[time-nuts] Stuff I bought
Neon John
jgd at johngsbbq.com
Fri Dec 28 03:37:47 UTC 2007
On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:55:27 +0000 (GMT), Robert Atkinson <robert8rpi at yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
>Hi,
> my holiday gift this year was a Sony PRS-505 Reader.
> http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId=-1&categoryId=16184
> This is not as off-topic as it seems, as well as books these work well with PDF's and the ePaper display uses no power except when it changes. No more printing a couple of pages of a datasheet to use at the bench, only to bin them later.
> Unfortunatly they don't sell then outside North America (copyright issues with the books apparently) but they do work in Europe , contary to what the store attendants tried to tell me! It will play MP3's while you read too!
>
Oh crap, there goes February's food budget.....
Being a card-carrying Sony hater (We give you le$$ for more, lock you into
proprietary formats and then sue your balls off), I did some quick looking and found
this page:
http://www.eink.com/products/customers_app.html
This is a list of products that use the eInk electronic paper display. I'm just
going goo-goo for that iRex iLiad. Reads and writes, large screen, WiFi and Ethernet
and compatible with MobiPocket formatted eBooks. MobiPocket books for the Palm have
become somewhat of a standard.
I'm also enchanted with the Bookeen open source reader with embedded Linux. If it
only had WiFi.
If you're unfortunate enough to live in a large city, you might want to take a look
at the Amazon Kindle. Its most interesting feature is built-in free EVDO
connectivity.
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Robert, How does that gadget handle graphics and photos? The eInk site says that
the display only does 4 levels of greyscale. My main interest in a reader is to be
able to carry around my reference library so the ability to display both line art and
greyscale is important.
John
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