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

[Richard England]

Wendell Nichols wrote:
> 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
>
Does it handle ODF documents, though?  The date at the web page does not 
indicate that it does.

~~R

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