[hermanrj]

I am an academic (professor in logic) and book-person - and have recently got a BeBook. Some comments about the FLEPIA from my view point

- it is most important that the reader can present a4 - pdf documents in a reasonable way. Our documents are usually a4 - pdf - both the scientific ones and those more administrative. The scentific ones are either produced within the community (using LATEX) or on the net from JSTOR or other places. Most classical papers in my field are easily available but can only be read on my computer or laptop. The a4 - reader is an important improvement.

- it is not important to have the colors. This may be important for approaching a web-browser - but the scientific papers are almost exclusively in black-white. Colors may be used for introductory text books - but so far have no important function in the serious parts of science.

- it is fine to have the possibility to annotate papers.

- I am a little sceptical about the wireless connections. They are fine on their own, but may make too much emphasis on proprietary formats. The scientific community is basically open and should remain so. I would prefer to have open exchange of papers and readers able to read many different formats, rather than wireless connections.

- which formats should the reader cope with. I like the BeBook here. It is good that it is able to read DJVU - which few other readers do. I would also like it to read postscript and sony-lfr. I may do some programming to have this done. But the important are pdf, html, txt and then fine with rtf, djvu and mobi.

As you can see the FLEPIA is not aimed at my community. The one that will be is Hanlin V9 - if it will ever be released.

As a book-person I enjoy your site. The book you release are mostly excellent. One wish - some of the other books by Freeman Wills Croft (beyond the Pit Prop Syndicate) or books by John Dickson Carr (Carter Dickson). They would be most welcome.


hermanrj