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Hey Henrycat! Your in the quarter finals
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@Henrycat
Just a brief reminder...you wanted to test something for me...^^ It's no hurry...just so you don't forget altogether. |
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Thanks Henrycat!
I'm not sure what you mean by the "haven't renamed to .htm"? I just checked and there are three files on my webspace, always the same content only with different file-formats. PDF is the file as I got it...good or bad, that's the way it was offered on the website. Then I used PDF-to-HTML and PDF-to-TXT to convert it. I have used a different software to do it again and found the results to be a lot better for the .txt but just as problematic for the html (hard line breaks). I uploaded the screenshots of the .txt and the html as displayed by the Hanlin V8 and just wanted to compare how they llok on the Iliad. |
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Henrycat,
Thank you for all your work on supplying us with this information. The videos answer all the questions of the sliding release date. This device is nowhere close to release unless the newspaper feed function works "seamlessly" and that certainly negates a lot of utilization. Even then all the functions that you show in a marketing perspective are in the "prototype" realm and are in no way ready for "primetime". At close to $900.00 USD landed in the USA, this makes the iLiad a very expensive toy if the page turning, refresh rate, battery life is not improved - substantially. It would take in total a shorter time for me to start up my laptop, and navigate through my documents and manuals than it would be for me to use the iLiad. The whole purpose of using it would be convenience - very low start up times, document navigation & long battery life. By the videos shown here iRex still has a way to go. Hopefully the latest revision will be a marked improvement. One question I do have (as hope springs eternal that this device will be improved) is there a table of contents, index, or bookmark listing available in PDF's? How can you navigate through documents to specific pages? I would be utilizing PDF's for reference and would need to jump to specific parts of the manuals efficiently & effectively without using the slider control or numerous page turns. Any possibility of a search function forthcoming? I did think that the handwriting function appears to work well. I am beginning to think that the e ink technology may not be up to the e reader task. I think that it will be relegated to signage and low refresh rate displays. I am still holding out a lot of hope for this device. I have been mostly pessimistic about the iLiad, and this would be a product of iRex not being forthcoming or honest in their communication. Overall I am optomistic that e ink could work, though I think that realization of that is still a way down the road. |
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I fear I have to agree with everything firekat says. Though I'm an eternal optimist what these videos show is a painfully slow experience. Even if the price were a fifth I would probably stop using it after a couple of days. Though the Nokia 770 has a much smaller screen, with FBReader, page turns are instantaneous and it will have to do for me until eInk technology matures a bit. My only hope is that Henrycat's videos show particularly unrepresentative files struggling with a particularly hobbled OS and/or application software. It is now up to iRex to release some footage to show us a "properly" functioning device. The delayed release date is indeed beginning to make sense!
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@Henrycat
Something I forgot... Is the Battery of the Iliad user-replaceable? I already ordered so i'm chaught now, but it would be nice to know anyway...^^ |
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The battery is a specially for the iLiad customized Li-Ion one, as far as i know. |
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well...we'll jsut hope it doesn't break then...
Oh by the way tribble...did you read the line "Products will be shipped from our Stockpoint in Dueren - Germany"? I just checked and found that it's about 330km from where i'm sitting...time is calculated as about 3 hours...so if they actually have stock there anytime soon it at least won't take a long time to deliver to Wuerzburg...^^ The trouble is that my order numer is 470...and I have no idea how many they are expecting by June 30th...does anyone know that? |
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