[Morgan_Wu]

Foxit eSlick eBook Reader powered by E-Ink technology



Hi everyone,

I am offering to take orders for the Foxit eSlick eBook Reader, a portable novel-sized reading device that allows you to read your eBooks, documents, anything at all.

The company Foxit produces one of the best LIGHTWEIGHT PDF Reader for Windows, and is the best alternative to the Adobe Reader to read your PDF documents.

And they have come up with the eSlick, combining their PDF technology with an ebook reading device.

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For those who have yet to heard about the Amazon Kindle, the eBook reading device that has taken US by storm, the eSlick uses the exact same technology, minus the DRM lockdown.

Its 6" E-Ink (otherwise known as ePaper) reads off just like paper! And thats not all, the e-Ink screen does not use any energy to display, but only sips energy when a page change (refresh) is needed. That way, average battery life extends around 2 weeks, depending on usage.

Of course, we are more than willing to allow you to sample the units, as we are currently making arrangements to have the eSlick displayed in a few retail outlets. But from now till then, you can make arrangements with us to sample the demo units we have as and when we are free.

And believe me reading enthusiasists, you will love this device

For more information, check out: eSlick Reader

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PRICE

The street price of the eSlick eBook reader is SGD$499.

As an introductory promotion, we are now offering it at SGD$419 , a downpayment of SGD$50 is required to guarantee your order. We will make a mass order everytime we have up to 5 orders.

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Warranty

We will be offering 1 year limited warranty. 90 days for parts and labor. Warranty is provided by the official reseller of Foxit in Singapore. The company will provide a one to one exchange on the spot (subjected to availability of units).

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Bundle

- We will be bundling the entire eSlick device with 450 FREE eBooks, and Calibre, a eBook management utility that you can sync your eSlick with. You may request the book list from me. I also have a list of website that provide free eBooks for download, you may also request the list from me.

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Contact

You can post here on the thread and I will check it frequently and answer any queries you guys might have.

Or otherwise you can contact me at minhan@desinix.com .

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Method of Payment

Cash or Internet Banking

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Duration

There is no fixed date for the validity of the MO. The MO will end every time there are 5 orders. I will post a new MO each time the previous one end until the official reseller in Singapore discontinue this offer.

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COMPLETED ORDERS (special circumstances)

1) meng
2) jason
3) ranny
4) Toi

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CURRENT MO ORDER LIST (MO 1)
No. Name Status
1 rikyuuu Deposit Paid
2 peanut Deposit Paid
3 Milkcheese Notified to make deposit
4 rayvmar Deposit Paid
5 khongbeng Deposit Paid

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Color for synthetic leather cover

No. Name Color
1 Morgan Black
2 hope_lcs Black
3 nuube Black
4 ranny Black
5 meng Black
6 rayvmar Black
7 rikyuuu Black
8 Peanut White
9 Jason Black
10

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Some pictures i took when i am trying it out.





As thin as a pen.



Photo taken with camera flash off.



Photo taken with camera flash on. Notice that the screen is still clear and highly readable. In fact, the brighter the surroundings (under the sun), the better the words look!



Comic test.



Jap character test.



Chinese character test.



Jurassic park, one of my favorites.


The pictures below would be of interests of you professors out there who read journals regularly



Journal in original PDF.



After using the reflow function on the eSlick.



When journal is saved as .text and read as text.



Free BBC full content news paper. Download able from feedbooks.com.



Example of how it looks in the newspaper.



An eBook from feedbooks.com. This picture was captured at the instance the screen was refreshing. Hence the inverted colors.



How the book looks like inside.

Order now before it appears in the retail shops without the offer!

NOTE: ORDER WILL RESUME

Foxit just updated with us that they are ramping up production drastically to cope with the unprecedented demand. Foxit is now accepting new orders again and has adviced the Singapore distributor accordingly.

Hence i will start collecting deposits from now. Do note that if i do no receive the deposit promptly, i have the right to move the following order up.

Add: The order is expected to arrive mid-July. Thats what Foxit said.

[ColdFusion]

Looks interesting. Received IC already. Up

[Zabuton]

hi, some question

1. when can the delivery of the device be expected after the min 5 MO orders are met?

2. Does it comes with Foxit Reader Pro Pack and Foxit PDF Creator (per Foxit website)?

3. Does it comes with a jacket or do you need to purchase one? If yes, do you have it and how much?

[alpha1ma]

finally up le! nice nice!

[dr_disciple]

Can I request the list of eBooks that is bundled with the eSlick? I'm comparing it with Kindle.......

[Morgan_Wu]

To Zabuton:

1. Shouldn't be more than a month. It depends on the production cycle. When the reseller brought in the samples, it was lucky that Foxit just completed a batch. If not got to wait for the next batch. But Foxit shouldnt have problem fulfilling a 5 pc order. I would update all buyers regarding this accordingly.

2. Yes it does.

3. It does not come with a jacket. Foxit does offer genuine or synthetic leather jacket. The genuine leather jacket is 39USD, and synthetic leather jacket is 19USD. You may order this together with your eSlick. I have to double confirm with the reseller whether there would be shipping charges or not.

To dr_disciple:

Yup i will probably post an excel sheet of the title soon. Need some time to do it, since i got to copy and paste the titles manually.

The buyer will also get a list of websites that provide free/paid ebooks. And lastly, since the eslick is DRM free and reads pdf, aiya, you guys know what i mean.

[ju2ner]

Hi sir,

Can you post pictures of IT/Networking/System pdf and chm loaded? ideally with text and network diagram shown? Thanks in advance.

[Morgan_Wu]

^^ ju2ner, i dont think my 20 odd years of life experience on earth gives me the honor to be addressed as sir.

I will post the pictures u requested soon. i need to get the materials from a friend first.

[Boni]

how is this compare to the kindle 2?

[rikyuuu]

Wow this looks pretty good. I would like to place a confirmed order on it. Will the purchase only be placed when you have gathered 5 orders?

[bahbah13]

it does not have the touch screen and back lite function that
prs 700 has??

[Morgan_Wu]

To Ju2ner:

Please email me the file you would like to to test for you. I figured its the best way.

To Boni:

Its quite difficult to compare this to the kindle, because they are almost 2 different animals altogether.

Kindle is propriety, its has a lot of services (3G, amazon store, etc) built into it to service a very niche market, and it has has monthly subscription. Furthermore, you never really own the ebooks you purchased. If amazon, for some reason, decided to terminate or suspend your amazon account, your ebooks will become unreadable.

eSlick, on the other hand, is very simple. It offers no DRM protection, it IS built to handle just PDF, no monthly subscription, and you own the stuff that you put into it (of coz!).

Its 2 totally different product philosophies altogether. You got to judge for yourself is freedom or convenience more important to you. (although the convenience part doesnt apply to Singapore market anyway, you cant use the kindle 3G feature here).

To rikyuuu:

I will place your name in the list first. Once i hit 5, i will start collecting deposit. This MO is combined with another one in SGHeadphones and HWZ. Hence it doesnt have to hit 5 here. Anyway, there are some stock in Singapore now. So if you are the lone wolf, u would be able to get yours too.

To Bahbah13:

Nope, no eReaders has a backlite screen. The PRS 700 has got a LED shining at the screen. The eslick does not has a touch screen.

[kitaeshi]

The pictures below would be of interests of you professors out there who read journals regularly



the rest seem alright, only this one seem too small to read, guess its not suitable for magazine... btw this is the biggest screen available?

[Morgan_Wu]

Actually, its quite alrite if you read it in landscape. I will post pictures of the journal in landscape soon.

And yeah, this is the biggest screen available.

This is what i discovered though, the primary aim for the readers now are portability. 6' screens nicely mimic a typical novel. If you go any larger, i doubt people would want to bring it around and read on the MRT.

There is a problem of warping too. As the screen gets larger, the back of the screen has to be harder. And there is the problem of accidentally bending the reader in your bag.

[guy_]

I have been following the mobileread community for sometime, and I have thought about getting a ereader before (researched this device too). Allow me to share some comments on this eSlick device.

eSlick is basically using the EB600 hardware by Netronix. For manga reading, 8-level gray scale is the minimum recommended specification so the eSlick might not be your ideal manga reader. Its CPU 400MHz is above average, and this is important since eSlick does not support PDF natively. It doesn't support DRMed-PDFs but I doubt the local community will be affected by it for obvious reasons . Although eSlick supports reflow, it is not recommended for reading technical documents with lots of diagrams and charts. Lastly, it is quite cheap when comparing to other readers.

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