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This is an interesting device in a category where I'm interested in seeing devices bloom. However, the phrase

ships with an MP3 player

worries me. The gratuitous MP3 player is the designer's badge of failure. I never, ever use it -- I have iPods and iPhones for that! -- and it just clutters up the interface and the documentation and dilutes the designers' focus on the task at hand. (Note, for example, that this thing is going to ship without Linux or Mac support for creating PDFs. What's up with that? Perhaps Foxit could have cut the MP3 feature and used its budget to hire a Unix person?)



All ebook readers have mp3 players including the kindle.


Hm, I had forgotten that. I guess it's just a matter of time before every pair of socks ships with an MP3 player.




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