Low Price iRex iLiad Book Edition

The ILIAD Reader is of a very poor quality indeed. This is a very, very expensive piece of kit that as an electronic reader fails on every level:

1) It is TERRIBLY SLOW: it takes for ever to get started, for ever more to find the book you need, and like a tortoise when it comes to turning pages!

2) It is big and heavy: most unconfortable to hold in your hand,bulky to carry with you around.

3) It is very temperamental: I had problems with it from the begining as it would not be recognised by my computer. Also, when you are out there and in the middle of your reading experience...it all of a sudden friezes for no reason!

4) It is supposed to work with mobipocket: forget it, if what you want to use it for is books with tables and graphics (like medical books, for example), as these apppear SO SMALL that you will not be able to read them!

5) It is supposed to work with Adobe: again out of luck here, as very often the writting on the adobe documents is quite packed and small. You then need to blow it up... sounds simple?..well, IT IS NOT. You will be forever struggling with the stupid system the Iliad reader uses for this, that blows up the page you are viewing...leaving on sight only one section of it at a time. The problem is that a lot of the time you end up with the wrong bit of page! And on and on you struggle to get that right, which TAKES FOR EVER (very slow this machine...remember?) AND consumes all the battery.

6) And last, but not least, THE CUSTOMER SERVICE IS AWFUL: you will be confronted with a totaly inpersonal system whereby your questions go into anebulous cibernetic territory from which you get thrown back a reply that comes about one week later, signed by an anonymous assistant (you will NOT deal with a person), that will give you a very general reply and will not accept any responsability. And the more inpatient you get, the thicker the wall that isolates you from 'them', the more delayed the answers, the more unsuported you feel (YOU ARE).

And all of this at an outrageously expensive price! When I bought it I naively assumed the high price would be buying me high quality!!!

At least you won't be able to say that nobody warned you...
Get more detail about iRex iLiad Book Edition.