
by MisterTickle
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The Hip Street Digital Text Reader is quite an inexpensive e-reader. Although this e-reader is cheaper compared to the major brands, it can still do quite a bit. This is a 4 GB e-reader, with microSD card capacity expansion. On the specifications page, I saw that this e-reader accepts all the major eBook and non-eBook formats. Some of the formats include ePub, Mobi, HTML, PDF, and TXT. There are a few more formats that this e-reader accepts, but these are just the major ones. I actually have a few eBooks from another device that I have transferred to the Hip Street e-reader to test out.
This e-reader has a 7 inch LCD screen. It comes with a built in speaker and microphone. The screen is touch screen so I can navigate with my fingers rather than pressing different buttons. It comes with
three features which are text to speech, clock, and bookmark. I was a bit disappointed to see that they do not have a built in dictionary. Just about all e-readers I’ve seen have a built in dictionary. It’s true that some dictionaries are better than others in terms of word capacity and accuracy. However, I am still disappointed just the same because no dictionary is present.
The actual performance of this e-reader isn’t the greatest. Just because it can accept many formats, it doesn’t mean it can display them very well. I’ve used all the text formats and I find that the TXT file format is probably the worst displayed. For the text file format, I created my own text file actually. I just typed a paragraph or two with some special formatting such as indentation at various places and alignment. While viewing ...