Thread: Astak Mentor eBook readers with WiFi and Touchscreen (read-only)
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Old 05-26-2009, 11:54 PM   #2126
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Originally Posted by AJ Starr View Post
RobertB,

In reference to your upcoming website: www.goEZebook.com, I know it is not up and running yet. However, everytime I check it out, I get the default site for "godaddy" essentially wanting to sell that name.

I assume your company has purchased the URL, shouldn't you have your own, for want of a better name, Title page there.

What I see is that the URL goezebook.com is still for sale. I assume this is not correct though, since you say ASTAK has it.

AJ
Thats sort of strange because ever since I noticed the goEZebook.com url that RobertB has in his sig it has said that it was parked. Which I took to mean that someone had already registered that domain. Just checked again before this post and still shows as parked.

Also not meaning any disrespect to RobertB but I sort of take what he says in this thread the same way I take anything that a salesman says. You have to sort cock your head to one side squint your eyes a little and try to parse out the good bits while letting the I want to sell you something bits go on by.

I have to say that I am excited about the hinted at Spectrum that might use the PixelQi display. This could be a low cost larger size reader that could handle PDFs, not that I have many pdfs, and more web like content. I really like being able to navigate through a book easily and quickly, with a tap on screen. To me that is part of the reason that I like etexts. Put simply hyperlinks and the ability to search and do dictionary lookups.

I just hope that someone will pay a little closer attention to the ergonomics that go into them. I have to say the ergonomics of the EZ-Reader leave a lot to be desired at least for large pawed induviduals. The thing is actually hard for me to hold onto. Some of that could be fixed by simpling moving the page turn buttons up to the center of the side of the reader. I realize that Astak most likely has very little input on any design considerations but it would be nice if there were more reading devices that were actually comfortable to hold.
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