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CNET have published a review of the Iriver Story HD e-reader. 'From a design standpoint, the 7.3-ounce Story HD is attractive, fairly lightweight, and we liked the two sample covers that Iriver sent us (they're not included, but at least Iriver has accessories available for the device). Like the Kindle, this e-reader has a built-in keyboard. The keys are pretty tiny and not terribly user-friendly, but it's not like you're going to use the keyboard all that much. To navigate the menus and turn pages there's a sort of long bar just under the screen in the middle of the device. It's actually a weirdly shaped four-direction joystick that allows you to move around both left and right and up and down. You then have "enter" and "option" buttons just to the right that allow you to select items from the menu or pop up a separate menu (while you're reading) that gives you access to the built-in dictionary, and allows you to add bookmarks and adjust the font size.'

A review of the iRiver Cover Story eReader has been posted over at Pocket-lint. 'The iRiver Cover Story owes its name to a slightly odd cover arrangement. An additional plastic cover comes with the device that will sit over the front to protect the screen, and in use will attach to the back. A choice of colours are available, the idea being that you can personalise your device. It attaches magnetically, but these magnets don't seem to be particularly strong and on a number of occasions we found the cover separated from the device whilst in a bag. A traditional folding cover would be much preferred, but the sleek design doesn't offer any attachment points for such a cover, more's the shame.'

A review of the iRiver T8 MP3 player has been posted over at Computeractive. 'The device is basic compared with more expensive players, but music can be transferred in Windows by dragging and dropping the files into the folder for the player that appears when it's plugged in (the USB connection on the player goes straight into the computer). You can use it as a USB storage device in the same way.'

PC Advisor have published a review of the iRiver T8 MP3 player. 'The iRiver T8 takes the general shape of a biggish (circa 2000) USB thumb drive, and has a USB 2.0 connector under a cap at one end. Simply plug this into your PC and drag-and-drop songs into the drive. It comes in white, black, pink or an appealing matt banana-yellow, and in 2GB and 4GB capacities. The iRiver T8 has a tiny, mono screen, which offers the bare minimum of song details and allows you to navigate through menus. It's about as basic as a screen can be, but is one up on the screen-free shuffle.'

A review of the iRiver Story ereader with Wi-Fi has been posted over at Pocket-lint. 'The solid construction brings the Kindle to mind, with the iRiver Story being very close in its design. Internally you'll find an adequate 2GB of storage (unless you really want to fill it with music or images), but an SD card slot does allow for expansion or the easy addition of files. The version we reviewed came with 100 classics pre-installed which is a nice ploy, but seeing as these books are out of copyright and freely available online, you might find you want to remove the majority - they do make it more difficult to find your own titles.'

A review of the iRiver T8 MP3 player has been posted over at Pocket-lint. 'The T8 is styled like a typical memory stick with a removable cap and choice of 2GB and 4GB capacities. A small, monochrome screen and 3.5mm jack distinguishes it from the blandness of a typical flash drive, along with side-mounted volume, power and a hold switch and front-facing directional pad for navigation. It's also available in a range of colours and features that have now become typical additions in the form of an FM radio, voice recorder, and the ability to combine the two to save radio broadcasts to the internal memory.'

A review of the iRiver Story eBook Reader has been posted over at Coder on Fire. 'Font size is handled well, with three levels of zoom available. I'm happy with the default zoom level that has a nice balance between legibility and the number words on the page. There is also the ability to add your own fonts, but unfortunately this only apples to .txt files and not .epub or .pdfs. I'm hoping this will be resolved in the next firmware update. Transferring files onto the reader was very simple. The devices shows up on the computer as a removable storage device by plugging it in via USB. Dragging and dropping files is all that is required. Unplugging and switching the reader on again will update the internal database and you're ready to read.'

IT Reviews have published a review of the iRiver E200 16GB portable media player. 'On the face of it the iRiver E200 has a huge amount going in its favour. The player has a metal casing that gives it a supremely solid feel and the front is dominated by a four inch screen. As there are no hardware buttons on the front, and only a power button and control lock on the top, you may well assume that it is a touch screen device. Not so. In fact the screen only takes up two thirds of the front and measures 2.8 inches on the diagonal with a resolution of 320 x 240, and the lower third is taken up with a panel of touch controls that you use to change settings and to select and play your videos and music.'

A review of the Iriver Story eReader has been posted over at Computeractive. 'The Story has a sharp, easy-to-read 6in e-ink display that can be viewed in either landscape or portrait mode. Buttons on either side of the screen are used to turn the pages, in whichever hand the device is held. It supports PDF, Epub and text formats for ebooks, as well some office documents (it will read Word, Excel and Powerpoint files), pictures and even audio files, so you can use the device to listen to audiobooks or play music as you read. It has both speakers and an earphone socket.'

IT Reviews have published their review of the iRiver Story ebook reader. 'Primarily intended for the popular ePub format, you'll also find support here for a range of more common standards such as PDF, DOC and TXT and, more intriguingly, Powerpoint and Excel files. Despite this apparent flexibility, it's clear that this is a bit of an afterthought as the readability of some formats, particularly PDF, PPT and XLS, is entirely dependant on the original document resolution and layout, so should not be relied upon. A large 6-inch (800 x 600-pixel) e-ink display offers a few advantages over some of the competition, including most notably an improved battery life. iRiver claims over 100 hours of use from a full charge (or around 9,000 page turns) and although we couldn't confirm this.'