The main trick about the e-books that everyone seems to miss, is the e-ink technology. From my own experience, the e-reader's screen is much more comfortable to the eyes.
2010/5/31 Amichai Rotman <amic...@iglu.org.il>: > How about the Nokia N770 Internet Tablet + FBReader as an e-book reader? > It runs Linux and is very comfortable, although it's a smaller LCD screen... > FBReader has Hebrew support, but I wonder how do I get Hebrew e-books to use > on it....? > > .:====================================================:. > > Amichai Rotman > > Registered Linux User#: 201192 [http://counter.li.org/] > Registered Ubuntu User #12851 [http://ubuntucounter.geekosophical.net] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > .:====================================================:. > > > On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 18:38, sammy ominsky <s...@avoidant.org> wrote: >> >> On 30/05/2010, at 16:54, geoffrey mendelson wrote: >> >> > As a disabled person, I really like the idea that a library can rent >> > number of digital copies of books, and lend them out over the internet with >> > DRM set to self destruct in 2 weeks. That way someone can check them out >> > and >> > not bother to return them, at the end of two weeks, they can lend them out >> > again. >> >> This is an excellent idea. I wonder why nobody's doing it? >> >> >> > That's why I used a frowny. I expect they will bomb and Steimatsky will >> > be selling them on close out to get rid of them. They will definately lower >> > the price to get people to buy their overpriced books. >> >> At which point the frowny face becomes a smiley. The fact that this >> device HAS DRM doesn't mean it *REQUIRES* DRM. I have many many ebooks, and >> a dedicated reader on clearance that reads the books I already have or may >> get in the future by channels other than the official one, would be a >> wonderful thing! Currently I read ebooks on my iPhone with Stanza, and it's >> extremely usable, but not ideal. A trade- or regular paperback sized eink >> reader would be perfect. >> >> >> >> > Nook... thing that will be missing is Hebrew and I'm sure someone will >> > figure out how to include it. >> >> It's running Android, and has already been rooted, so I suspect Hebrew's >> no problem. >> >> >> > As for libraries, Israel suffers because Andrew Carnegie was neither a >> > Jew nor a zionist, though only a librarian from the US is likely to >> > understand the comment. >> >> Or Enoch Pratt in Maryland :) >> >> --sambo >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-il mailing list >> Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il >> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > > _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il