Can the comic reader you are using also handle .CBR files?
No. It just pulls in daily comic strips from the web (such as Calvin and Hobbes, Garfield Minus Garfield, and so on), to save you from having to visit dozens of websites.
Do you use FB reader or have you found something better?
What PDF reader are you using? I'd like to have one with good note taking and bookmark functions. Maybe even highlighting as I've picked up a study at my old age. Wouldn't mind paying.
I haven't done any PDF-reading at all, so I'm afraid I don't know what's available on that front - sorry!
EDIT: Alright, it's time for the final day of the ongoing review, which is basically a final run-down of my thoughts after one week with the device.
In spite of an awkward start and extreme annoyance at the crypticness of some aspects of the Android "Honeycomb" operating system (something which I can only assume is inherited from the telephone versions of Android), I'm now finding Android to be very fun to use. I wouldn't recommend it to a complete beginner because of the cryptic and nonsensical icons that are still scattered here and there, and I would certainly recommend reading up on the OS prior to purchase even if you are experienced with technology (this is something that I deliberately did not do, because I wanted to approach this review from the perspective of a *complete* Android beginner), but it is obvious that the issues with the interface are actively being worked on, which the system update which (in part) removed the cryptic behaviour of the desktop background settings, proved.
One particularly nice touch that I've observed during the last day or so, has been that instead of letting you open too many tabs and end up crashing the browser, you will simply not be allowed to open more tabs once the limit has been reached - at least until you close one or more of the existing ones. I'm not sure if this was present before, or if it was added by the update that I mentioned, but it is a nice touch, and I think that it's a good example of how things need to continue for this OS.
There are still some stability issues with the stock applications* (for example, sometimes the browser crashes for no reason whatsoever), but I am confident that this will change with time. As I mentioned above, it's obvious that improvements are being actively made and rolled out. Obviously, I'm not going to judge what the OS provides on the basis of third-party applications that may be unstable. Those responsible for them tend to warn of that, anyway, or at the very least the user reviews often do if such a thing is an issue, so you usually know what you're getting.
I look forward to seeing further improvements, because, for an OS so very early in its life, Android is clearly doing very well indeed.
As for the hardware, I've only had to charge it a couple of times over the course of the entire week, and it's done very well at having roughly the promised battery-life. The moment where it was making Reaverbot noises and demanding to be recharged was most amusing, and I won't forget that in a hurry - I will also make sure to turn the volume down on nights where it might approach the end of its charge when in sleep mode.
Oddly, after the first night, it started losing a bit more charge percentage when left in sleep mode overnight, but this hasn't been an enormous problem. I can only assume that this might be because I've been leaving WiFi on when putting it down, but I don't know that for sure.
I know that I haven't covered the cameras at all before now, but I just wanted to make a quick note to say that for what they are, they're quite nice, and the software-controlled interface for taking pictures with them, whilst a bit basic, is fun, intuitive, and functional. They aren't something I particularly care about, though, which is why they never got a mention until now.
As the week has gone on, my appreciation of how solid and well-built it is has continued, and I've come to see how much thought was put into the design of both halves, as a whole. This ranges from the smooth metal edging which hides where, on other similar products, the seams would be, to the textured surface on both the tablet and keyboard halves, to the fact that the hinge of the laptop half is made of thick metal with a fabric lining, instead of plastic that might scratch the tablet side. The resolution of the screen is also greatly appreciated - from my research prior to purchase, it seems that 1280x800 (which was also the resolution of the x86-based MacBook that my Eee Pad Transformer has superseded for my daily computing work) is only available on a few Android tablets right now, with 1024x600 and 1024x768 being what's available on everything else in this product category. Asus have outdone themselves with this, and it's very well-deserving of praise.
All in all, I think I chose the right device for my requirements, as the Eee Pad is excelling with them. After all, technology that works well becomes a part of its users day-to-day life and work (whilst technology that doesn't work well finds itself needing to be shoehorned in, instead). If you're after something that's a bit more flexible than just a tablet and which can function as a competent computer in its own right (and which has a very good battery life), I would say that this is certainly worthy of your consideration.
Thankyou to those who've read the review over the course of the last week. It's been an interesting experience to write it, and to observe my opinions changing as the device has become more and more useful (and it's certainly interesting to me to see how differently I see it now to the way I saw it one week ago
). I hope that it proves to be useful to anyone who's looking at those types of devices.
