Pocket-lint have published their review of the iRex DR800S ebook reader. 'While it's not locked into any online buying of books (unlike the US version, which hooks-up to the Barnes & Noble store using 3G - something that should come to these shores later in 2010), the DR800S doesn't have complete file compatibility. EPUB and PDB ebooks (Barnes & Noble's format), TXT, PDF, JPEG, TIFF, GIF, BMP files (pictures look particularly good on this 16-shade greyscale E-Ink screen) are all dealt with, though HTML web pages, RTF files and Microsoft Office documents are not. iRex's take on Microsoft compatibility is that business users who are likely to buy the DR800S at this price will be savvy enough to save any Word files they want to read as a PDFs directly to the DR800S.'
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