freezing actually.  Frankly, the specs package on this Interead Cool-er e-reader is less than amazing and at a MSRP of $250, I think most folks are going to brown bag it for lunch a couple days and come up with the extra $9 to get either the Barnes and Noble Nook or the Kindle 2.

• 6-inch e-ink screen
• 1 gb ram
• SD card slot
• 2.5 mm headphone jack (comes with a 3.5″ converter)
• Formats: EPUB, TXT, JPEG, PDF, MP3 for audio

This device is meant to be for people who are not technologically advanced.  There’s no wi-fi or 3g so all books have to be loaded via SD card or a USB cable.  I’m not sure what Interead is thinking.  You are making a device for those who aren’t tech savvy and you are expecting them to be able to plug this thing into a computer and move files onto it?  For some of my relatives (who shall remain nameless) they don’t understand email…they don’t understand a directory structure and they are seriously frightened to plug anything into their computer.  Then again maybe that’s not the market they’re really going for because those are the folks who are scared to even touch my kindle.

Anyway, truth be told, I haven’t actually tried one of these, but the specs along with the relatively high price tag would make me head for Barnes and Noble (or Amazon).