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Originally Posted by Rob Lister
I think I get the basis for this device. Tell me where I'm wrong ...
It contains no rendering platform; no xhmtl, no epub, no fonts, no text search, nothing but a store of images it displays one by one. It simply displays an image of each page as formatted by the parent off-board app (which acts as a server, of sorts) and stored in the books memory.
If the above is even close, it might have uses, but not any related to general reading. I certainly wouldn't have any use for it.
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That appears to be the case, judging by the comments in the source report.
Nate confirmed the 5 book limit from Txtr.
The evidence supporting the bitmapped DLs is the 5 books-in-4GB limit and that ADEPT-DRM'ed ebooks can be read on it without counting as an extra authentication device. The bulkiness of the files suggests the bitmaps won't be compressed, either, so the thing is likely just feeding bitmaps from flash to the eink buffer. Or maybe just remapping the buffer to different parts of the flash memory by changing a pointer.
Hmm, those are 8-bit era techniques... straight out of the Apple II. Not even up to ATARI or Commodore levels.
The LINUX crowd should be proud: no bloat in that code!
