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ChrisC333 · 03-13-2010, 07:35 PM

Not sure how relevant this, but the iRiver Story (E-ink) seems to cover these, according to one source. I'm not sure if it can handle general reading of a wider range.

Text: Adobe PDF and EPUB, TXT, DOC, PPT, XLS, and HWP
Comic Viewer/images: ZIP, JPG, BMP, and GIF
Audio: MP3, WMA, and OGG

Menu support for 15 Languages: English, German, French, Russian, Spanish, Chinese (both simplified and traditional), Dutch, Polish, Korean, Italian, Turkish, Japanese, Czech, and Swedish.

I have also seen the overall number of readable languages quoted as 40, but unfortunately I can't find any confirming details. You can apparently add any truetype fonts (.ttf) by dragging and dropping into the font directory, but I haven't tried it yet.

03-13-2010, 07:35 PM	#17
ChrisC333 Groupie Posts: 194 Karma: 2031 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: West Australia Device: Acer eM250 Netbook, iTouch, iRiver Story, HP TM2 Tablet	Not sure how relevant this, but the iRiver Story (E-ink) seems to cover these, according to one source. I'm not sure if it can handle general reading of a wider range. Text: Adobe PDF and EPUB, TXT, DOC, PPT, XLS, and HWP Comic Viewer/images: ZIP, JPG, BMP, and GIF Audio: MP3, WMA, and OGG Menu support for 15 Languages: English, German, French, Russian, Spanish, Chinese (both simplified and traditional), Dutch, Polish, Korean, Italian, Turkish, Japanese, Czech, and Swedish. I have also seen the overall number of readable languages quoted as 40, but unfortunately I can't find any confirming details. You can apparently add any truetype fonts (.ttf) by dragging and dropping into the font directory, but I haven't tried it yet.