I am trying to find en ebook reader or similar that can turn the pages through voice activation. through a fall my mohter is rendered paralysed but prefectly able to read but can’t turn the pages.

Any ideas?

Thanks Sue

The list of features is very bad. It’s pretty slow. I’m disappointed.

less than 2 weeks into a 4 month trip to South America my wife’s unit started having problems – freezing up, getting caught in continuous loops while starting up, having the screen suddenly become garbled. A number of different fixes worked at different times but nothing actually solved the problems. Mine has also had some of the same problems but never as bad.

Eventually we were told to send hers back in mid-October (from Bolivia, paid by us, eventually reimbursed in Jan/10). Despite the fact we tracked it and knew they had received it before the end of October we never heard back until I hounded them in mid-November and finally got a response. I was told it was fixed but they were just waiting on a new software upgrade and would send it out next week. That turned out to be a blatant lie. Three weeks later I hadn’t heard anything and tried contacting them again – no response, no response. Finally, in mid-December, I got fed up and sent an angry email to everyone in the organization I could find contact info for. That apparently got their attention as I received several replies and even a phone call. Their PR rep was very helpful and got a new unit sent out immediately (which was good because apparently they could no longer locate our original one). Of course, although she also promised to send us free credit in the Cooler Bookstore we never did receive this.

Eventually we were told to send hers back in mid-October (from Bolivia, paid by us, eventually reimbursed in Jan/10). Despite the fact we tracked it and knew they had received it before the end of October we never heard back until I hounded them in mid-November and finally got a response. I was told it was fixed but they were just waiting on a new software upgrade and would send it out next week. That turned out to be a blatant lie. Three weeks later I hadn’t heard anything and tried contacting them again – no response, no response. Finally, in mid-December, I got fed up and sent an angry email to everyone in the organization I could find contact info for. That apparently got their attention as I received several replies and even a phone call. Their PR rep was very helpful and got a new unit sent out immediately (which was good because apparently they could no longer locate our original one). Of course, although she also promised to send us free credit in the Cooler Bookstore we never did receive this.

cool-er stop working, the screen is frozen, and the device did not show any effect to the buttons click.
I have try to connect my cool-er to my computer, but the computer cannot detect the device, and even after the battery is fully charged, the screen is still frozen.
I also have try to reset my cool-er, but it did not work. The screen only show greyscale bars, and did not show the content of the files.

Please help tell me what to do. I think there is no service station for cool-er ereader in my country.

Thanks

Junk product and crap support. Don’t touch it.

Comparing a 10-hour battery life to a 2-week recharge cycle is not quite the same thing. If I read every night for 20-30 minutes before I go to bed (reasonable reading for someone who has loads of other things to do) and I use my iPad for nothing else, then its charge too will last me for close to a couple of weeks.

Of course, the point of the iPad is that you will end up doing lots more than just reading books on it, so your recharge cycle will probably be daily, which is not such a big deal.

But its ability to handle multiple needs is exactly what makes it more attractive than a dedicated eBook reader. One less whizmo to lug around.

BTW, I currently read on both my laptop and my iPhone and there’s no eyestrain if you turn down the brightness and/or use a white text on black display layout (which most eReader software allows you to do).

We purchased 2 Coolers in July 09 when they first came on the market and unfortunately would not recommend them to anyone. While one has generally worked ok, less than 2 weeks into a 4 month trip to South America my wife’s unit started having problems – freezing up, getting caught in continuous loops while starting up, having the screen suddenly become garbled. A number of different fixes worked at different times but nothing actually solved the problems. Mine has also had some of the same problems but never as bad.

Eventually we were told to send hers back in mid-October (from Bolivia, paid by us, eventually reimbursed in Jan/10). Despite the fact we tracked it and knew they had received it before the end of October we never heard back until I hounded them in mid-November and finally got a response. I was told it was fixed but they were just waiting on a new software upgrade and would send it out next week. That turned out to be a blatant lie. Three weeks later I hadn’t heard anything and tried contacting them again – no response, no response. Finally, in mid-December, I got fed up and sent an angry email to everyone in the organization I could find contact info for. That apparently got their attention as I received several replies and even a phone call. Their PR rep was very helpful and got a new unit sent out immediately (which was good because apparently they could no longer locate our original one). Of course, although she also promised to send us free credit in the Cooler Bookstore we never did receive this.

Now, while the new unit doesn’t seem to suffer from the original problems, the battery appears to be defective (it lasts about 10% as long as our other one – not even a full day). I once again contacted Cooler Support, even offering to purchase a new battery, and after a third try was told:

The COOL-ERs battery is easily removable. If you do find a replacment
battery at a local battery retailer please feel free to try one out. I
currently do not have a replacement battery to offer.

Best regards,
Julie

I thought it was very generous of them to “allow” us to try to find a new battery at our own cost since they apparently don’t bother keeping replacement parts around. Unbelievable.
All in all, we’ve had nothing but headaches with Cooler and I now understand why they were cheaper than the rest. Even when they are technically working they still occasional get stuck cycling and overall they just seem poorly made. So, while I don’t have any personal experience with other models, I would recommend trying anything else since I can’t see how the quality or service could really be any worse.

Thank you for being there for me. Kindest regards – Janice Laurie

It is so amazing, I read every day on this.

Thanks to sony for introducing such a nice product…

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

At the same time Amazon Uk still show in is home page the Kindle for sale….link that take you in Amazon.com…. to bad….there should not be differences in terms of availbility for such big internet-shops

Sorry, but when I can log onto Amazon.co.uk and buy it there, and purchase an extended warranty that works in the UK, only then will I accept that this device is officially available to UK residents.

I have mine on Kindle and recently uploaded a video on how to prepare one’s manuscript for Amazon’s Digital Text Platform at http://www.youtube.com/dlantz6#p/a/u/0/tuaP-5Bq8QM

I’d be interested in learning more about publishing on these other readers.

Thanks!

David