The `album' is a neat, compact and portable way of carrying around a considerable number of slides to show to friends, etc. The screen is postcard size (wide screen) gives good definition and colour-rendering, and the viewing angle is adequate for satisfactory simultaneous viewing by 2-3 people sitting side by side. Standard digital photos can be displayed full screen, with a narrow strip cropped from the two long sides as happens with prints by most commercial printing services, but there is an easily selected option to display the full photo in 4:3 format, with narrow blank strips at the short sides of the screen.
The claimed `up to 40,000 pictures' capacity is a bit unrealistic as that allows only 100kb per picture. This would give a fair quality of picture at postcard size but most people will take pictures at much higher resolution. However, even at 4MB each, that's still 1,000 pictures which should be more than enough to bore the pants off your friends, and be quite tedious to locate individual pictures within the fairly limited filing system. Extra pictures can be accessed by plugging in an SD card or USB memory stick
Pictures are stored in numbered `galleries' (up to 1000 galleries) but these are on a single level, and cannot be organised in a hierarchic `tree'. Galleries have just numbers (1,2,3 etc) and cannot be given names. The index appears as a line for each gallery, with the gallery number and 5 representative thumbnails of pictures within it (first, last and 3 intermediate pictures) making up the index line. If many galleries are created, you might need to make a paper list of them and their contents to find the one you want to display. (I solved the gallery title problem by creating a slide with title details in Powerpoint, saving it as a JPEG and making it the first slide in the gallery, so that it shows in the gallery index list. One could create similar slides by preparing them on paper and scanning or photographing them)
The black leather cover with silver body version looks elegant (more so than other colour combinations, in my view) but is strangely designed in that the cover does not fasten down to securely protect the screen, but is loose and projects 7mm beyond it - making the album slightly bigger than it needs to be, to no obvious purpose.
Though quite expensive, this is a good product and I am pleased with it; an improved filing system and modest redesign of the cover would make it truly superb.