Hanlin V8/LBook Reviews! - Page 2

LVD · 09-30-2006, 03:21 AM

I shall be glad to receive the partner in the Europe, I cannot sell now the device in Germany, Poland, France... The Software is not adapted for these languages (there is no translation of the menu, registration of a box, demands correction the module of a hyphenation and parsing of the text).

The price of the device for the partner at shipment from China, Kiev or Budapest depending on volume of purchases. For example at purchase of 500 devices now the price makes 265 dollars.

Unlike SONY II you can read the open electronic books and you will not have problems with national fonts.

Slava · 09-30-2006, 09:05 AM

Leonid,

AFAIK, Sony will display national fonts if they are embedded into PDF. Of cause I would prefer just to drop txt version "Понедельник начинается в Субботу" and don't mess PDFs and fonts

NatCh · 09-30-2006, 10:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LVD

Unlike SONY II you can read the open electronic books and you will not have problems with national fonts.

Do you mean OEB format?

pkbo · 09-30-2006, 11:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LVD

Unlike SONY II you can read the open electronic books and you will not have problems with national fonts.

It is very interesting how did you acheive this? Can user install a font to the lbook? The Sony Librie had Unicode support and it had no problems with cyrillic font, so I think it is too early talk about problems with Sony Reader.

pkbo · 09-30-2006, 11:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NatCh

Do you mean OEB format?

I doubt LVD meant OEB format. The following quote from LVD site:

Quote:

Supported formats of electronic books:
WOLF, HTML, TXT, (DOC, RTF, PDF, Excel, PPT)
after conversion in WOLF- file

NatCh · 10-01-2006, 02:05 PM

The reason I asked that is that the Sony Reader will handle RTF, TXT, PDF.... so I'm trying to figure out what he means when he says the Sony Reader won't "read the open electronic books"

pkbo · 10-01-2006, 10:34 PM

I may guess he means that if someone will try to read on Sony Reader for example TXT file with encoding different from US ascii in Russian Greek or whotever other language he will fail because of problems with national fonts and lbook dosn't have such problems.

NatCh · 10-02-2006, 10:54 AM

Yah, that would make sense, we don't really know yet just what unicode it will and won't handle, but it's looking like it may not handle the characters that are particularly different from english.

LVD · 10-10-2006, 04:15 AM

http://files.ebook.googlepages.com/jinkevssonyreader

lBook eReader vs Sony 500

LVD · 10-18-2006, 02:08 PM

Some words about the project lBook eReader V8:

1. An example of a usual TXT-file. Pay attention to formatting of the lines, a new proportional font, an automatic hyphenation (a correctness of hyphenation of English words I do not guarantee).

2. Two variants of the menu.

3. The algorithm of scanning the screen for reduction of artefacts is changed.

sjaaks V8 · 10-19-2006, 03:19 PM

The Hanlin V8 is a lovely little machine. I bought it in august 2006 directly from Jinke in China. It is the Russian English model. You can have also Chinese English. From TaKir I know that it is different from the Lbook because of the software they make for it in Russia. After a while it was clear for me how to bring, the free e-books to this reader. Its easy after a time of troubleshooting. All over the internet you can find free e-books to read. And in my experience all types of fonts the V8 will accept. The only thing I don't like is de grey screen. There must always be light from another source.
To put things in perspective I will upload some pictures with different Fonts. Made in wordpad. The 0349.jpg picture is the Arial narrow font.

edit. typos.

NatCh · 10-19-2006, 03:32 PM

Is that "The Hunger Artist," sjaaks V8?

Edit: Nevermind, I see the title now.

sjaaks V8 · 10-20-2006, 03:56 AM

On another thread I have posted pictures of the Hanlin V8. Not all of them are noteworthy. But some you will see here again.

edit. Picture added. Franz Kafka, Rosetta.
Letter to my Father, in Russian, Greek and German.

edit. Pic. less kB.

sjaaks V8 · 10-21-2006, 11:11 AM

Reading with or without a border. I don't know.
Scale the hardware down, yes.

edit. Pic. less kB.

sjaaks V8 · 10-22-2006, 04:40 PM

Scale down the hardware.

I wanted to make the Hanlin V8 look small in my hand. The opposite happened.
(Working the first time with GIMP.)

edit. Pic.size less kB.

10-01-2006, 10:34 PM	#22
pkbo Addict Posts: 251 Karma: 214890 Join Date: Sep 2006 Device: none	I may guess he means that if someone will try to read on Sony Reader for example TXT file with encoding different from US ascii in Russian Greek or whotever other language he will fail because of problems with national fonts and lbook dosn't have such problems. Last edited by pkbo; 10-02-2006 at 12:01 AM.

10-18-2006, 02:08 PM	#25
LVD Connoisseur Posts: 64 Karma: 279 Join Date: Jun 2006	Some words about the project lBook eReader V8: 1. An example of a usual TXT-file. Pay attention to formatting of the lines, a new proportional font, an automatic hyphenation (a correctness of hyphenation of English words I do not guarantee). 2. Two variants of the menu. 3. The algorithm of scanning the screen for reduction of artefacts is changed. Attached Thumbnails Last edited by LVD; 10-18-2006 at 02:14 PM.

10-19-2006, 03:19 PM	#26
sjaaks V8 Enthusiast Posts: 40 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Leeuwarden Netherlands Device: Hanlin V8	The Hanlin V8 is a lovely little machine. I bought it in august 2006 directly from Jinke in China. It is the Russian English model. You can have also Chinese English. From TaKir I know that it is different from the Lbook because of the software they make for it in Russia. After a while it was clear for me how to bring, the free e-books to this reader. Its easy after a time of troubleshooting. All over the internet you can find free e-books to read. And in my experience all types of fonts the V8 will accept. The only thing I don't like is de grey screen. There must always be light from another source. To put things in perspective I will upload some pictures with different Fonts. Made in wordpad. The 0349.jpg picture is the Arial narrow font. edit. typos. Attached Thumbnails Last edited by sjaaks V8; 10-21-2006 at 07:28 AM.

10-20-2006, 03:56 AM	#28
sjaaks V8 Enthusiast Posts: 40 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Leeuwarden Netherlands Device: Hanlin V8	On another thread I have posted pictures of the Hanlin V8. Not all of them are noteworthy. But some you will see here again. edit. Picture added. Franz Kafka, Rosetta. Letter to my Father, in Russian, Greek and German. edit. Pic. less kB. Attached Thumbnails Last edited by sjaaks V8; 10-23-2006 at 02:02 PM.

10-21-2006, 11:11 AM	#29
sjaaks V8 Enthusiast Posts: 40 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Leeuwarden Netherlands Device: Hanlin V8	Reading with or without a border. I don't know. Scale the hardware down, yes. edit. Pic. less kB. Attached Thumbnails Last edited by sjaaks V8; 10-23-2006 at 01:27 PM.

09-30-2006, 03:21 AM	#16
LVD Connoisseur Posts: 64 Karma: 279 Join Date: Jun 2006	I shall be glad to receive the partner in the Europe, I cannot sell now the device in Germany, Poland, France... The Software is not adapted for these languages (there is no translation of the menu, registration of a box, demands correction the module of a hyphenation and parsing of the text). The price of the device for the partner at shipment from China, Kiev or Budapest depending on volume of purchases. For example at purchase of 500 devices now the price makes 265 dollars. Unlike SONY II you can read the open electronic books and you will not have problems with national fonts.

09-30-2006, 09:05 AM	#17
Slava Addict Posts: 285 Karma: 129 Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: New England Device: PRS-500 · iPad · K3	Leonid, AFAIK, Sony will display national fonts if they are embedded into PDF. Of cause I would prefer just to drop txt version "Понедельник начинается в Субботу" and don't mess PDFs and fonts

10-01-2006, 02:05 PM	#21
NatCh Gizmologist Posts: 11,615 Karma: 929550 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Republic of Texas Embassy at Jackson, TN Device: Pocketbook Touch HD3	The reason I asked that is that the Sony Reader will handle RTF, TXT, PDF.... so I'm trying to figure out what he means when he says the Sony Reader won't "read the open electronic books"

10-02-2006, 10:54 AM	#23
NatCh Gizmologist Posts: 11,615 Karma: 929550 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Republic of Texas Embassy at Jackson, TN Device: Pocketbook Touch HD3	Yah, that would make sense, we don't really know yet just what unicode it will and won't handle, but it's looking like it may not handle the characters that are particularly different from english.

10-10-2006, 04:15 AM	#24
LVD Connoisseur Posts: 64 Karma: 279 Join Date: Jun 2006	http://files.ebook.googlepages.com/jinkevssonyreader lBook eReader vs Sony 500

10-19-2006, 03:32 PM	#27
NatCh Gizmologist Posts: 11,615 Karma: 929550 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Republic of Texas Embassy at Jackson, TN Device: Pocketbook Touch HD3	Is that "The Hunger Artist," sjaaks V8? Edit: Nevermind, I see the title now.

10-22-2006, 04:40 PM	#30
sjaaks V8 Enthusiast Posts: 40 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Leeuwarden Netherlands Device: Hanlin V8	Scale down the hardware. I wanted to make the Hanlin V8 look small in my hand. The opposite happened. (Working the first time with GIMP.) edit. Pic.size less kB. Attached Thumbnails Last edited by sjaaks V8; 10-23-2006 at 01:36 PM.

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