Book Readers (E-Books) w.r.t. Fedora Interoperation

Wendell Nichols wcn00 at shaw.ca
Sun Jun 21 14:58:17 UTC 2009


On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 7:01 AM, jack wallen<jlwallen at monkeypantz.net> 
wrote:
>> Frank Murphy wrote:
>>     
>>> Looking for user experiences with e-book readers.
>>> Against maybe buying a 7" netbook for same purpose.
>>>
>>> Trying to cut down on space use\Paper book purchases.
>>>
>>>       
>> well, i got a kindle for father's day. it was given to me a few days ago
>> and i LOVE it. AND it runs Linux. they are about the same price as a
>> netbook but your eyes won't start aching after hours of reading.
>>     
>
> While the kindle isn't ideal in terms of openness, if you want a
> dedicated device for reading ebooks it is very nice in some important
> ways. The display is far superior to any LCD based device in my
> opinion and if you turn off the wireless the battery lasts an amazing
> amount of time. You can download a vast number of ebooks in various
> formats from amazon and several other places. If you only want to read
> books from Project Gutenberg or other non-amazon choices that is fine
> too. The biggest functional weakness of the device as a book reader is
> its incredibly limited organizational capabilities.
>
> I've used FBReader for several years on Nokia Internet Tablets
> (N770,N800) and have been very happy with it also if you prefer
> reading on a smaller display. While the brightness of the LCD does
> tire your eyes faster not having to scan left to right compensates to
> a degree.
>
> I haven't ever been a fan of reading ebooks on larger displays really
> so don't have any useful experience on notebooks or desktops.
>
> John
>
>   
I await the delivery of the Plastic Logic reader early next year with 
baited breath :) 
http://www.plasticlogic.com/

This device represents a 10x improvement over all other readers in terms 
of size, weight, energy requirements and flexability.
wcn




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