Does this mean you can use the Hanlin as an image viewer? eg shoot some photos with your digital camera, put the sd card into the hanlin, and it becomes something like a digital photo frame. Of course it is not colour. Most of the extra formats listed are graphics files.

I don't have any experience though. I have an old Dell Axim. 4" screen. Full colour. 600MHz CPU, wifi, bluetooth, webbrowser, games, etc. Price was about RM1300. It's a PDA instead of a book reader, though there are lots of software you can add, including book reading software. I haven't used it much for reading though. Tried it for a while when new. The screen is a bit small, but my main problem was I didn't go around looking for ebooks to read. This was many years ago, and there weren't that many websites with ebooks then. Not as many as today. Another small problem is the backlit screen isn't too comfortable to read for very long periods. That sounds worse than it really is. It's just less comfortable than a regular paper book.

The new e-ink screens might be better, but I haven't seen any myself up close. These new readers have slightly bigger screens, but are not colour, and the CPU isn't much faster. I'm waiting for the prices to drop much below RM1k.

BTW: my PDA is now mostly an MP3 player. The Hanlin can play MP3 too, as well as text-to-speech. Come to think of it, the iriver can view images and play mp3 as well.

http://www.pocket-lint.com/review/4528/iri...k-reader-review