As far as I understand it is published in epub. Probably in encrypted epub, which is not supported by any free software readers as it needs a proprietary module by Adobe. See:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/digitalpublishing/ But again, it is just a guess that this is what Evrit is using. Dov On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 12:45, Stan Goodman <stan.good...@hashkedim.com>wrote: > At 12:18:16 on Sunday Sunday 30 May 2010, Dotan Cohen > <dotanco...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 30 May 2010 09:48, geoffrey mendelson <geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > On May 30, 2010, at 9:26 AM, Dov Grobgeld wrote: > > >> Does anyone have any idea of what software is running on the new > > >> Hebrew e-ink reader evrit? Their web-page does not mention say a > > >> word about what platform it is running on, what processor it uses, > > >> whether it is firmware upgradable, etc. > > > > > > I saw the article in Yediot. I really don't care what is inside, I > > > want to know how much storage it has, if it has a USB port or memory > > > card slot for extra storage, the size and type of the screen and what > > > formats it reads. It's also awfully expensive, more than a Kindle or > > > Nook but less than an iPad. > > It might be worthwhile to wait until Steimatzky figures out that it is in > the book trade, not in the electronic equipment business, and follows > Amazon in making available a free (as in lunch) software version that one > can use on equipment that one already has. I think they may have failed > to think through the need to provide hardware support for malfunctioning > gadgets. I'm using the Kimble PC on both desktop and laptom machines (in > a WinXP virtual machine -- it will work under Wine as well) and am very > happy with it. Bonus surprise: when I buy a book through the desktop > machine, it shows up automagically on the laptop as well, complete with > the place at which I stopped reading last time. What can be better. > > In what format does Steimatzky publish its ebooks? Is it something exotic > that it is not supported by one of the freebie software readers? > > -- > Stan Goodman > Qiryat Tiv'on > Israel > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >
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