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iRex iLiad eReader 2nd Edtion ER0141-002-000 | 
| Brand: iLiad 2nd Edition
Category: CE
This item is no longer available
Rating:  4 reviews
MPN: ER0141-002-000
Model: ER0141-002-000
EAN: 8717703230017
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| Features:
| • | Read digital text from the iLiad. Print your favorite pdfs to the document folder for viewing while you're on the go. | | • | The iLiad has a Mobipocket viewer. Mobipocket.com is an Amazon Company. There are 50K + ebooks for sale. Download eBooks to your iLiad and read Best Sellers. Free eBooks from www.manybooks.net in iLiad optimized pdfs. | | • | The iLiad connects to a mac or PC via USB. Transfer ebooks, pdfs, html, and other file formats to the iLiad for reading. HTML hyperlinks and linked pdfs work using the iLiad's stylus | | • | Write on the iLiad. The iLiad stores personal notes in a Vision Objects file format. Files transfered to a PC can be trasnslated to .txt with MyScript Notes optional software. | | • | 8.1" ePaper display is daylight readable, almost twice the size and resolution of the Kindle and Sony Reader. |
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Product Description
The iLiad is a personal electronic device that stores digital content for readers on the go. It is lightweight, daylight readable, and convenient for the beach, the train, the living room or the office. Read and write on the iLiad. Stores thousands of books with optional memory. The iLiad includes a 12 month Manufacturers warranty; the manufacturer pays shipping both ways.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Love the iLiad from iRex August 31, 2008
L. Young (Massachusetts)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
The iRex iLiad is a fantastic reader. I bought it over the Kindle and other readers for three reasons. It has a larger screen, can create folders and can take notes with a stylus. Yes, there is more functionality available if you have Linux experience but you don't need that experience to achieve the same amount of capability as the other readers with maybe one exception. Kindle allows browsing out of the box. The iLiad requires installation of the Developers package first. Of course Kindle also has the Sprint wireless connection.
Regarding a criticism from a previous post about the CF card. You connect the reader to your PC and the card will appear as a drive. You do have to go into the setup to tell the iLiad that the card will be the drive rather than memory. You also can identify which type of items are kept on the card. The overall structure is broken out by Newspaper, Books, Documents and Notes. Think of this breakout as folders off the root directory. In these locations you can create other folders.
With everything said the iLiad may not be for the faint of heart but this might also be said of the other readers. I think it may take one or two more upgrades before readers are really ready for primetime. Buy the Kindle if the items I first mentioned are not of a concern to you.
This reader can read Mobipocket, HTML, TXT and PDF files. It cannot read epub or digitally signed PDF files. It did take me time to figure out how to create a table of contents in the PDF files I created with links to the pages. I bought Nitro PDF to convert MS Word to PDF.
In summary the screen display is crisp and perfect. It truly does look like print. It takes a bit of time to boot up and like all readers there is a slight delay with page turning but not all that bad.
When I first bought a PC or Palm when they first became available it felt like the technology arrived at the right time. This reader feels like it is from the future. Holding it and using it transports you to the future. You do come back to earth as issues pop up but I think I will always be amazed at this gadget.
Amazon - Wake up and let non Kindle users purchase electronic books! You own MobiPocket so there really is no excuse.
 Great Ebook Reader May 11, 2008
Mario Cisneros (Manhattan)
6 out of 14 found this review helpful
This is an excellent ebook reader. I use it all the time to read architectural documents and sketch drawings.
lots of potential, short on realization December 21, 2007
vivere (Detroit Metro, MI USA)
13 out of 16 found this review helpful
This device has a lot of capabilities, but you have to write your own software to be able to take advantage of them. After reading reviews of the Kindle and the Sony reader, I bought an iliad, because I want to carry around and read professional documents, such as patents, in PDF format, without too much hassle. As it has been remarked in an earlier review, the manual and online/e-mail help is next to useless.
I do not plan to write my own software, but I made a gamble that sooner or later authorized software will become available.
For example, the iliad has the capability to allow you to buy or access content via WIFI, but this capability is not currently realized, except for direct download of upgrades from the company, irex.
For recreational use, I plan to buy the Kindle when more Amazon books become available in the Kindle format.
 One Very Expensive Headache August 15, 2007
Stephen G. Perrella (Freehold, NJ)
29 out of 36 found this review helpful
At about $600, this item is massively expensive. But I figured, the features and quality will be worth what I've paid. The iLiad has been nothing but trouble since I got it. The software is not compatible with Vista. When you get on the Mobipocket FAQ site to try to manually move items, the other dissatisfied consumers will help you before one of the techs finally gets around to responding in English that is so badly broken as to be incomprehensible. I finally just gave up and loaded the thing onto an XP and downloaded some books. I went to expand the memory and got a Compact Flash card. There is literally NO reference in the User's Manual as to how you should go about installing, transferring or accessing your books on the card. The entry literally just tells you "CF Card Slot. This is a slot for a CF card." Thanks, that was helpful. I would implore all of you: buy the Sony product for 1/3 the price and when you go to their affiliated ebook site, you'll pay about 1/3 of what you will pay for the same titles on Mobipocket. (Seriously, most Mobipocket books cost about what a hardcopy of the book will run you at a bookstore.) Immensely dissatisfied.
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