I copied about 20 pdfs to a micro SD card and put it in the slot. I was able to create an account on the manufacturer's site, but I'd really rather have not given anyone else my email address in order to have a pocket e-ink pdf reader. It's nice that it has a long list of various booksellers it supports, all of them the lesser known ones, but I'm specifically avoiding the abusive giants, so this is good. There's no option to skip associating with an online account. It promised this would take less than a minute, but it took several.
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This repeated about ten times before it was able to successfully download its firmware updates. Clicking through to try again, it presented a list of access points - with none on it, not even the neighbors.
I picked the home WiFi AP off of the top of the list of ten or so visible access points, then it started strobing its screen spastically for a mi nute before coming back with an error. One of the first steps is picking a WiFi access point (or else associating with software installed on a computer, but of course mine isn't supported). I'm taking class, so I have reference materials in various subject matters.
When things are published as physical books, I generally buy them as such, so my use-case is everything else published electronically as pdf.
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Use-case: free pdf ebooks downloaded on line, like _50 Years of Naval Computing_, processor datasheets, _Atari, The Book_ (the guide to servicing electronic video arcade machines), engine service manuals, nautical charts, poster format diagrams, etc. Poor choice for pdfs, and badly written software
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