Has anyone managed to browse the Internet with an EBW-1150?

I'm thinking this would not be completely crazy. When I click a hyperlink in a document that I read on the device, the device tries to connect to the Internet and the "Initiating connection... Dialing 1-858xxxxxxx" message is displayed." The internal modem wants to connect, and then ""The connection to the eBook Network was not successful. No dialtone. Connect a phone like to your eBook and try again"

If i plug the device in the USB port, when I click a link I get the message "Communicating with eBook Network" but the page is never displayed.

Part of the difficulty is that the device reads IMP files, while most of the internet is html. I would very much like to be able to browse the internet on this device, so if anyone has managed to hack it for this purpose I'm all ears.

I haven't done it, but I can think of a theoretical approach. As far as I know, there's no way to change the software on the reader itself, but you could make a proxy on the computer you connect to that would catch the network request and figure out what to do with it. The Librarian software does this now and redirects the bookshelf access to your local bookshelf, rather than the one at eBookWise, so it seems at least possible that you could catch the hyperlink network calls the same way.

I have noticed that in the settings page of the device one has the option of both HTTP proxy and proxy for USB. In both cases, you can specify the http proxy address and the http proxy port. But I have no idea how to go from here.

Not that proxy -- that would be for if you have a proxy server to get through a firewall, e.g. at a business or school. The idea is similar, though.

So I have to transform my computer into a proxy server for the ebook, this is what are you saying? If yes, where can I find some reliable information on how to do that?

Try writing to the author of the eBookwise Librarian software. There are some links from the eBookwise site.

Thanks for the tip

Yes you can browse the internet with an EBW1150. The only thing is that the internal browser is not very powerful and will not correctly render new HTML pages. Simple HTML is fine for this device.

I tried that when I was trying to write a Java program to upload local ebooks to my device. As a proof of concept I remember generating a special html page that enabled web surfing. The project then died because of my lack of java knowledge and time.

This is how it worked: the device tries to connect to ebooktechnologies server and asks for a file which is a list of books. You change your OS "hosts" file so that that URL resolves to another IP. Breeno has done that and changed it to point to 127.0.01 (localhost) so that you can upload local content.
The second part is to instead of giving the list of books file, give it a specific file with a link to the internet so that you can start browsing. I think you cannot directly type an URL.
I still have the java files if you are interested in that small proof of concept.
Hope this helps a little...
Regards!