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Technofear
Jun. 21st, 2013 06:16 pmToday's efforts to purchase an eBook reader have been frustrated by two problems:
(a) Neither J&B HiFi nor Dick Smith had bothered to charge or plug in their display models, making it impossible to compare them and thus pointless to display them in the first place.
(b) The staff apparently had no way of plugging them in to demonstrate them. See (a).
(b) Big W had the same problem, but the nice young man got one out of its box for me (a Laser EB370). It seemed fine, but in fact can't zoom in enough on a PDF to actually read it, and constantly crashes. Back it goes.
(c) You get what you pay for.
(a) Neither J&B HiFi nor Dick Smith had bothered to charge or plug in their display models, making it impossible to compare them and thus pointless to display them in the first place.
(b) The staff apparently had no way of plugging them in to demonstrate them. See (a).
(b) Big W had the same problem, but the nice young man got one out of its box for me (a Laser EB370). It seemed fine, but in fact can't zoom in enough on a PDF to actually read it, and constantly crashes. Back it goes.
(c) You get what you pay for.
