Comments on: iRiver Story Review

By: Gj

Gj — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:44:50 +0000

I just got myself an iRiver Story and I loved it, until the screen stopped working I found the bottom of the machine was opened, maybe due to a bump, twisted, or something. But It was always in its protective casing and next to my laptop, which means I treated it carefully.
I live and work in Africa, its going to be a nightmare and expensive to get this fixed. I loved it, but why do these guys make it so easy to break???
Never buy cheap I guess…

By: Boris

Boris — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 05:14:47 +0000

It connects to my Windows 7/64 PC fine. I drag and drop stuff all the time.
There are no page markers, which is a pain, and like most ereaders whilst reading epub format is a real pleasure, scanned pdfs are rendered tiny and a real pain.
As far as 6 inch ereaders go I have no regrets about buying it 2nd hand but I have now discovered a need for a unit which can read scanned pdfs at A4 and not shrink them.

By: Don

Don — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 07:04:36 +0000

It’s not true to say you can purchase the Kindle only from Amazon: I bought mine from PC World. My only gripe is that the spoken word option is pathetic; on the occasions that I tried to use it, the readers sounded like automatons with no feeling for what they were reading at all. Also, I would prefer an English reader when reading books by Brit authors.

By: David Boag

David Boag — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 06:02:09 +0000

You can download kindle for pc, free from Amazon, I use it on ny netbook, has nice look, just like a kindle screen

By: Gill

Gill — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:18:03 +0000

Found this extremely difficult to use. Couldnt open any of the books although you could open on the computer when the device was attached. Brought in friend who is expert and he agreed couldnt see what I was doing wrong. Have set up other ereaders before but this is going back to Costco…

By: paul

paul — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 13:34:38 +0000

i river cover story is not compatible with windows7 64 bit operating system, found out after many wasted hours by phoning waterstones help line. however i was not told of this problem at the point of sale, you are ok if you have windows7 32 bit operating system.

By: paul

paul — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 12:58:23 +0000

I was given an i river cover story e reader for christmas, i could not get it to link with my pc. on contacting waterstones i was informed it is not compatable with windows 7 64 bit operating system.

By: John

John — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 15:19:36 +0000

I have had problems in the past marrying some electronic devices to an iMac computer. Had anyone got this eReader working on an apple machine

By: Amethyst

Amethyst — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:52:11 +0000

Looks pretty neat, I don’t know anyone that has this but would love to check it out.

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:48:38 +0000

Was given a iRiver Cover Story as a birthday present recently and all I can say thus far is that how did I manage without it before.

By: Graham

Graham — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:44:59 +0000

Who wrote this ullage? When you say you were “weary” when you first heard the iRiver story, instead I guess you meant you were wary, unless of course you were tired from having had to write so much drivel!!

By: Tony Townsend

Tony Townsend — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 02:39:37 +0000

Had this reader for a short time and the screen developed a fault, where only half the screen would show writing. I sent it to Singapore’s McCoy Pte Ltd for repair as it was still under warranty and they replied a week later saying that the vendor said it was a customer developed fault and I would have to pay $200 and wait for 8 weeks for repairs or buy a new one from them for $300.
What a disappointment!! To my knowledge there is no way that I could have damaged the screen.
I replied to McCoy saying that I would not throw good money after bad.
Maybe, you can learn from my experience with iRiver Story. If it goes faulty, the chances are they will say it is a customer related fault, even though you registered the unit.

By: Does it zoom or reflow PDFs?

Does it zoom or reflow PDFs? — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:06:17 +0000

Hi,

I’d like to know if this reader can zoom PDF documents or enlarge the font size and reflow the text. I’m very interesting on it, but don’t want to read a whole page of my PDFs in such a little screen.

Thanks

By: Glen Cross

Glen Cross — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 06:48:19 +0000

The thing I'm looking for in an e-reader is that I can read newspapers, blogs and things like that on it (and I don't think I'm alone in that). All these readers you seem to be reviewing seem much smaller than I'd need for reading these kind of publications or big PDFs etc. If you wrote an article on bigger screen readers I'd be interested in what you recommend.

By: Mario Ramos

Mario Ramos — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 01:36:40 +0000

hi!

I was just wandering how good is the PDF support on the Iriver Story? I am thinking about buying it because of all my school books which are heavy 3D imaging books which are normally 300-500 pages big and every book comes with a CD rom which has a PDF version of the book… So I want to safe space and time by just buying a good looking ebook reader, good enough to handle PDFs which are heavy on the images…

Thanks a lot and Ill keep reading!