On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:55:27 +0000 (GMT), Robert Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi, > my holiday gift this year was a Sony PRS-505 Reader. > > http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId=-1&categoryId=16184 > This is not as off-topic as it seems, as well as books these work well with > PDF's and the ePaper display uses no power except when it changes. No more > printing a couple of pages of a datasheet to use at the bench, only to bin > them later. > Unfortunatly they don't sell then outside North America (copyright issues > with the books apparently) but they do work in Europe , contary to what the > store attendants tried to tell me! It will play MP3's while you read too! > Oh crap, there goes February's food budget..... Being a card-carrying Sony hater (We give you le$$ for more, lock you into proprietary formats and then sue your balls off), I did some quick looking and found this page: http://www.eink.com/products/customers_app.html This is a list of products that use the eInk electronic paper display. I'm just going goo-goo for that iRex iLiad. Reads and writes, large screen, WiFi and Ethernet and compatible with MobiPocket formatted eBooks. MobiPocket books for the Palm have become somewhat of a standard. I'm also enchanted with the Bookeen open source reader with embedded Linux. If it only had WiFi. If you're unfortunate enough to live in a large city, you might want to take a look at the Amazon Kindle. Its most interesting feature is built-in free EVDO connectivity. ----------- Robert, How does that gadget handle graphics and photos? The eInk site says that the display only does 4 levels of greyscale. My main interest in a reader is to be able to carry around my reference library so the ability to display both line art and greyscale is important. John -- John De Armond See my website for my current email address http://www.neon-john.com http://www.johndearmond.com <-- best little blog on the net! Tellico Plains, Occupied TN Save a tree, kill a beaver _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
