Comments on: Augen “The Book” eBook Reader

By: vern

vern — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:01:42 +0000

Does anyone know how to delete books and music from memory of TB I am having nothing but trouble and can not find a manual online.thanks

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:14:13 +0000

I’m pretty sure Augen went out of business some time back. I haven’t heard of that problem before; maybe there’s something that has to be adjusted in settings.

By: clifton

clifton — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:00:13 +0000

I cant get the stupid browser to work. All i get is dhcp enable or whatever the mumbo jumbo and getting to the support page for augen all you get is error 404 or whatever. they don’t have a support office in africa so what do i do?

By: Carlos O

Carlos O — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 01:42:34 +0000

Tengho un Eboog Augen desde hace dos semanas, esta buenisimo, con los libros gratis, mas los que cargue yo, fotos, videos, todo funciona, WIFI tambien y me conecte a internet ( una vez se tildo ). }ahora leia un libro y se quedo en una pagina y no se mueve ni para atras ni adelante, apago el ebook y al rato lo enciendo y ahi esta la pagina congelada, que hago por favor si alguien me ayuda. Gracias

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 05:03:26 +0000

I HAVE managed to download Windows programs on THE BOOK, both in its memory and on an SD card and then transfer them to my PC to run them!! In fact, you CAN download just about anything onto it as long as you have enough room either in its memory or SD card. Just don’t expect to RUN everything you download on it on itself. You CAN also use the keyboard to type things on websites. Don’t expect to watch YouTube videos on it as YouTube will tell you that your browser is too old.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:23:14 +0000

Wow, it’s been exactly one year since this post was made. As far as I can recall, you cannot really download anything to it unless you want to spend a lot of time messing with the wonky web browser. Mostly you have to sideload content onto it via USB or on a memory card.

By: suzie

suzie — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:12:31 +0000

HOW CAN I DOWN LOAD ANYTHING TO IT?

By: TERRI

TERRI — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:35:46 +0000

HELP! I can’t get The Book to do anything. When I try to connect to WiFi it says to check dhcp is enabled. I tried to put a couple of free books on it and it says something about DMR. Even in Adobe it says unsupported format. Once it gets set up it may be nice but this is a nightmare.

By: Ivan

Ivan — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 01:28:57 +0000

Does anyone have the answer to the earlier question about DHCP? I get the same message when trying to connect to some un-locked WIFI: “check dhcp enabled”. I called the help desk and they told me to return it to where I bought it because it is defective. That sounds crazy….. PLEASE HELP, SOMEBODY

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:18:33 +0000

Kelsey,
The 150 books can be found under “Library” and then “Free eBooks”.
And did anyone answer the earlier question about DHCP? I get the same message when trying to connect to some un-locked WIFI: “check dhcp enabled”

By: Kesley

Kesley — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 20:01:42 +0000

I received the Augen “The Book” for my birthday, and I haven’t been able to find the 150 preloaded books. I don’t know if i have to download them or what? Can anyone help me with this??

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 03:06:53 +0000

Amazon's ebooks only work on the Kindle and Kindle apps. Once you setup Adobe Digital Editions on your computer and authorize the Augen it will read ebooks with Adobe DRM from the websites on the ebooks page that lists EPUB.

By: leslie

leslie — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 02:26:01 +0000

Can i buy books for a kindle on amazon.com and put it on the book by augen? On the Book I clicked on the Buy books button and the site for it came up. I looked for the books I wanted and they didn’t have any… but they have the books at amazon. Or are there any other sites that would work to put books on my Book by augen??

By: Kinzie

Kinzie — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 22:09:52 +0000

I just got this ebook today, but when i tried to connect to wifi it said “check dhcp enabled” or something along those lines. What does it mean?

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:16:28 +0000

I bought one and took it back for a refund. Found lots of issues.

1. The wifi interface is not configurable and the range is horrible. Connection rely on DHCP being active and it appears ready to hook up to only unsecured wifi hotspots. I needed the MAC Address to enter into my wireless router as I have MAC address filtering activated. The MAC address was blank in the System Info screen. So, I tried tech support. Really hard to get an answer from them, but perseverance won out.
2. The tech support staff was not very helpful. The first guy told me to download a patch from
http://rapidshare.com/files/408236101/EBA701_V6_0721_-MAC_address.zip.html . Well I got the patch and the instructions (Readme file) may as well have been in a foreign language. None of the instructions worked. Some of the file referenced weren’t in the zipped file. I carefully typed each command line and triple checked it before entering. I could not get the patch to work even with – my second call to tech support. This guy wasn’t helpful at all. Also, I was wondering why, AugenUS.com would have a support page with a folder for The Book but you have to go to rapidshare to get the patch. Why have to go to a site that throttles download speeds unless you pay for their service when you have a web site that can be used.
Bottom line on patches and firmware upgrades, if you are supporting GUI machines make the installation GUI also.
3. The user manual that comes with the product is also woefully lacking and had two errata sheets inside the manual that you could not read without a magnifying glass. The online version include in The Book was equally unhelpful with the machine’s operation.
4. I could get the USB connection to connect to a Vista Operating System, but Windows 7 wouldn’t connect.
5. I tried two different SD memory cards and it did not recognize either (one 8GB SanDisk and one 8GB PNY), although when I insert then in my computer they worked fine.
6. The case is a wonderful idea, but some sort of pocket to hold ear phones, the USB cable and the power cord would be nice.
7. A cigarette lighter adapter for a vehicle would be a good idea also as well as headphones. Guess they needed to keep price under their $100.00 market survey.
8. The switching display from landscape to portrait is wonderful, but it’s too touchy. Barely move the device and it switched from one mode to the other.
9. There joystick button when press only sometimes acts and the enter button.
10. The power button is difficult to get and should possibly be put on top near the keyboard. But this is a minor inconvenience.
11. The reset button and access hole could be a bit bigger. I couldn’t even get a normal paperclip in the hole when the tech told me to reset the device.

Maybe The Book II will fix some of the problems if they ever release one.