Lookbooks back at CVS for $50

15 years ago

Ravencajun had posted about these a while ago, but I couldn't find Lookbooks in any CVS stores. Last Sunday the CVS ad featured them, but again...none to be found. Weird. This isn't exactly the back of beyond; none in all of Chicagoland? I could buy them from CVS online, but for much more money.

I called the CVS home office in RI. Two days later our local CVS manager called to say he was holding two Lookbooks for me at the $50 price. He'd evidently heard from his boss. Previously he'd just yawned and said to 'try again another time'. We picked them up yesterday afternoon.

One of the two boxes had been opened previously and had no "Quick Start Guide", but since the other one did, I got started, charging both overnight.

I have one up and running -- connected to my WiFi with the update uploaded. (BTW, it didn't want my WiFi *password*. It wanted the WEP number.)

Now I'd like to beg for some help...

How long should the battery last in use? (And, can I just leave it plugged in while I use it?) Has anyone had to replace a battery?

How do I upload books from my city library?

Where is the white-on-black setting option?

The "Dictionary" comes up and accepts a word but won't bring up the definition. ???

Thanks! I've never had an e-reader or I-Pad. I think this is amazing for $50. BTW, our lackadaisical CVS manger said he "expects to get some in stock for the back-to-school season" -- which seems to me to have already begun. If you see it *advertised* but can't find one, call the home office.

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kacram
15 years ago
I wish we had a CVS here! darn!
socks
15 years ago
Is that like a Kindle? I've never heard of it.
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chisue
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15 years ago
I see Kobo has another e-reader with touch-screen. I suspect the Lookbook manufacturer is unloading these 'old' (2010) models via CVS.

Looking at our local library webpage, I think I can download library books, but I'll have to wait until the library opens tomorrow to get help. (Closed Sundays in summer.) I also see that the library expects to be able to download to Kindles in the near future.

Guess I'll have to learn how to get a book onto my computer, then download from the computer to the Lookbook. ???

Have to stop now. Sunday is disappearing into a 'computerized world'. lol
ravencajun Zone 8b TX
15 years ago
the lookbook is darn near the exact same thing as the sharper image Literati, same company makes them.
We LOVE ours, this was my husbands first ereader and he never puts it down now.
Yes you can read while it is plugged in.
Battery last several hours it depends on useage of course and you want to keep the wifi turned off if not using it to download because the wifi uses up the batter faster.

It does have the black with white text for night reading.
I does use epub format books so yes you can get library books with it using over drive, but I have not done that.

I generally just use the SD memory card, which I bought, and load the books that I saved to my pc right to the SD card and then put it in the lookbook and read them that way. The internal memory is a nice size but I find it much easier just to keep all my books in a folder on my pc then just move them to the SD card and that way I can use that SD card on any of my devices that use an SD card. My pandigital novel also uses SD card and epub so I move the card between the 2 and my husband and I can swap out cards too.

You can get them right to your lookbook from the kobo store, but you do have to set up your kobo account and enter that info. I have done several of their free books that way. But you will need to keep the wifi on for doing that part.

My main problem is that I am so used to using touch screen devices I keep trying to flip the pages on the screen instead of touching the button LOL

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I have to go look at mine I think the night read selection is in the display section of the menu.
Also you can go to their website and find the manuals and stuff there too.

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this is the thread we had over on Computer help about it.
Lookbook ereader $49 at CVS

again for under $50 to me it is a deal. I would not have paid the $100 or more price it was originally.
ravencajun Zone 8b TX
15 years ago
I guess that must have been last weeks flier because I just looked at the current flier on CVS and do not see them listed there. I need to call the one I picked mine up at.
I would pick up a couple more as gifts if I see that sale again.
chisue
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15 years ago
ravencajun -- Thanks for the help. (The electronic world is a little over my head, but I keep *trying* and can usually find a way to make something work. I'm the only chance here; DH's brain doesn't work that way. He claims to have gotten the lowest possible score on a mechanical/logical abilities exam he took in college when he thought he might join ROTC. lol)

Yes, it was a week ago that the CVS ad ran here. Keep your eyes open though, as even our dullard CVS manager must be right about something, sometime! He said he expected to have some Lookbooks during back-to-school promotions. The ad did say something about "As supplies last". Have to wonder how many of these 2010 things exist. I'd buy another for our DGS (6).

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