Iain Banks

Unusable for eBook owners     Poorly thought out

The ridiculous camera requirement has been dropped Apparently the publisher decided theyd rather have all those iPod and iPad customers as well Good Of course by now the ebook owners are rightfully starting to complain The design has been upgraded and is decidedly less ugly although there are some quirks left The text of the extra documents however is still unreadable and the audio is still lowquality Also the news section still does not work reliably More than half of the time I get the No internet connection alert But this version does introduce new problems For instance 1 The status bar disappears after returning from a video after which certain screens have a white band at the bottom 2 The Help button does not offer help but just shows the About screen 3 What takes the cake however is the new Beyond the story page Whoever dreamt up the system of typing in a page number to see if theres any extra info to be found should be forcibly enrolled in a Usability 101 course           Less disappointing