10-11-2012, 05:16 AM | #46 |
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Actually, it does. Technically speaking, the txtr beagle uses the same technology as a digital picture frame. And since it cannot display text files, each page needs to be converted to an image and images take up much more space than text.
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But then again maybe it's using bmp's or something I think the PSP just used png or jpg files. I guess this would mean fonts or formatting options on the reader are also unavailable. |
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10-11-2012, 06:07 AM | #48 | |
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I hope they didn't do it that way, but we won't know until it's out I guess? Another possibility would be that they made it smarter than it need be, for example even an image viewer could allow changing font size, if the smartphone created prerendered versions of several font sizes, stored them all on the reader, and the reader had a concept of how to link reading progress between the differently sized versions. It would probably tenfold the storage capacity required per book, but it could be made to work. Question is how much thought the developers of this thing put in it and which design descisions they made. |
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10-11-2012, 06:18 AM | #49 |
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Nice idea, but it's about as applicable to me as a "steak of the month club" would be to a vegetarian.
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10-11-2012, 07:09 AM | #50 | |
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I was thinking it would be a rather dumb device that just serves pre-formatted images without compression/decompression. So, unless they use a very complicated format (I don't know how images are served to the e-ink screen) and weird memory allocation I've high hopes |
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10-11-2012, 08:49 AM | #51 | |
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So suppose you can get your own app to talk to it (what little of it there is) through the bluetooth interface. What then? Display your own custom pages? To what end? Use it as a picture frame? Something designed for that would suit you better, and probably be cheaper. |
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10-11-2012, 09:07 AM | #52 |
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10-11-2012, 09:16 AM | #53 |
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My thoughts....
Looks like a great "library book". The libraries have the books loaded on with their code and check them out to their readers. The libraries don't have to worry about the books being stolen because it is read only. It's cheap enough to buy this with the books instead of the hard back books. That is, if this reader actually arrives at $13 or so dollars. |
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Saying this is $13 is like saying the iPhone is $0.
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10-11-2012, 10:33 AM | #56 |
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Well, I am still excited about this--always applauding innovators to add new ways of getting and enjoying books.
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10-11-2012, 10:52 AM | #57 |
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Would you have to happen a link to said report, or at least a document where something similar is stated? All I have seen are the price quotes, witout mentioning of caveats. I am happy to believe the company put on a spin, but getting some more info would be useful to confirm these statements. |
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And as the transfer shall be done via BT, all some skilled people would need to do is sniffing. |
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10-11-2012, 01:17 PM | #59 | |
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It's in the comments to the originally cited article: http://www.the-digital-reader.com/20...uros/#comments Cited there is a german report that highlights all the hidden gotchas: http://www.lesen.net/ereader/txtr-be...ezeichen-5446/ |
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So, the additional and hidden costs seem rather a MR fabrication than based on facts. |
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