My Iliad experience

[tribble]

I think Stockpoint in Dueren is because they have a company there, that does the OS updates to the iLiads. But thats just a wild guess. I dont think you can go there and pick up your order. Wouldnt be a cheap way to save 20 bucks anyway

[CommanderROR]

I wasn't planning on going there...it's just good to know that it's not too far and at least the delivery time should be 24 hours once it's ready...

[Sischa]

Originally Posted by CommanderROR

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?

#270ish and Dueren something around 20 min away from my homeplace ... Yeah

pretty sure at delivery i wont be at the office to get the package hehe or something like this

[Henrycat]

Originally Posted by firekat

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".

I downloaded the newspaper ( De Tidj) when i made the last update, and it worked just fine.

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.

I tought the Iliad would be almost the same price in the US because it doesn't have the VAT issue... Maybe i'm remembering wrong, can't really say i'm keeping track of the selling price

Alex assured me the next update will have much better performance, mainly because power management will finally be implemented.

It seems the new viewers are working ok, but are still being tested so i don't know when i'll be able to use them

I still don't care about the "slow" performance, because i prefer slow and confortable with eink, is better than quick and "painfull"when reading with lcds

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?

Internal linking doesn't work in the current pdf viewer although it appears to be working in the final viewer. I asked about this some time ago and it seemed to work ok.

I just hope that the ones who create the pdfs will make it so the links are easily "clickable". Its a little hard "clicking" on text links with the pen

You can always just input the page number you want to jump to

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 don't think so, and everyone who has seen the device agrees that it works well enough to do some reading.

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.

It has been working since the Librie

We just need a device that answers well to what users need.

If iRex has taken this long, it's only because they want to give that device

[CommanderROR]

Just a question Henrycat:
Can you get a definite statement on the SD card thing? It used to say CF and SD/MMC and now it only says MMC/CF. I know it was talked about somewhere here before, but I think there was no definite answer about the change.

i'd like to use an SD card, but if it isn't sure whether that'll work i'll rather order a CF.

[Riocaz]

Actually this has already been answered:

Henry said that Alex, had confirmed that SD cards would work, however as Henry doesn't have one he hasn't tried it for himself.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...2&postcount=28

[CommanderROR]

Thanks my english friend...helpful as always..^^
I remebered that there was a mention somehwere but couldn't find it/was too lazy...^^

I'll go ahead and order a SD card then...

[Riocaz]

Always glad to be of help.

With the ammount of posts round here, it's always easy to miss one.

[oliverbogler]

Originally Posted by Riocaz

Always glad to be of help.

With the ammount of posts round here, it's always easy to miss one.

While we are revisiting the card issue, was the max size ever settled? If I remember right, Henrycat said 1GB worked, but some others (me included) wondered whether 2 or even 4GB would also work with the iLiad. Any new/old-but-I-missed-it information on this?

[arivero]

Originally Posted by Henrycat

Correct me if i'm wrong, but are you saying caching the whole book to memory, so it would only flip to another page when i jumped?

I suppose with text books it could work... my pdfs have been between 2-4 megas.

But my Beserk mangas in PDF are 120 megas (size of my CF), so how would you do it for that?

You could do using the networking capabilities of the iLiad, if they work as promised. The cached book can be stored in a main computer nearby.

On the other hand, one should do the strategy I already tried in my librie bash script for reading of .DJVU files: the previous page was kept just in case, and the next one was calculated and cached while the user was reading the current one. In this way the only delay is the one from e-ink driving, but no CPU-originated delays.

[Xsavior]

Something I noticed in the videos, the Sylus looks to be fairly short. Is it comfortable to use? Could you ues anyother wacom stylus with this?

[CommanderROR]

I think it looked short too, but I think that for normal usage it would be ok. i'm pretty sure any Wacom pen should work because the iliad uses the "Wacom Penabled Standard".
i'm not sure however...^^
I wonder how useful the Wacom could become with the right software. You're limited to A5 size and grayscale, but with the amount if sensitivity (255 pressure points) and stuff you could even consider using the Iliad as a graphics tablet.
My girlfriend would love that (she's a desgin student and is thinking about buying a Wacom Tablet).

How about a software that translates the input on the Iliad directly into the computer, just like a graphics tablet? That should be possible if somebody can do the right driver for the PC and/or MAC (shouldn't be a problem) and the Iliad receives a program that routes the Pen-input out through the USB port (should also be fairly easy).

What do you think? It would even be better than a normal graphics tablet because you could see the lines you are drawing on the Iliad and could thus judge your strokes a lot better!

[Riocaz]

Originally Posted by oliverbogler

While we are revisiting the card issue, was the max size ever settled? If I remember right, Henrycat said 1GB worked, but some others (me included) wondered whether 2 or even 4GB would also work with the iLiad. Any new/old-but-I-missed-it information on this?

The closest I can remember to an answer on this was:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...&postcount=124

Which said that 1GB did work, and that 2GB "should"

I regards to the stylus question.

As Commander said it usestheir standards so presumably any wacom stylus should work... However, the touchpad function isn't on if the stylus is in it's niche. So to use the touchpad you will still need to remove the stylus (or am I mis-understanding something fundamental.

[CommanderROR]

I guess you are right about the stylus having to be removed, but whether this can be easily circumvented remains to be seen.

[Henrycat]

Originally Posted by CommanderROR

@Henrycat

Just a brief reminder...you wanted to test something for me...^^
It's no hurry...just so you don't forget altogether.

Finally got some time to up the files and i forgot your pictures on my portable hard drive (had to take take them out of the CF for more space).

Anyway, here are some videos i made of the Iliad outside in the sun/shadow. Also some pics to showing your files opened.

files

I'll send you a link with the final pictures (indoors, so no flare), when i have the time, so you can see more clearly the text.