Amazon E Ink reader? - Page 5

lordvetinari2 · 09-13-2006, 03:43 AM

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Originally Posted by bingle

Either that, or they just have very good speculative manual writers ;-)

It doesn't cost that much to make changes to a manual, you know. A manual might look more or less ready for printing, and still undergo a month of daily (mostly stupid) changes. It depends how fine they thread (or at least that's the idiom in Spanish!), and how much money they got to burn.

Ken Stuart · 09-13-2006, 07:28 PM

There was never anything that ugly on Star Trek. Here are some "real" PADDs:

Earlier ones:

RWood · 11-22-2006, 04:17 PM

Speaking of DRM content and new machines, MicroSoft is introducing a new player this year that is not compatible with their old "Plays For Sure" format. Thus all the people who bought DRM music must now buy it again.

Edit: Mobi may well still be available for other readers to implement. Amazon is in the business of selling content, the more readers that can use Mobi, the more content they can sell. It will be a matter of implementing uniform DRM restrictions more than anything else. Apple on the other hand is in the hardware business and maintains iTunes as a service and a selling point for the iPod, it is not their main line business.

tcv · 11-23-2006, 12:25 AM

MS is abandoning PlaysForSure. Well, I don't know that they have said that, but there is no PFS on the new Zune and DRM content wrapped in it won't run on the Zune. So, it seems like its days are numbered.

phuata · 11-23-2006, 03:04 AM

I really don't care how it looks, so long as it works, is relatively inexpensive, and is available for purchase in Canada. Looking at the manual (thanks for posting the link to it), it looks like the Kindle allows for text searching, which is a feature I was wishing for in the Sony Reader. In two different places, it lists file types it will open, and the lists are not the same. So long as it opens .pdf, .rtf and .txt, Kindle is looking like one of my preferred choices so far.

kahm · 11-29-2006, 10:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by phuata

I really don't care how it looks, so long as it works, is relatively inexpensive, and is available for purchase in Canada. Looking at the manual (thanks for posting the link to it), it looks like the Kindle allows for text searching, which is a feature I was wishing for in the Sony Reader. In two different places, it lists file types it will open, and the lists are not the same. So long as it opens .pdf, .rtf and .txt, Kindle is looking like one of my preferred choices so far.

I agree. As long as it's cheap and I can actually buy it (I'm in Canada too), then it can look like anything it wants (short of eating babies and spitting pea soup)

09-13-2006, 07:28 PM	#62
Ken Stuart The Knight Who Says Nook! Posts: 98 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: California Device: Nook Color ; dead Clie NR70 ; living Rocket REB1100 ; QY70 (pictured)	There was never anything that ugly on Star Trek. Here are some "real" PADDs: Earlier ones: Last edited by Ken Stuart; 09-13-2006 at 07:36 PM.

11-22-2006, 04:17 PM	#63
RWood Technogeezer Posts: 7,233 Karma: 1601464 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Virginia, USA Device: Sony PRS-500	Speaking of DRM content and new machines, MicroSoft is introducing a new player this year that is not compatible with their old "Plays For Sure" format. Thus all the people who bought DRM music must now buy it again. Edit: Mobi may well still be available for other readers to implement. Amazon is in the business of selling content, the more readers that can use Mobi, the more content they can sell. It will be a matter of implementing uniform DRM restrictions more than anything else. Apple on the other hand is in the hardware business and maintains iTunes as a service and a selling point for the iPod, it is not their main line business. Last edited by RWood; 11-22-2006 at 04:25 PM. Reason: Additional thought about Amazon

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11-23-2006, 12:25 AM	#64
tcv Addict Posts: 330 Karma: 596 Join Date: Oct 2006	MS is abandoning PlaysForSure. Well, I don't know that they have said that, but there is no PFS on the new Zune and DRM content wrapped in it won't run on the Zune. So, it seems like its days are numbered.

11-23-2006, 03:04 AM	#65
phuata Member Posts: 24 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2006	I really don't care how it looks, so long as it works, is relatively inexpensive, and is available for purchase in Canada. Looking at the manual (thanks for posting the link to it), it looks like the Kindle allows for text searching, which is a feature I was wishing for in the Sony Reader. In two different places, it lists file types it will open, and the lists are not the same. So long as it opens .pdf, .rtf and .txt, Kindle is looking like one of my preferred choices so far.