What's inside the evrit reader?

[sammy ominsky]

On 30/05/2010, at 16:54, geoffrey mendelson wrote:

> As a disabled person, I really like the idea that a library can rent number of digital copies of books, and lend them out over the internet with DRM set to self destruct in 2 weeks. That way someone can check them out and not bother to return them, at the end of two weeks, they can lend them out again.

This is an excellent idea.  I wonder why nobody's doing it?


> That's why I used a frowny. I expect they will bomb and Steimatsky will be selling them on close out to get rid of them. They will definately lower the price to get people to buy their overpriced books.

At which point the frowny face becomes a smiley.  The fact that this device HAS DRM doesn't mean it *REQUIRES* DRM.  I have many many ebooks, and a dedicated reader on clearance that reads the books I already have or may get in the future by channels other than the official one, would be a wonderful thing!  Currently I read ebooks on my iPhone with Stanza, and it's extremely usable, but not ideal.  A trade- or regular paperback sized eink reader would be perfect.



> Nook... thing that will be missing is Hebrew and I'm sure someone will figure out how to include it.

It's running Android, and has already been rooted, so I suspect Hebrew's no problem.


> As for libraries, Israel suffers because Andrew Carnegie was neither a Jew nor a zionist, though only a librarian from the US is likely to understand the comment.

Or Enoch Pratt in Maryland :)

--sambo