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You may be right, but in this case it was the FCC who leaked out the specs, and Engadget is known to spend their free time on FCC's website looking for unreleased information ;-)
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I still think there's room for other ebook devices to compete. We certainly haven't seen the perfect ebook reader announced yet... |
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I doubt they are aiming for Christmas 2006. It doesn't make sense to keep it under wraps for so long. Sony Reader has captured a lot of advance publicity; my guess is summer 2007.
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Does Apple sell design services ?
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That's not even remotely Star Trek.
Star Trek is PADDs with color display and way less frame. That's Battlestar Galactica or Raumpatrollie Orion (strange black'n'white german scifi) concerning "perfect" ebook reader: Until now the iliad beats all the other readers hands down. (well, except the price) |
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Any chance of someone posting the PDF of the Amazon Kindle user manual? Seems it's no longer on the FCC site, mysteriously enough, or the link cited above (on page 1 of this thread) isn't working. Many thanks!
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Well, butter my backside and call me a biscuit -- they seem to have shut it down.
How fortunate that I happened to pull a copy onto my hard drive. ![]() Unfortunately, I didn't pull copies of the photos, those were interesting. ![]() Addition: Some of the stuff seems to still be there, but they have, indeed, pulled the manual and the photos. (sigh) Last edited by NatCh; 09-11-2006 at 03:19 PM. |
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My question now is when we are going to see a Google ebook reader. The trend in online content seems to be that the physical stuff (devices, peripherals, high speed access) is where the real money is, since digital content is becoming more and more available at unbeatable prices (0$!!).
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I could'nt open the one you posted NatCh so I'm posting my copy and the one with the pictures.
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Many thanks for posting the manual. Anyone grab the pictures before someone in Seattle called and had them pulled?
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The one with the pictures is 2.25megs. It will not upload because of the 1meg limit. Anyone know how I can work around this?
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The only thing that comes to mind is to screen cap each page and post them as pong files (PNG -- I call them that in honor of the Pioneer), or some other compressed variant.
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I only have reader installed
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I tried to open it with Photoshop. It refuses because of a security lock. There is a security signature preventing extraction and copying content.
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Open it in Adobe Reader and do Ctrl+Print Screen to get a screen capture of each individual page.
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Oh dear, even the manual is ugly! A5-sized pages printed as A4, and all the images have bitmapped text. Doesn't say much for an ebook reader, I'd think.
This thing looks like a prop from the original HHGG TV miniseries (c'me on, someone say another TV series, this is fun!). I don't care much about design: I don't own anything Applish, but this is just plain stupid. I don't really need a keyboard, either, and that occupies too much room. Oh Sony, where(fore) art thou, Sony? Last edited by lordvetinari2; 09-12-2006 at 04:44 AM. Reason: Misspelled acronym: "Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" |
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I've been thinking about the ... odd format of the manual -- my theory on it is that they mean the text part (minus the margins) to be the size of the screen.
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It just occured to me that the way the side edges slant in toward the top face might make this thing a bit annoying to pick up from a flat surface.
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Now that Amazon owns Mobipocket, I hope this new device of theirs doesn't kill any chance of Mobi being available for the Iliad.
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