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iRiver Story with Wi-Fi review

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Verdict

A decent eBook reader but, with the Amazon Kindle on its way, the Story struggles to make a compelling case

Review Date: 12 Aug 2010

Reviewed By: Jonathan Bray

Price when reviewed: £169 (£199 inc VAT)

Overall Rating
3 stars out of 6

Features & Design
4 stars out of 6

Value for Money
2 stars out of 6

Performance
3 stars out of 6

Details
Part Code Story with Wi-Fi
Review Date 12 Aug 2010
Price ex VAT £169
Price inc VAT £199
Overall rating 3 stars out of 6
Performance 3 stars out of 6
Features & Design 4 stars out of 6
Value for Money 2 stars out of 6
Screen
Screen size 6.0in
Resolution 600 x 800
Colour screen no
Touchscreen no
Battery
Battery Life 9,000 page turns
Integrated memory 2.0GB
Memory-card type SD
Dimensions
Dimensions 127 x 9 x 203mm (WDH)
Weight 291g
File format support
Plain text yes
HTML no
RTF no
PDF yes
EPUB yes
BBeB no
AZW no
Microsoft Word yes
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User comments

Kindle comments

Speaking as a prospective new Kindle owner, and I won't get mine until early September due to huge demand, there are some errors in the last paragraph of your article.
Surely the first sentence of the last paragraph should refer to the iRiver reader and not the Kindle, as you then go on to say you can't reccomend it. Then in the next sentence basically saying that as the Kindle is so much cheaper it wins out. Oh I wish it was £100 cheaper for the wi-fi only version, but it costs £109 incl' VAT not £100.

I decided on the Kindle as opposed to the Sony PRS-300 (now reduced to just £99.99 at Waterstones), even though it was £9 more, due to it's better overall rep on many web based reviews, and it's inclusive features, such as wi-fi, better memory, and better greyscales. On top of that is the overall better file format acceptance, whether by using their own e-mail based conversion service, or natively.
You might also like to take a look at the 'Calibre' ebook library management software, which serves as a competent file format converter as well.

By mduncan on 12 Aug 2010

Duplicate items

PLEASE can you prevent duplicate posts being shown, or at least take them down

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By iamalwayzonline4u on 12 Aug 2010

oh dear

It would appear that duplicate posts are a minor problem compared with what these idiots are putting up.
Back to the review, well the first comment is a bit picky but the review is written in the "I see what you wrote but I know what you mean" style. :-(

JH

By JohnHo1 on 13 Aug 2010

mduncan £9 is loose change, that barely buys 2 bears in some places. DON'T WINGE

THE SONY HAS A QUICKER CPU IT SHOULD COST MORE

By invalidscreenname on 14 Aug 2010

mduncan £9 is loose change, that barely buys 2 bears in some places. DON'T WINGE

THE SONY HAS A QUICKER CPU IT SHOULD COST MORE

By invalidscreenname on 14 Aug 2010

mduncan £9 is loose change, that barely buys 2 bears in some places. DON'T WINGE

THE SONY HAS A QUICKER CPU IT SHOULD COST MORE

By invalidscreenname on 14 Aug 2010

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