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More E Ink from China: STAReBOOK STK-101 e-reader
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Until there is A4/Letter sized Reader under $400, I'm not interested
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Okay, now I'm confused, I thought letter sized was A5? No? Just trying to get it right for myself, you see.
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Will it have a touch screen? What types of formats does it read natively?
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Sweet!
Now if I only knew what an STK file was, and how to make one, I wouldn't now be living in terror that Sony won't get the Reader here in time and I'll have to buy this one for my wife instead... Sounds like a removable battery? A useful feature for my wife. She's one of those people around whom batteries have shorter than expected lives for some not well understood reason. I just call her "Battery Vampire". Less than six months and I've already had to replace both BT50's for her Motorola A1200... my single BT50 is still going strong in my A1200 after seven months. |
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![]() The rest of the world uses A4 paper for the same uses as an American uses letter sized paper. A5 is almost the same as an "Executive Notebook" page. Measurements in English units: A5 5.83 8.26 A4 8.26 11.69 |
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but it is YOUR paper that is being measured in strange medieval units (12 inches make 1 foot, 3 feet makes 1yard and so on...) the rest of world has moved to sensible decadic units looooong time ago. So proper dimensions are: A4 is 210x297 mm Letter is 216x279 mm ;-) |
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Why do all the hardware reader companies have to come out with their own format. Just standardize already!
Also, looking at it, what does this have over the Sony Reader? Seems less for more money. Also a single button on the bottom right? Ergonomics? (not that the sony is great in that regard.) |
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![]() You left out the truly superior Texas measurements such as: yonder, a piece, a ways, a hunk, etc. ![]() |
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Umm, forgive me for being picky, but I fail to see anything better, or for that matter, worse, between:
A5 is 5.83 x 8.26 inches A4 is 8.26 x 11.69 inches and A4 is 210 x 297 mm Letter is 216 x 279 mm Now, if A4 was 200x300 mm, there might be something to crow about! And, yes, I do know that the ISO paper sizes are metric with the aspect ratio based on the square root of 2 so that each sheet is exactly half the size of the previous one and that the actual area of the paper has a nice, round metric value. I just love to argu...um...er...debate issues! ![]() Last edited by Bandito; 10-13-2006 at 05:06 PM. |
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Is there any actual advantage to it aside from being able to fold an A4 in half to reliably simulate two A5's? That's all just crazy talk. ![]() |
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