Re: Hebrew fonts on digital readers

2011-07-04 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jul 4, 2011, at 11:54 AM, Nitzan Brumer wrote: Buying the kindle: 139 $ Shipping to Israel: 40$ (no, you can not change that, fedex is mandatory) Fedex Israel fees: 150 NIS (they charge the vat, handling, moving, storage or whatever) So, at the end buying a kindle costs around 760 Nis

Re: Hebrew fonts on digital readers

2011-07-04 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jul 4, 2011, at 11:02 AM, Stan Goodman wrote: 900 NIS? Double the price of a Kindle. If the cottage-cheese folks could be interested in this, the price would surely come down. Where exactly can I get a Kindle with a full touch screen for 450 NIS? Ok, the nook version 2 has one and is o

Re: Hebrew fonts on digital readers

2011-07-04 Thread Nitzan Brumer
Buying the kindle: 139 $ Shipping to Israel: 40$ (no, you can not change that, fedex is mandatory) Fedex Israel fees: 150 NIS (they charge the vat, handling, moving, storage or whatever) So, at the end buying a kindle costs around 760 Nis which is still 140NIS cheaper than the eVrit, but far from

Re: Hebrew fonts on digital readers

2011-07-04 Thread Stan Goodman
On 07/04/2011 04:31 AM, Steve G. wrote: FWIW, this is not the same discussion as far as I am concerned. The previous discussion was about what reader is best for Hebrew book. This one is about how to read Hebrew on a Kindle 2. I am not going to buy eVrit, nor any book with DRM on it, if I can

Re: Hebrew fonts on digital readers

2011-07-03 Thread Steve G.
FWIW, this is not the same discussion as far as I am concerned. The previous discussion was about what reader is best for Hebrew book. This one is about how to read Hebrew on a Kindle 2. I am not going to buy eVrit, nor any book with DRM on it, if I can help it. On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 11:01 PM,

Re: Hebrew fonts on digital readers

2011-06-25 Thread geoffrey mendelson
Didn't we this discussion a couple of months ago? From what I can see nothing has changed. I think in the end the person asking bought an eVrit, which is really a PanDigital Memo with Hebrew support and Steimatzky DRM built in. Are they still 900 NIS? Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ

Re: Hebrew fonts on digital readers

2011-06-25 Thread Steve G.
I am using the Kindle 2, but it looks like this is doable. Could you be more specific on doing it? I prefer to just install the font (which one do I use for Hebrew?) and not a web server. Do I have to use the python update script, or is it possible to copy a few file to my Kindle? It is not that

Re: Hebrew fonts on digital readers

2011-06-25 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
On Sat, 25 Jun 2011, Steve G. wrote: I tried converting a text document containing Hebrew and Spanish to the Kindle format. The Spanish was readable, but the Hebrew was junk. Although I can read html in Hebrew on the Kindle, it does not let me read html documents that are stored locally. I con

Re: Hebrew fonts on digital readers

2011-06-25 Thread Omer Zak
I am using the eMachines eM350 netbook for this purpose. Except for short battery life (3 hours or so), it does the job for me. Office Depot sells those netbooks for 1300NIS, which is a bit more expensive than digital readers (typically 800-1200NIS), but it is a general purpose computer. And I wa

Hebrew fonts on digital readers

2011-06-25 Thread Steve G.
I tried converting a text document containing Hebrew and Spanish to the Kindle format. The Spanish was readable, but the Hebrew was junk. Although I can read html in Hebrew on the Kindle, it does not let me read html documents that are stored locally. I contacted Amazon, and was informed that Hebre