On Feb 17, 2011, at 11:57 AM, Amichai Rotman wrote:
Hi all,
Terrible for photos / pictures. Too dark, no colors and slow. The
books' covers and in-book diagrams and line art look great!
User Experience:
As I mentioned, I am very happy with the device. It is very light
and under the right lighting conditions it is very clear and fun to
read from. Using it under the sun was even better than under
florescent light.
I downloaded a sample book from the Barns & Noble site (what they
call a 'NookBook) and transfered it to the device directly (an .epub
file) - and begun reading immediately! no DRM, no conversion - out
of the download! I called their Customer Support (voice - I needed
to hear it) and asked if it is because it's a sample. the
representative said the sample is technically the same as the full
book!
Over the course of the last three years I've read very few books,
mostly technical books by the computer, but since I've bought this
device I have read more than 70 pages of a Hebrew thriller, and a
few pages of some technical books and got the epub version of a 1500
page book I was wondering how to carry around with me...
Conclusion:
Very good buy for those of you who need the Hebrew support. Not very
expensive. No dual display. No color display - but perfect for
reading books!
What does it do with full page scans of books (jpeg images as PDF
files)? The nook displays them full screen, with no rotate, zoom or
contrast adjustment (makes reading colored ones difficult), the Kindle
3 (but not the original nor 2) has those adjustments. I have several
thousand electronics and other technical books like that.
You may also want to look at Calibre, it's an open source manager for
eBooks, which includes format conversions, etc. It's available for
Linux, Windows and Mac and supports the Kindle, nook, iPad and many
other readers. If it does not support the eVrit directly, you can
still use it to organize your library and do format conversions.
If you are looking for modern Sci-Fi, Baen books has a free
downloadable library. They have also issued free CDs of books (and in
some cases entire series) that are not available on line from them,
but you can download them via bit torrent and directly online.
For the books:
http://www.baen.com/library/
For the CDs:
http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/
Geoff.
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Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM
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