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Originally Posted by DaleDe
The open format needs to be epub to keep with what is happening. It is opensource and deals with ebook issues. None of the ones above meet the needs well. However there are those folks who need to view documents without conversion and conversion is not adequate on some PDFs.
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I don't care what the open format is. It should allow me to view books I have and zoom in if I want and possibly intelligently re-layout the flow text.
If we want some candy, it should allow user annotations preferably tied to a certain place to a text. I don't care if it is provided by the reader only, and stored separately from the original document.
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Originally Posted by DaleDe
DRM is likely a fact of life. As readers we don't need it but we will never get publishers convinced. They are even more paranoid than the music industry if you can believe that.
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Unfortunately. But I could live with that if every publisher made their books available as an ebook as well, not later than the time of making the paper book available, and preferably at a cheap (i.e. half or lower) price.
And of course it must not tie me to a single device and must not report personal or sensitive information to the internet.
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Originally Posted by DaleDe
The eb1150 that started this thread has a good feel to it, but you do need a scroll wheel of some sort if you don't have a touch screen. People are unlikely to buy two readers so the paperback one needs to handle the full size documents from time to time (using landscape and 2 page modes).
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Agree.
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Originally Posted by DaleDe
With good font choices 200 bpi is probably plenty good but 300 is better but likely very expensive.
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Yes, but I need the 300dpi for small characters in figures (this is for the purpose of IT books having diagrams as images with small characters in them).
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Originally Posted by DaleDe
There has to be a limit to the cost of this thing somewhere.
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As long as it alleviates the need of buying new bookshelves, I think we are well within the cost margin.
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Originally Posted by DaleDe
4 gray scale doesn't really cut it for images unless there is good dithering to emulate 16 (high res helps here). Again the model for this thread is a 16 gray scale device.
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I don't have personal experience for this, but I tend to agree.
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Originally Posted by DaleDe
No need for mp3. I certainly don't want to manage two complete sets of playlists, music loads, etc. and I am not going to take a reader jogging.
Front, side, back, light: whatever works.
Dale
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Agree.
Robert