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Originally Posted by digid
I would be interested in how the display looks out in the daylight. I am really wanting an iPad as I have lots of PDF's and such, but would like something that is also cheap to take to the beach, camping, and not have to worry about as much for my epub reading. I seem to be stuck in this wait and see mode on the ebook readers. Waiting on the iPad PDF rendering, and waiting for a $100.00 epub reader that I can read in bed when the lights are out, and sitting outside in the sun. I hate the slowness of the eink displays, as well as the flash, and had great hopes for this 5 inch reader.
Dale
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Another possibility for your needs might be the Aluratek Libre. It has a 4-greyscale, non-backlit LCD display. The LCD has a mirror like coating that allows it to reflect light really well, so it performs great in direct sunlight and takes a lot less artificial light to be readable than the e-Ink screens. The LCD is fast on page turns. It sounds a lot like the OpenBook but without backlighting or color. See the images below. I bought my Libre a few days ago at Frys for $139. It sounds like it has a bit more functionality than the OpenBook as it can jump to specific page numbers, can view ADE DRM ePubs and PDFs. It also has a TOC function for ADE PDFs only, but not the other formats. It also has a search function for some of the formats and it does display linked images.
The first two images show the text blurry due to using a flatbed scanner rather than a digital camera. The other three images were taken with a camera. The first four images show an ePub book that I bought from the sony Store, deDRMed, and modified in Calibre to make the margins look better. The last photo shows a Mobi book.
It is very similar to the Jetbook Lite (JBL), so check out that forum for more details.
My OpenBook should arrive tomorrow so I will do a comparison of the two.
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