Thanks to everyone throughout the forums and especially to CommanderROR for reviewing the Starebook.
Recently I got interested in e-book-readers and first thought the Iliad would be a good choise.
Right now I'm for the Starebook!
And you summarize my intention:
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Originally Posted by CommanderROR
The device is cool, the device-firmware is cool. The format and format-creating software need work.
If what you are after is a handy ebook, then this might very well be the ideal candidate for you. (once it becomes possible to actually create nicer-looking ebooks for it)
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But:
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Originally Posted by CommanderROR
Unfortunately, there is a bad side as well...and that bad side is rather serious at the moment. While the device performs flawlessly, both where hardware and where Software are concerned, the file-format .stk that is the only supported format at the moment is a real limiting factor.
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What does that mean to me?
Up to now I used - sometimes - my little, simple organizer (10 lines only). I converted technical documentation to txt and downloaded it.
Or scanned lengthly texts (company internal documents). The resulting pdf-document I OCRed to txt and downloaded that. No formatting anyway.
And I had some free e-books on it.
Actually I never bought an e-book from Amazon or similar. Maybe I'll do it when I have a real reader.
This is the way I want to use the STAReBOOK. Can I do that with the current availabe utilities?
What about pdf-documents with images included? I can convert only txt to .stk, how can I see the images?
Somewhere I read the font of STAReBOOK is ugly. Can that be changed in future by a firmware update?
I think the font is given in pdf-files. So whenever it can take pdf directly the font cannot be always the same. Am I right?
And if the STAReBOOK can't give me what I want, can the SONY do it?
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Originally Posted by CommanderROR
I'm not sure what the stance of Staretek is about international sales, but they handled the shipping of my sample unit so professionally (I have never seen a package go through customs in Germany so smoothly and with no charges applied) I guess they do have some experience.
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Every some month I'm in Taiwan. So maybe I have the chance to visit Staretek directly. At least I'm saving the transportation cost.
BTW CommanderROR, I see you're in Germany, too. Maybe we're not to far away from each other and I could have a glance at your STAReBOOK, if you don't mind.
I live in the vicinity of Recklinghausen and a one or two hours drive wouldn't be a problem.
Thanks for help
Thomas