iRiver Story eBook Reader
Product Description
Winner of 2 iF Design Awards DEAL OF THE DAY! iRiver Story 2GB E-Book Reader only £195 with FREE FedEx Delivery! Enter the code STORY at the Checkout. What’s the Story? iRiver arrive on the new eBook scene with a polished piece of handheld perfection! The eBook market is one we fully expect to explode in 2010 – there are a variety of products now out there and the high street is catching on. What’s key about the future of the eBook is the convergence with other portable devices – so in future you’ll have a device to listen to music read books and even work on documents. That future just arrived with iRiver Story! The Story uses a revolutionary E-Ink display which takes no power to display a page – it only consumes energy when you change page. Hence you can’t measure battery life in hours you use page turns (over 7000 page turns on one charge) In terms of compatibility it’s got all the bases covered. EPUB PDF & TXT cover the main formats for commercial ebooks while the Story also displays office files like DOC PPT & XLS. For comics & graphic novels JPEG BMP and GIF image types are supported (8 shade greyscale) In stark contrast to most eBooks on the market the Story has a full Qwerty Keyboard allowing you to modify documents and take notes use the onboard Diary and scheduler. It’s also audio enabled – with a headphone output and built in speaker you’ll use it for audiobooks or to play music – a key feature being it’s ability to maintain playback while you read a book. You’ll also use the integrated voice recorder to take notes or record interviews & lectures. You’ll have plenty of storage too. It has a class-leading 2GB of onboard flash memory enough for around 1500 eBooks – and that’s without using the onboard SD card slot to add as much memory as you require. Just think about the weight of 1500 books let alone the paper saved by carrying them all in one little electronic device. Enough of the t
- Main features includes ; eBook reader, Office Viewer, MP3 Player, Voice recorder, Personal organizer
- Stylish Slim design -6.0″ e-Ink Display
- 2GB internal memory + SD memory card slot
- QWERTY Keyboard
- Long battery life
Within 15 mins of taking it out of the box I was reading my first E book on it. Think Like a lot of people I was a bit nervous of the price but I did promise myself one the only thing was, which one to buy. After reading the reviews on Amazon I settled for the IRiver book reader. One thing I liked was long battery life and no messy software its easy just put your e books on an SD card it will read your folders, and navigation is simple, (it will take up to 32gig) according to the instructions and away you go. Menu’s are are fairly simple and I can and will recommend it to my friends. only problem I have now is keeping my daughter off it. Might have to buy her one .
Ernie…
Rating: 5 / 5
iRiver eBook Reader – Electronic Book Reader
I bought the iRiver Story e reader for myself and have been using it for a few days only. I like the style and feel of the reader. It has the features I expected. It did not come with an SD card. The manual recommends a Sandisk or Transcend card. There is no mains charger but the reader charges automatically if you connect it to a computer with the usb lead. Contrary to another review I read, my iRiver Story displays Adobe / pdf files perfectly and I have read a couple of ebooks on it already. The screen is approx 9 x 12 cm so text on A4 documents is going to appear smaller and good reading eyesight is necessary. A portrait / landscape button enables you to rotate the document 90 degrees enlarging the image so you can read half a page at a time. There is a zoom button but it only has 4 steps. A slider would be better to fit the image to the screen. E readers are great for reading books when the computer is not switched on. I use it at meal times and while in bed. The iRiver also makes a great mp3 music player which I tested with a pair of Pioneer headphones. There are volume buttons on the keyboard.
Rating: 4 / 5
This eReader is easy to use and feels nice to hold. It isn’t backlit so is more like a book to read and doesn’t give eye strain. I’ve been able to upload ebooks, my word docs, music and photos onto it.
As someone who writes I was hoping it would annotate actually on the document but it doesn’t. However the memo section means you can at least write notes about a section of your own work that you might want to review on the computer later. The memo doesn’t upload onto the computer though.
I’ve also discovered you’re better saving a word doc in 22pt font if you want to have any chance of reading it (the 12 pt font I usually use is tiny lol).
Overall it does what I expected and I’m able to review my work whilst out and about. The case comes seperately unfortuately.
Rating: 4 / 5
Received 1 of these as a birthday present, I was sceptical at first but once I got used to the completely different sensation of reading from its screen I love it, very easy to use and download the books, if only the price of the books was cheaper.
Rating: 5 / 5
picked up 1 of these in Korea recently on a business trip delighted to be able to get them in the UK as an absolute joy to use and needed 3 more for family members who love mine so much they won’t give it back
Rating: 5 / 5