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Originally Posted by andym
You can find an interview with Michael and Laurent the 'Bookeen' guys here
It's in French of course but even if you don't speak it, you might find it worth looking at for the (unfortunately brief) demo of the screen. It does seem to change pages pretty quickly, at the press of a button.
The price is 350 euros TTC ie including VAT. So $350 give or take. It willl be sold direct from the Bookeen site, though they have distributers ib Spaion and italy.
No support for pdfs to start with but the interview seemed to suggest that it is in the pipeline. I wasn't quite sure whether this is because they are trying to find a way to get the text to reflow. (I'd be happy with pocketXpdf for the minute!).
Oh and it will support zipped/compressed files. |
The refresh time is impressive indeed. This is pretty old (1 month old) though, they're still talking about a July release in this video. Now that the release is in September, they get some extra time to tweak up the software and maybe add a few features (PDF support for example). Last time I tried a Mobipocket file on the iLiad, the typesetting wasn't any good, I hope it'll be better on this device (it was maybe related to the file itself and not Mobipocket support on the device).
It's a shame that Mobipocket can't provide a mobigen for linux, if they really want to extend the support for their format, such an app is desperately needed.