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John.Deery · 01-08-2010, 11:23 AM

Hello all,

I was searching around to do research for a project my boss just dropped on my desk and I thought I'd tap the knowledge of this forum.

We were just asked by the higher-ups in our district about supplying e-readers to a select group of students as pilot for textbooks. Ideally they would be not be connected to wifi or wireless and have no account or subscription services (so students cannot charge up the school account and the devices can be lent out to anyone) but have note taking ability and the ability to do text-to-speech.

So far, I like the look of the BE Book (Hanlin eReader V3), which has everything except the note taking. Does anyone have additional ones that they think would work?

Also, and I'm not sure if this belongs in the "software" forum, but our teachers would be managing these e-readers, so I'm also looking for a way that they could mass deploy a book. I'm thinking of hooking up the readers to a usb hub, then being able to plug the hub into a laptop and push a book to each of them. I did a bunch of searching and couldn't find anything that did this, but before I jump into programming an interface I wanted to check if something existed.

Thanks!

01-08-2010, 11:23 AM	#1
John.Deery Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: kindle 2	Interesting project for a school... Hello all, I was searching around to do research for a project my boss just dropped on my desk and I thought I'd tap the knowledge of this forum. We were just asked by the higher-ups in our district about supplying e-readers to a select group of students as pilot for textbooks. Ideally they would be not be connected to wifi or wireless and have no account or subscription services (so students cannot charge up the school account and the devices can be lent out to anyone) but have note taking ability and the ability to do text-to-speech. So far, I like the look of the BE Book (Hanlin eReader V3), which has everything except the note taking. Does anyone have additional ones that they think would work? Also, and I'm not sure if this belongs in the "software" forum, but our teachers would be managing these e-readers, so I'm also looking for a way that they could mass deploy a book. I'm thinking of hooking up the readers to a usb hub, then being able to plug the hub into a laptop and push a book to each of them. I did a bunch of searching and couldn't find anything that did this, but before I jump into programming an interface I wanted to check if something existed. Thanks!