eSlick Digital Book Reader

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Product Details

• ASIN: B002ABT1PC
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #168,985 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 18, 2009

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent pdf reader, July 12, 2009

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Andreas Papandreou - See all my reviews
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This review is from: eSlick Digital Book Reader (Electronics)

I have been using this ereader for a couple of months and I am very impressed with it. It is particularly good at reading any pdf file without requiring any transformation. If the pdf page does not fit nicely to the device's screen (vertically or horizontally) then the reflow function realigns the pdf so that it fits the screen with any size font. Pages turn quite fast. The customer support is very good and the software is updated quite regularly in response to user's requests. When I compare it to the kindle or sony in terms of handling pdf files it wins hands down (I have not tried other formats). Given it's price I consider it a good investment.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Mixed Results, September 23, 2009

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C. Allen (CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: eSlick Digital Book Reader (Electronics)

If you're looking for a cheap alternative to the Kindle and don't want a lot of your machine besides readability and portability, this is a fairly good way to go.
The digital ink makes reading the screen almost like reading a printed book and it's small and slim, so you can stick it anywhere. The menus are very simple and intuitive.
However, the buttons on the side an ANNOYINGLY place and the center button tends to be stiff. The most recent firmware update made it less finicky, though, so that's an improvement.
You can load your books and such with the cord they send you, but it's very, very slow and getting or using an SD slot is much simpler and faster. The USB cord can charge your unit from the computer, or, alternately, with this neat little wall jack it comes with.
It also plays mp3s if you want to upload them. I've never bothered, so I don't know how it sounds.

Customer service, however, is rather mediocre. The response time is fairly fast, but the service is rather curt--as if they don't want to be bothered. The forum isn't that great of a help, either. I had a lot of problems with mine when I first bought it, and the whole lot of them were kind of unhelpful.

However, when the thing is behaving, it's a great reader.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Simple and Easy, April 22, 2010

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Ben M. Morrell "64bprophet" (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: eSlick Digital Book Reader (Electronics)

This device is not a Kindle. I would say that the best use of this device is as a technical document reader. It is also on the cheaper end of things, and you can import your own PDFs into it, so it makes a great lightweight work PDF reader. If you are on the go at all this is a pretty simple way to keep up with documents you might need to read without a computer. Yes there is no editing, or many other features like some eBooks, but the value here is in the ability for you to make your own PDFs from just about anything and stick them on the device. (Without having to pay 10 cents a document) It's not a rival to the Kindle, but as a PDF reading tool it works wonders.