POST 1:

23 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

 too much money for too little, October 20, 2007

I want to like the iRex, but I cant escape the feeling that you should get better software, better performance, and better documentation for a $700 product. 
It is great that the iRex is an open source platform. but that shouldn't take resonsibility off the shoulders of iRex team to create useful core applications

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POST 2:

These guys are dumb, really dumb. Why on the earth somebody should buy their device that has less features than kindle and costs double? These guys are totally ignoring student population who is tired of paying for expensive books and many rather would prefer to buy e-book. Piracy will be an issue but still, even now, students make photocopies of the books or share the books so why crib about it? 
I just hope that some Taiwanese manufacturer comes out with such a book that costs no more than USD 100 or max 200 and does exactly what is needed i.e. reading pdfs or chms or djvus and students can highlight in the files or save notes on them. We don't need any video player or mp3 player or Wi-Fi etc. (Why not use your phone for all these?) Just a basic e-book reader. Do make fancy models for those who have deep pockets and want those useless things...