linux-friendly ebook with decent support in Israel?

[geoffrey mendelson]

On 1/9/2014 3:08 PM, Vassilii Khachaturov wrote:
> Thanks for your answer. When I posted a link to a matrix of all the 
> current eink-based readers, I assumed it is obvious I want an e-ink 
> based one. I'd think dedicated reader would be more 
> energy/weight/price efficient than a general purpose tablet, but 
> anything with e-ink will do! Also, as I had stated, I'm not interested 
> in buying DRM books anyway...

Not really. You can buy an active display android tablet for about the 
same money. E-ink displays are more energy efficient, but slow. You end 
up hitting the next button before you finish a page in the hope that it 
starts to refresh before you get to the last word in the page and 
finishes as you do.

They also suck for displaying material that was originally color or 
scanned material. I have many books that were scanned and they are 
unreadable on an e-ink display,

E-ink was an idea which came and went.

I also found that battery life was exaggerated by the vendors, being a 
fast reader, I got about 6-8 hours of reading out of a charge. This was 
both on an original Kindle (with a new battery and cellular turned off) 
and an original nook with wifi turned off. They list some enormous 
number of "page flips" which does not mean a lot, your average paperback 
book needs 3-4 "flips" to cover one page of paper. An A4 page of 10 
point type takes a lot of them.

As for DRM books, I figured that out, but they do drive the market. 
People are no longer satisfied with only one vendor and want the ability 
to buy them from many vendors which means a tablet, not a reader.

Just for the heck of it I looked up original iPads on Yad2. They go for 
about 600 NIS, which makes it not worth buying a dedicated reader, 
especially if you have to pay postage from the US and VAT.

Geoff.

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Geoffrey S. Mendelson 4X1GM/N3OWJ
Jerusalem Israel.