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Originally Posted by Avenarius
As far as I know, there's no way while reading epubs on a stock NC to hide the status bar at the bottom of the screen and the book information displayed at the top. This might be a minor issue for some, but I find it annoying. I think if an ereader is going to simulate a book, then there should be nothing on the screen except the actual text and maybe the page number.
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Every paper (fiction) book I have has a status bar at the bottom with the page number and at the top with author and book title.
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What is a "universal" ereader?
IMO there is no such thing. They all have strengths & weaknesses. Not one can read all ebook formats. The best I've seen in that regard is the Hanlin family (i.e. Hanlin, iBook, lBook, Bebook, EZ Reader) with OpeninkPot firmware. Even it can not read DRMed formats of any kind.
I really like my EZ Reader with OpeninkPot & would love having that reading capability on the NC. But I have found my EZ Reader seems to stay on the self since I got the NC & have it rooted. It gives me more options for other non book-reading tasks. It is much more than a good reader.
Maybe someday there will be such a thing as a Universal Ereader but with world wide competition I doubt it. Everyone wants you (us) to only buy their ebooks so they use their own formats, creating the tower of ebabble.
Fortunately there are many helpful & curious folks that venture into the dangerous world of rooting and help the rest of us get there. They probably get more fun out of that than they do reading books. They make it easier for us to read books.
BTW I currently have a NC, EZ Reader, Cybook, and Kindle and I had a Sony reader but sold it. I also read on my Palm PDA and my Droid phone as well as my computer & the occasional paper book. I guess that tends to make me a 'universal reader'.
