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____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Wednesday 18 Nov 2009 14:28 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz pulled this Usenet boner:
>
>> Truly Revolutionary Mashups
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>>| The Amazon Kindle, The Sony E-Reader and the
>>| iREX iliad all use Linux operating systems.
>>|
>>| I'm sure you knew that.
>>|
>>| The IREX Iliad makes its code fully available
>>| to Open Source developers, even if IREX is a
>>| little slow off the mark with their SDKs. The
>>| other two only release the bits of code that
>>| they are duty bound to do so under the GPL.
>> `----
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>> http://www.siriusit.co.uk/blogs/16-nov-2009/truly-revolutionary-mashups
>
> I saw the Sony reader in Target the other day. Big display, come-ons to get
> you into their book-reading silo. The paper-white display looked pretty
> decent. The price for the unit was awfully high, $299 IIRC.
>
> The article is correct about PDF as a reader format. Very difficult to get
> it to look right in portrait mode on the OLPC.
>
> HTML is much better, and it looks like the EPUB format is similar.
>
>> Will eBooks Kill Off The Hard-Cover Book?
>
> No. Not unless you can lend a copy of the book to your friends.
Plain text is even better cause you can mail your friend parts of
interest. That's how authors get their word out. Also, how about backup?
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~~ Best of wishes
Roy S. Schestowitz | Useless fact: There are five regular polyhedra
http://Schestowitz.com | GNU is Not UNIX | PGP-Key: 0x74572E8E
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