Re: What's inside the evrit reader?

2010-05-31 Thread Amichai Rotman
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? .::.

Re: What's inside the evrit reader?

2010-05-31 Thread Elazar Leibovich
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

Re: What's inside the evrit reader?

2010-05-31 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On May 31, 2010, at 8:47 PM, Elazar Leibovich wrote: 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. e-ink is realtivley common and cheap. Last fall a US magazine had

Re: What's inside the evrit reader?

2010-05-31 Thread Dov Grobgeld
I've read *lots* of ebooks on portable devices. I started off on my PalmIIIx, which was a bit of a pain because of the low resolution and the low contrast, continued on my Palm E2, which was great, and now I'm using FBReader on my Nokia N900, which is near perfect. One of the advantages of the

Re: What's inside the evrit reader?

2010-05-31 Thread Meir Kriheli
On Monday 31 May 2010 21:06:36 geoffrey mendelson wrote: On May 31, 2010, at 8:47 PM, Elazar Leibovich wrote: 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. e-ink

Re: What's inside the evrit reader?

2010-05-31 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On May 31, 2010, at 11:36 PM, Meir Kriheli wrote: Pixel Qi might be the answer, looks promising: http://www.pixelqi.com/ Yes it does. Now all they have to do is find someone to manufacture them. Geoff. -- geoffrey mendelson N3OWJ/4X1GM Jerusalem Israel geoffreymendel...@gmail.com