What's inside the evrit reader?

[Dov Grobgeld]

As far as I understand it is published in epub. Probably in encrypted epub,
which is not supported by any free software readers as it needs a
proprietary module by Adobe. See:

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/digitalpublishing/

But again, it is just a guess that this is what Evrit is using.

Dov

On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 12:45, Stan Goodman <stan.goodman at hashkedim.com>wrote:

> At 12:18:16 on Sunday Sunday 30 May 2010, Dotan Cohen
> <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 30 May 2010 09:48, geoffrey mendelson <geoffreymendelson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > On May 30, 2010, at 9:26 AM, Dov Grobgeld wrote:
> > >> Does anyone have any idea of what software is running on the new
> > >> Hebrew e-ink reader evrit? Their web-page does not mention say a
> > >> word about what platform it is running on, what processor it uses,
> > >> whether it is firmware upgradable, etc.
> > >
> > > I saw the article in Yediot. I really don't care what is inside, I
> > > want to know how much storage it has, if it has a USB port or memory
> > > card slot for extra storage, the size and type of the screen and what
> > > formats it reads. It's also awfully expensive, more than a Kindle or
> > > Nook but less than an iPad.
>
> It might be worthwhile to wait until Steimatzky figures out that it is in
> the book trade, not in the electronic equipment business, and follows
> Amazon in making available a free (as in lunch) software version that one
> can use on equipment that one already has. I think they may have failed
> to think through the need to provide hardware support for malfunctioning
> gadgets. I'm using the Kimble PC on both desktop and laptom machines (in
> a WinXP virtual machine -- it will work under Wine as well) and am very
> happy with it. Bonus surprise: when I buy a book through the desktop
> machine, it shows up automagically on the laptop as well, complete with
> the place at which I stopped reading last time. What can be better.
>
> In what format does Steimatzky publish its ebooks? Is it something exotic
> that it is not supported by one of the freebie software readers?
>
> --
> Stan Goodman
> Qiryat Tiv'on
> Israel
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