Comments on: The Cool-Er e-reader: Feedback sought from owners http://www.teleread.org/2009/08/21/the-cool-er-e-reader-feedback-sought-from-owners/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:09:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Portnull http://www.teleread.org/2009/08/21/the-cool-er-e-reader-feedback-sought-from-owners/comment-page-1/#comment-1130554 Portnull Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:43:08 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/08/21/the-cool-er-e-reader-feedback-sought-from-owners/#comment-1130554 I'm not that impressed by these readers, actually. Especially compared to the 505, which is a tough device. The Cool-Er is more fragile, and of the two we bought one already broke with the screen turning black or letters messed up. The buttons are hard to operate and do not feel responsive. Interaction, such as jumping to a page or zooming, is done using a slow, rather badly organised fold out menu. It beats the 505 in uploading books to the device, disconnecting the device then going back to reading - this works a million times faster, so the device is more suitable for ePub testing (the purpose we bought them for) than the 505. But overall, I'm unimpressed. I’m not that impressed by these readers, actually. Especially compared to the 505, which is a tough device. The Cool-Er is more fragile, and of the two we bought one already broke with the screen turning black or letters messed up. The buttons are hard to operate and do not feel responsive. Interaction, such as jumping to a page or zooming, is done using a slow, rather badly organised fold out menu.

It beats the 505 in uploading books to the device, disconnecting the device then going back to reading – this works a million times faster, so the device is more suitable for ePub testing (the purpose we bought them for) than the 505. But overall, I’m unimpressed.

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