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Originally Posted by Devlar
I have a couple of questions about the Illiad, if someone could answer it would be appreciated. It looks like a pretty fantastic tool, especially for someone like me. I'm a Master's student, and journal articles are the norm.
1) Can I attach a USB keyboard, or any keyboard to it? Is this even possible? Writing on a device like this would be a godsend. I wouldn't have to carry my laptop at all anywhere.
2) I downloaded some videos of page changes on the Illiad. There were fantastically slow. Will this improve with software updates? Is there any way of speeding it up, such as printing PDFs to smaller sizes or using JPG rather than pdf, or black and white rather than greyscale etc? Does the size of the PDF have an impact on page speed turning?
Thanks in Advance
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Welcome to the Forum, Devlar.
1) I think the current information is that you can attach the keyboard, but it doesn't actually
do anything for you. If someone's gotten it to work, I'm sure they'll share.
That being said, there
is an on-screen keyboard, but one of the actual iLiad holders will have to tell you what uses it can be put to -- if they can tear themselves away from their hacking attempts for a few moments.
2) The screen refresh rate is a function of the e-Ink tech itself, and is common to all the current batch of e-Ink devices. The
display itself refreshes at one of two speeds: 1 second, and .5 seconds (the faster rate leaves ghosting on the screen, though most report it's not any more bothersome than ghosting on a paper page).
The other component to display change is the file itself, that is, how long it takes to create the image from the file and pass it to the screen before the screen can even start to refresh. That's where a big honkin' PDF file will bite you (pardon the pun
), that is slow things down.
Then there's the whole question of getting the PDF file sized to display legibly on the screen, but that's another topic.
On another note entirely -- did I see Bluetooth mentioned in one of those complicated dumps, guys? That looks potentially useful....