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Originally Posted by frabjous
The project is in a very early Beta stage. It makes perfect sense to me that they wouldn't publish a list of features until they've got a fully working version to release. At the moment they probably don't want casual users stumbling across it and installing it before a stable version is produced.
But you can find out more info in several places, including this forum, the project's blog:
http://blog.openinkpot.org/
...and the Users' Guide:
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The users guide is just that, a guide for users - but to be a user there needs to be a 'selling point'? An area of interest to bring new folk into the project - either as contributor or user of the end product.
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Originally Posted by quickhand
The description attached to this forum is:
"OpenInkpot is a community project aimed at creating a free, open-source firmware replacement for various e-book devices."
And the openinkpot website says, at the very top:
"OpenInkpot is a free and open-source Linux distribution for eink-based devices."
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Okay, that's a pithy introduction. Uses words that make sense; but as a replacement for the firmware - what makes this better than the manufacturers efforts .... ?
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These descriptions, for those who know what the terms "linux distribution" and "firmware" mean, pretty much say it all. But that's always an issue with projects run by tech savvy people: they don't know how to talk to people who aren't.
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I've been involved in IT since the 70s - and one thing that is very necessary is the description for the "non-savvy-man-on-the-street".
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That said, this a community project, where the philosophy is "don't complain, contribute!" If you find the explanations insufficient, submit your own. We need all the help we can get (don't forget, either, that this project is run by non-native English speakers).
And as for us wanting to discourage users, not at all! Anyone who's tried it will tell you it is pretty damn stable and usable already.
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One cannot until one knows what's what .........
Okay - Take the specs for the Cybook 3 - which is my model.
Explain what openinkpot does that
improves my reading experience on said unit. Why should I use openinkpot in preference to what Bookeen, in their tardy way, provide.....
Back to my original request;
Sell openinkpot to me as a 'customer'.