Here's my experience after two hours with the ECTACO jetBook-Lite, an AA-battery-operated dedicated e-book reader with a very nice black-and-white non-backlit LCD screen instead of an E Ink display. I bought this specifically to read eReader-formatted books from Fictionwise.com. Fictionwise is promoting the jetBook-Lite on its site. Despite Fictionwise's ad here, which shows "Dictionary" as the first menu choice (click on photo for detailed view), dictionary lookup is not supported with eReader files. It works only with plain text files---or maybe with some other formats---but not with eReader, whether DRM'd or not. Really, Fictionwise-folk, you must...

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Robert J. Sawyer---one of Canada’s leading SF writers---has published 18 novels, won the Nebula and Hugo, and appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Amazing Stories and other leading publications. His latest book is Wake. I’m reproducing with permission a post to Fictionwise’s e-mail list. Thanks, Rob, and we hope you’ll be back soon in the TeleBlog. – D.R. OK, I've just received got my Foxit eSlick (company info here), under the current Fictionwise promotion. Delivery was very fast, even to Canada. I've waited a long time for an E Ink e-book-reading device that supports...

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