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elewton · 03-25-2008, 11:23 AM

I scanned the last couple of months of posts and no subjects jumped out at me. Hope I'm not posting a dupe.

If one is completely uninterested in the online services (my college and google give me all the PDFs and HTML I'll ever want to read), what is the eBook that most resembles a little computer with a cool screen?

It would have to act as a USB master, so one can use WiFi, Bluetooth and IR dongles, and their associated keyboards.

There seems to be a lot of work going on in the 505 forum, but Sony is not famous for being hack-friendly.

In short, is there anything that allows you access to the root prompt and has compiling tool available.

Sorry if this is demanding. I just found out about these recently and am unused to proprietary devices!

03-25-2008, 11:23 AM	#1
elewton Member Posts: 19 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2008 Device: Hanlin V3	Most hackable e-Ink device? I scanned the last couple of months of posts and no subjects jumped out at me. Hope I'm not posting a dupe. If one is completely uninterested in the online services (my college and google give me all the PDFs and HTML I'll ever want to read), what is the eBook that most resembles a little computer with a cool screen? It would have to act as a USB master, so one can use WiFi, Bluetooth and IR dongles, and their associated keyboards. There seems to be a lot of work going on in the 505 forum, but Sony is not famous for being hack-friendly. In short, is there anything that allows you access to the root prompt and has compiling tool available. Sorry if this is demanding. I just found out about these recently and am unused to proprietary devices!