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Originally Posted by diabloNL
No idea because I'm a total noob in the world of e-reading. The only thing I know is that I at least want a reader with e-ink technology. I think 649 Euro is a lot of money and even with his lower specs the Sony reader with a price between $300 and $400 is more attractive to me. I just want to read novels and the Sony reader is even smaller in size and because of that also in screen resolution. I have no intention of reading newspapers.
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I have no intention to bind me to a proprietary format for the documents. PDF is a partial open standard and the ability for new "readers" (or even applications) lets the Iliad look better to me.
I hope they will really give out some SDK to everyone. Otherwise i think, maybe someone from openembedded.org will get a hold of it and open it to the repositories and possibilities of openembedded.org (since its already running Linux).
It is really a hord of money, but i think the price will drop, when the whole concept is not that new anymore. Look at the rest of the computer market, prices know only one way. So either buy now, buy high or wait till it gets in your price range (or buy something else and be happy with that (but i wouldn't consider Sony's thing an option, even if its cheaper) DRM as _option_ is ok, but i don't like a DRM- or proprietary format-only device. That makes no sense (to me)).
oh, and btw (don't want to scare anyone, though):
Linux is GPL-licensed and I am sure Irex knows the consequences.