Yama,
I had the same experience with the mouse buttons when using the XO in
ebook mode. You'd squeeze the XO just a bit too much and your book
would start paging away. When I wrote View Slides and Read Etexts I
took some pains to make sure they were usable in ebook mode. Recently
I've found that I don't use ebook mode anymore. I just set up the XO
in laptop mode and use the keyboard. I actually like this much better
than ebook mode, because I can read while eating lunch, something I
can't do easily in ebook mode (or with a real book either).
I'll take an XO over a Kindle any day.
James Simmons
> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:26:24 +0545
> From: Yama Ploskonka <yamap...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Marketing] [IAEP] AP: Schools shun Kindle, saying blind
> can't use it
> To: Gary C Martin <g...@garycmartin.com>
> Cc: Sugar Labs Marketing <marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org>, Luke Faraone
> <l...@faraone.cc>, iaep <i...@lists.sugarlabs.org>
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> NN's one-page computer ("XO 3")is the right concept for distributing a "book
> like" experience, I believe, and if the XO were not burdened by a multilayer
> software system, and the mouse buttons that get activated when pressed down
> in e-book mode, the XO 1 itself could run circles around the Kindle.
>
> As it is we could still do something, but I see other priorities, like
> lowering the price of the XO 1.
> Kindle-like performance ain't it, but then that's my opinion
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