[Web4lib] Amazon's Kindle e-book reader

[S Perkins]

You might look at the NOKIA N770, N800, and N810 internet tablet devices,
touch screens, 800x400 resolution 4 in screens, play music, internet radio,
WiFi, USB, etc.  The N770 is the oldest available for ~$120, the N800 is
~$200, and the N810 just came out for ~$450.  The latter two have a Camera.
All play video and other multimedia.  The N800 has 16GB of storage capacity
and the N810 has 8GB of storage.  All run a version of Linux, with the N800
and N810 running OS2008 and the N770 OS2007 from MAEMO.  Can run Skype or
GIZMO for telephone use.  TheN810 has integrated GPS and a keyboard.  The
N800 and N770 have a virtual keyboard and can add on GPS.

Web page for the N810: http://www.nseries.com/index.html#l=products,n810

Also can run PalmOS and programs through the Garnet VM. Readers for popular
file formats.

Regards,

Steven C. Perkins


On 11/27/07, Richard Wiggins <richard.wiggins at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So every time another Web4liber pipes up about the Amazon Kindle, Google
> Gmail pipes up with this ad:
>
>    The Reader. From Sony(R) - Sonystyle.com - Ultimate Digital Reading
> Experience on an impressive paper-like display
>
> So it seems promising -- seems to be the same sort of electronic ink
> technology that Kindle uses.  And it supports PDF and image formats and
> non-DRMed audio formats.
>
> And it uses, sigh and sigh, the Memory Stick.  I thought Sony had admitted
> the error of their ways when they came out with a D-SLR that, believe it
> or
> not, both has Memory Stick and Compact Flash slots.
>
> Sony is a company I love to hate.  I've owned a boatload of their
> camcorders, especially, but also digicams and music players and whatever.
> There was no reason for Sony to invent Memory Stick, at the point in
> history
> when they chose to do so.  Sony has some of the smartest engineers on
> Earth
> but the sometimes engineer some silly stuff.
>
> /rich
>
> On Nov 27, 2007 2:34 PM, Dan Lester <dan at riverofdata.com> wrote:
>
> > Tuesday, November 27, 2007, 11:39:54 AM, you wrote:
> >
> > > If your files are in the following formats, you can just transfer them
> > > directly: .azw, .txt, .mobi, .prc, .mp3, or .aa.
> >
> > > For all other formats (ex. .doc, HTML, .jpg, .gif, .bmp), you have to
> > > email them to Amazon for conversion.
> >
> > That would seem to be a fatal flaw.  If the kindle is as easy to read
> > as claimed (and thus much better than any laptop I've ever seen,
> > including the one I live on), it would seem to be ideal for many of
> > the applications in business for which one wouldn't need a full blown
> > laptop.
> >
> > However, I can't see a business or a library sending them internal
> > docs in any of the formats that require conversion.
> >
> > Most important, they're trying to limit you to reading THEIR BOOKS
> > (which even Apple doesn't require with an iPod) except perhaps for some
> > ebooks you might have downloaded from Project Gutenberg or someone
> > else that does pure text documents.
> >
> > --
> > Best regards,
> >  Dan                            mailto:dan at riverofdata.com
> >
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