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Originally Posted by DaleDe
True enough, unfortunately manufacturers tend to EOL (End of Life) firmware for products before the hardware is even obsolete. Thus they don't offer upgrades to the older hardware which is really what causes people to lose interest in the product. This seems to be by design.
Dale
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That's why I have gone with BeBook/Astak reader. (I keep forgetting whether that's Jinke or Hanlin
) They run openinkpot, which works and is open source. Plus the battery is replaceable and is a Nokia common cellphone battery. I have hopes it'll still be available 3-4 years from now. I won't use DRM'ed e-books, so if what I have works, (and it does for RTF, HTML, and non DRM'ed Mobi and Epub) it doesn't matter to me if I slipstream out of the latest whizbang.... Like my old calculator - simple, utilitarian and it works...
(Of course, I still have a machine running Windows ME, executing 3.1 games....)