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Old 04-17-2008, 10:12 AM   #9
SpinozaQ
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I tried this as well. It is not really very usable. It is slow, and the text is too small. I thought O'Reilly would release a browsing application for the Iliad. It wouldn't take much. Just log in, view book shelf, read books with page bar and larger text. They gave away (2) Iliad devices at a conference last year. I thought that meant they might support the device.... oh well.

If I ever have time I would write this application. An application using Java and Rhino should be able to execute the Javascript used on the site well enough to render the text. This type of application shouldn't be against the TOS ( which doesn't allow robots ), as long as it doesn't cache too much, and acts like a browser.
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