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Ebook Readers discussed on Marketplace
Caught this on National Public Radio (NPR) Monday night. Here's the link to a page containing text and the audio, in case you missed it.
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Marketplace is a daily radio program on NPR that discusses topics of economic interest. |
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04-15-2009, 10:52 PM | #2 |
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I'm sure once the screensize (and resolution) increases with about 25-33% for the current price we'll see a lot more people finding interest in these devices!
Then newspapers and pdf files could be read comfortably. |
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I was downloading these and that got me thinking. Where are the good podcasts in Britain? Australia? Canada? Surely they allow podcasts to cross borders. I mean, there’s no DRM on them. I don’t know how copyrights work with podcasts though. |
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Pertinent web sites: NPR--> http://www.npr.org/ PRI --> http://www.pri.org/ American Public Media --> http://americanpublicmedia.publicradio.org/ And Wikipedia has fairly comprehensive articles about all three. |
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04-16-2009, 05:15 PM | #6 |
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Thank you for the clarification (I guess).
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1024x720 is a good resolution to begin with...
It also displays webpages pretty fine in landscape mode! Unlike the netbooks equipped with 1024x600 screens. I still think they lack vertical resolution, partly due to large buttons, menu bars and the status bar on the bottom. Unfortunately e-ink isn't used for watching HD movies, otherwise the first resolution to think about is 720p (=1280x720). Imagine if E-ink could display HD movies in B&W? Last edited by ProDigit; 04-20-2009 at 06:54 PM. |
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I’ve been reading about the one with the roll up screen (the name escapes me). That would be the one for me assuming that it actually works and can render some common format, like secure Mobi. Ah yes, that right Readius discussed here I use my Touch cell phone when I’m not at home now, but the screen is pretty tiny and my eyes get tired easily. Last edited by wodin; 04-20-2009 at 07:15 PM. Reason: Found the thread |
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