[Reader-users] Newbie Questions

[Chris Meredith]

Greetings.

I just received my device yesterday, and have a few questions:

*         Can the device scan plastic cards (i.e. the CVV numbers on credit cards, etc.)?  I've tried both my Microsoft Developer Network membership card and my employee badge, and the only thing I can seem to get a fix on is the bus pass sticker on my employee badge.

*         Pitfalls I'm likely to run into using this to scan books or magazines?  This seemed initially a nice way to read a book on, say, a rather long flight I've got to take in the next while without having to have scanned in the entire book in the first place, but books are something I'm getting very inconsistent results on (it should be noted that smaller documents, as well as the bus schedules by the various stops here, read fine).

*         Whilst I see, in the documentation, a section on "installing or realigning the polarizers", I see nothing in the docs about where the polarizers ARE in the first place.  Is this by design?
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Greetings.
 
I just received my device yesterday, and have a few questions:
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<![endif]>Can the device scan plastic cards (i.e. the CVV numbers on credit cards, etc.)?  I&#8217;ve tried both my Microsoft Developer Network membership card and my employee badge, and the only thing I can seem to get a fix on is the bus pass sticker on my employee badge.
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<![endif]>Pitfalls I&#8217;m likely to run into using this to scan books or magazines?  This seemed initially a nice way to read a book on, say, a rather long flight I&#8217;ve got to take in the next while without having to have scanned in the entire book in the first place, but books are something I&#8217;m getting very inconsistent results on (it should be noted that smaller documents, as well as the bus schedules by the various stops here, read fine).
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<![endif]>Whilst I see, in the documentation, a section on &#8220;installing or realigning the polarizers&#8221;, I see nothing in the docs about where the polarizers
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in the first place.  Is this by design?