Ectaco Jetbook

[springwoof.livejournal.com]

Hi all! I was looking at e-readers and liked the specs on the Ectaco Jetbook. Mainly, I liked that it supports a whole bunch of different filetypes (mobi, epub, txt, html, rtf, etc.) and has an SD card slot for expanding the memory--and adding new reading material easily.

Does anyone out there have a Jetbook? What did you think of it? Did you like it? How does it do with fanfic? How do you load up your fanfic on the reader--can you just save the file as html and then load & read it on the device?

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[dj-aida.livejournal.com]

I don't have any experience with it personally, but when I was thinking of getting an e-reader, it was a choice between Jetbook and Astak EZRead. I went with Astak in the end, but I remember people praising Jetbook on the MobileRead forums in the "What to buy" thread. Ectaco has its own subforum on MR (http://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=205), so you can check what the users say.

[springwoof.livejournal.com]

thanks for the link!
I ended up getting the Jetbook, and while it's not as fancy as my hubby's Kindle, it handles several different file formats (basically, anything *except* Kindle files), including my Barnes & Noble e-books, and it displays pdf files far better than the Kindle. Plus, it was *very cheap*; I got it for $50 on NewEgg...