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Kindle battery life extended; PDF support added
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| Another firmware change provides a PDF reader,
| allowing the reader to display files in the popular
| format. This means such files can be transferred
| directly to a Kindle via USB.
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http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=29591&Itemid=53
Kindle gains longer battery life, PDF support
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| Amazon.com announced two enhancements to its Linux-
| based Kindle e-book reader, offering 85 percent
| more battery life, as well as a native PDF reader.
| The Kindle can now last seven days even with
| wireless turned on, claims Amazon, which is
| offering the enhancements to current users via
| firmware upgrades.
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http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Amazon-Kindle-upgrade/?kc=rss
Recent:
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
OpenInkpot: free software for e-book readers
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| Back in July, Jonathan Corbet lamented that
| Amazon was making the Kindle an unattractive
| hacking target for Linux users. The comments
| to his article suggested having a closer look
| at OpenInkpot, a fairly new Linux distribution
| for e-book readers. This much in advance: It
| doesn't run on the Kindle. Not yet, anyway.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/354714/
Will eBooks Kill Off The Hard-Cover Book?
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| Arnaud Nourry, CEO of French publishing group Hachette Livre told the
| Financial Times that pressure from Googleâs (GOOG) digital library project
| and from the move by Amazon (AMZN), Barnes & Noble (BKS) and others into
| electronic books is forcing publishers to consider drastic price cuts. He
| thinks one result could be the death of hardback books.
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http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2009/08/31/will-ebooks-kill-off-the-hard-cover-book/
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