Is the iRex iLiad worth it?
I own an eBookwise 1150, and I’ve seen an iLiad in action, and I was also pretty unimpressed. It took seemingly forever to “boot up” and the page refreshes were pretty slow. Personally I’m going to wait a while before jumping on the eInk bandwagon if that’s the way they perform. The owner of the iLiad said that the screen refresh didn’t bother him, he just got used to flipping pages before he was done reading or something. As a comparison, the Ebookwise device powers on nearly instantly as compared to probably 15-25 seconds for the iLiad. Screen refreshes are nearly instant, as compared to maybe a half second on the iLiad. It seems like a bit of a step back, even though the display does look pretty nice. I hope they can resolve the issues with it, because on paper it looks awesome. Oh – I just remembered, I saw a video of an iLiad on youtube a while back. You might want to seek it out. (I would, but youtube is verboten here.
