Comments on: iRiver Story eBook reader gets reviewed: can’t hold a candle to the Kindle

By: Jean

Jean — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 21:16:18 +0000

@ola mapola
I’m having trouble zooming in PDF. I’m pushing the zoom in and also tried arrow down + enter key but it doesn’t seem to make much difference. :/
Is there any other ereader out there that supports a larger font size than Iriver Story’s biggest font size (the third zoom in at epub files). Also is there any ereader out there where you can change the background color to black and the font to white?

By: newebookreaderreview

newebookreaderreview — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:09:14 +0000

I can’t understand the obsession with page turning speeds. I have a Sony PRS505, one of the first to hit the UK, and it is slow but no slower than turning pages by hand in a real book.

The features about this ebook reader that no one seems to have picked up is the voice recording and the diary. If Sony add those to their touch screen models you will have an all purpose office type device.

Paul

By: noora

noora — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:48:57 +0000

Have this but no way does it hold a 1000 books on its internal memory I have maybe a hundred and it tells me I need to store them in a sub directory as it is a fat32 file or to reformat the memory .

Another Problem I have is that when you delete the book . The name of the book still remains in the directory.

I think it is faster than The Sony Touch when you turn a page.

By: ola mapola

ola mapola — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:03:40 +0000

Most of mine ebooks are pdf, and if I can use reflow on them it really works nice, but there are really big problems.

Problems to consider:

1. The Zoom with the four steps, should be possible to customize in settings, so I would be able to have it on medium/sec.medium/high as my own customized standard.

2. Zoom in both versions does not work in landscape mode. Why?

3. The corner Zoom has to be easier in functionality, (sorry but to 80es software engineer loves his idea)

4. When I have a book on my SD card and read in it, the Story does not save my Reflow and Zoom settings, this means that i every time I read a book from my SD card have to inter the settings once more. (sorry but that’s really crappy)

5. Why does the Story not recognize any book in the book section when i only have my books on a SD card, should recognize them. (have my books on diffrent SD cards, categorized)
This means that each time re-inter another SD card it shall remember where i was in the book and what Reflow/zoom i had, otherwise it wont be real to call it an expansion possibility.

6. The Reflow display some pdf, very weird, exampled under:

Fred is fat and lives in a shel
ter while eating fish with his toes, and usually he sleeps with fresh herring under his pillow.
Unfortunate for the other resi
dents in the shelter, he is resisting any fish related arguments.

So it breaks the lines in some words, this is really not acceptable, please fix it.

7. Must agree with critics that it is cheap not to deliver a cover with the story.

8. There should be a possibility to set the story, to re-inter directly into the book you just read last time, so you dont have to g0 through the menu every time.

9. I can not bookmark pages in pdf’s.

10. Recent book, should be resent books, if you are reading several at the time.