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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The problem there is eReader. The format is abysmal. The format is designed for palm sized screens. Most eReader eBooks have no paragraph indents and line spaces between paragraphs. This ruins the reading experience. Makes it not nice on a larger screen. What would be nice is to have Mobipocket as the main DRM format and then have eReader/LIT/BBeB as non-DRM formats available.
When you mention HTML, is this a FULL implementation of HTML? Will we have true folder/subfolder support?
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IS the question! And from a careful reading of the specs, I'm leaning towards the Astak Mentor 6" being a Netronix EB-100. Literally the same specs. Now I don't know how they're going to meet that $200 price point unless they're pre-ordering in greater-than-5,000 unit quantities, because if one is ordering that unit in less-than-5,000 unit quantities the price rapidly climbs towards the individual-unit-order price of $250.
Plus, you have to remember that the industry is experiencing massive shortages because of display shortages. So even if they
are placing a 10,000+ order, who's to say their supplier will be able to deliver?
I note the interesting fact that the Astak (and the Netronix) offers CHM support; I also note that the EB-200/210/300 do so with WinCE, but the EB-100 uses Linux 2.4/2.6.
I can't see eReader offering it's format without demanding the same exclusivity that Mobipocket is demanding for the DRM version. I'm surprised, given that there are tools which allow for decryption of the DRM'd versions of both eReader and Mobipocket, that someone hasn't black-boxed DRM support into some other reader app - such as FBReader. Still, I've got an EB-100 on the way. (Just to check things out, of course!
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Derek