I am still trying to make sense of my iLiad and Mobipocket’s disappearing act isn’t helping. I hope everyone took my advice the other day and did a backup of your e-book files. The server was supposed to be back up by today, but it’s not looking too good. Here’s a thought: What if they don’t come back? It’s been over a week and still no fix? Better still what if when they do come back it’s different? Could it be that the Amazon Kindle (prototype pictured here) is ready for prime time? And if so, maybe the Mobipocket we know will somehow be changed to only work with the new device. It is a possibility and makes some sense of why they have been so closed mouth on the details about what happened to the DRM server. Well, I am done speculating…back to the iLiad.
I just got a new reader, the iLiad from iRex Technology. So now not only am I as broke as a joke, I am overwhelmed by the e-book reader. I honestly don’t know what to do. I tried playing with the device last night after it was charged and got frustrated in a matter of minutes. The only instructions that came with my iLiad is a quick start guide that is little more than a picture guide to charging and turning on the device. I tried to connect the reader to my home WiFi network, but I can’t tell if it is connected. This thing costs too much money not to work right out of the box. In all my tech adventures I have never been so intimidated. Talk about the complexities and problems with the N770 and N800 all you want, but I was up and running mine in a matter of minutes. Also Mobipocket is still down so this has only made my first impression of the iLiad worse. So, earlier this morning, I went to the Mobileread forum to see what I need to do. I am still lost and my head hurts. After this post, I’ll send out a SOS post and see what happens. Why can’t something that is meant to be so simple, like read a book, work as soon as I take it out of the box?
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