What's inside the evrit reader?

[Elazar Leibovich]

The main trick about the e-books that everyone seems to miss, is the
e-ink technology. From my own experience, the e-reader's screen is
much more comfortable to the eyes.

2010/5/31 Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il>:
> How about the Nokia N770 Internet Tablet + FBReader  as an e-book reader?
> It runs Linux and is very comfortable, although it's a smaller LCD screen...
> FBReader has Hebrew support, but I wonder how do I get Hebrew e-books to use
> on it....?
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> Amichai Rotman
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> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 18:38, sammy ominsky <s at avoidant.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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
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