What's inside the evrit reader?

[Dov Grobgeld]

I've read *lots* of ebooks on portable devices. I started off on my
PalmIIIx, which was a bit of a pain because of the low resolution and the
low contrast, continued on my Palm E2, which was great, and now I'm using
FBReader on my Nokia N900, which is near perfect. One of the advantages of
the latter two devices is that the screen is backlit, which is great when
reading in bed. No need to turn on an extra light. The only books that are
definitely not comfortable are prebroken texts, e.g. in PDF files. Note that
these are often technical texts where you need to do a lot of flipping back
and forth, e.g. to look up a definition. And eink is notoriously bad for
such use, because of its low refresh rate. See e.g.:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2011938870_kindle24.html

Thus I actually have no need for an eink device, but on the other hand
nobody is selling Hebrew books that can be read on the N900, nor are they
likely to ever do it. I'm also curious how it is to read a whole book on
ebook device.

Regards,
Dov



On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 20:47, Elazar Leibovich <elazarl at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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....?
> >
> > .:====================================================:.
> >
> > Amichai Rotman
> >
> > Registered Linux User#: 201192 [http://counter.li.org/]
> > Registered Ubuntu User #12851 [http://ubuntucounter.geekosophical.net]
> >
> >
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > .:====================================================:.
> >
> >
> > 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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