Re: Update: eVrit e-book Reader

2011-02-23 Thread Lior Kaplan
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.ilwrote: On Sun, Feb 20, 2011, Lior Kaplan wrote about Re: Update: eVrit e-book Reader: Did you get any kind of source or offer for the source as the licenses require? Kaplan I am not a lawyer and haven't paid

Re: Update: eVrit e-book Reader

2011-02-21 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011, Lior Kaplan wrote about Re: Update: eVrit e-book Reader: Did you get any kind of source or offer for the source as the licenses require? Kaplan I am not a lawyer and haven't paid attention to every little detail in the GPL, so maybe I'm asking a stupid question: does

Re: Update: eVrit e-book Reader

2011-02-21 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Feb 21, 2011, at 12:01 PM, Nadav Har'El wrote: I am not a lawyer and haven't paid attention to every little detail in the GPL, so maybe I'm asking a stupid question: does the GPL really say that you must give the source, or offer the source from your own site? What I mean is, if

Re: Update: eVrit e-book Reader

2011-02-21 Thread Omer Zak
may differ from the version actually used by the device (for example, due to security fixes). --- Omer On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 12:01 +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Sun, Feb 20, 2011, Lior Kaplan wrote about Re: Update: eVrit e-book Reader: Did you get any kind of source or offer for the source

Re: Update: eVrit e-book Reader

2011-02-21 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Feb 21, 2011, at 12:18 PM, Omer Zak wrote: It is my understanding that that someone must archive his own copy of the relevant source files and make them available to people who use the device. Is that necessary with an Android device? I'm not sure if the eVrit is one or not. Some

Re: Update: eVrit e-book Reader

2011-02-21 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:14 PM, geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 21, 2011, at 12:01 PM, Nadav Har'El wrote: What I mean is, if someone is selling a device running some unmodified version of Linux, and a couple other unmodified programs, isn't it enough for them

Re: Update: eVrit e-book Reader

2011-02-20 Thread Lior Kaplan
Did you get any kind of source or offer for the source as the licenses require? Kaplan 2011/2/17 Amichai Rotman amic...@iglu.org.il Hi all, Just wanted to share my experience with this little device... As some of you know, I asked which one should I buy: Amazon Kindle or this one. I am

Re: Update: eVrit e-book Reader

2011-02-20 Thread Elazar Leibovich
I have sent a guy in NDS a request, and he emailed the tarball they needed to release. Shalom, The source code can be found at: ftp gate.nds.com username - uboot password - 9E8asteH 2011/2/20 Lior Kaplan kaplanl...@gmail.com Did you get any kind of source or offer for the source as

Re: Update: eVrit e-book Reader

2011-02-20 Thread shimi
2011/2/20 Elazar Leibovich elaz...@gmail.com I have sent a guy in NDS a request, and he emailed the tarball they needed to release. Shalom, The source code can be found at: ftp gate.nds.com username - uboot password - 9E8asteH $ telnet gate.nds.com ftp Trying 192.118.32.6...

Update: eVrit e-book Reader

2011-02-17 Thread Amichai Rotman
Hi all, Just wanted to share my experience with this little device... As some of you know, I asked which one should I buy: Amazon Kindle or this one. I am glad I have bought this one. It's all I need! I have 130 books on the internal 1.2GB memory and I still have lots of space. I bought it so

Re: Update: eVrit e-book Reader

2011-02-17 Thread guy keren
in addition to this discussion - i found out that the nook cannot be delivered to israel neither from bn, nor from bestbuy (which sells it in the USA). i considered getting it via mustop- but then i found that online book purchases won't work using an IP address outside the USA. this is quite a

Re: Update: eVrit e-book Reader

2011-02-17 Thread Marc Volovic
Will they work using an open US-based proxy? ---MAV Marc. Volovic +972-54-467-6764 marcvolo...@me.com Sent from my iPhone On Feb 17, 2011, at 12:39, guy keren c...@actcom.co.il wrote: in addition to this discussion - i found out that the nook cannot be delivered to israel neither from bn,

Re: Update: eVrit e-book Reader

2011-02-17 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Feb 17, 2011, at 11:57 AM, Amichai Rotman wrote: Hi all, Terrible for photos / pictures. Too dark, no colors and slow. The books' covers and in-book diagrams and line art look great! User Experience: As I mentioned, I am very happy with the device. It is very light and under the

Re: Update: eVrit e-book Reader

2011-02-17 Thread Dotan Cohen
2011/2/17 Amichai Rotman amic...@iglu.org.il: Hi all, Just wanted to share my experience with this little device... As some of you know, I asked which one should I buy: Amazon Kindle or this one. I am glad I have bought this one. It's all I need! I have 130 books on the internal 1.2GB memory

Re: Update: eVrit e-book Reader

2011-02-17 Thread Stan Goodman
On Thursday 17 February 2011 11:57:38 Amichai Rotman wrote: I downloaded a sample book from the Barns Noble site (what they call a 'NookBook) and transfered it to the device directly (an .epub file) From its name, I was sure that the NookBook was specialized to pornographic literature. --

Re: Update: eVrit e-book Reader

2011-02-17 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Feb 17, 2011, at 6:36 PM, Stan Goodman wrote: On Thursday 17 February 2011 11:57:38 Amichai Rotman wrote: I downloaded a sample book from the Barns Noble site (what they call a 'NookBook) and transfered it to the device directly (an .epub file) From its name, I was sure that the

Re: Update: eVrit e-book Reader

2011-02-17 Thread Amichai Rotman
I didn't mention this because I wasn't at home when I wrote the post, but I am using Calibre with the e-vrit. The version on the Ubuntu 10.04 was too old and didn't detect the reader. I added a PPA (PM me to get the details) and upgraded it to version 0.7.44. Now it detects the reader as a bq

Re: Update: eVrit e-book Reader

2011-02-17 Thread Steve G.
Re PDF files, I can give you my experience using kindle, but it should apply equally to all readers with a 6 screen. It works if you are young and have eagle eyes, or the book is specially formatted with very large letters and small page size. Otherwise, it looks like insect dropping on the page.