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Old 06-14-2006, 01:24 PM   #1
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My ebook plan!

Hi everybody!

I felt this did not fit anywhere else, so I made a new thread.

As the title suggests, this is about my personal ereading plan fo the nearer and middle future. I'd love to hear similar "stories" from fellow mobilereaders!

It's now the middle of June, summer is starting and my final exam is over (I passed with flying colours, my mark was 1.1, best is 1.0 so no resason to complain) and I'm now theoretically through with studying (although I' do plan on doing my "master of music" degree so I'll still be stuyding for the next to years).
To cut it short, I'm now in a phase of rest and recuperation. I've got a larlge amount of ebooks from various sources ready for reading and am now feverishly waiting for an eink device to arrive. i'm using my PocketPC at the moment, but the small, backlit display and the fact that it's rather uncomfortable to hold are forcing me to read less than I would like...I love to read LOTS!

So my plan goes as following:

I'll wait till the end of June, beginning of July and see if I can get a 2sample" of the Hanlin V2. I'm a typical early adopter, so I'm used to "unfinished" products...
If I don't manage to get hold of a V2 by that time, I'll take a look at the V8. If it looks to be okay then I'll take that.
After having secured an ereading solution I'll then wait and see how the market develops (I hope it doesn't develop into a Dodo...) and get an "advanced" ereading device when I feel that they have progressed far enough down the right track (Maybe something like the Iliad Mk. 4...^^) and I can afford one...

What are your plans?
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Old 06-14-2006, 02:04 PM   #2
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I had hoped to have obtained the Sony Reader by now to spend the summer evenings reading in the garden. Now that its release has been pushed back to the fall, I'm not that eager to get it anymore. So I don't have a real "plan".
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Old 06-14-2006, 03:28 PM   #3
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I passed with flying colours, my mark was 1.1, best is 1.0 so no resason to complain
Congratulations, CommanderROR! Truly an accomplishment to be proud of!

My plan is to see what devices actually come out, and then see about scraping up the money. I used to be more of an early adopter type (bought my first Palm -- then Pilot -- the week they came out), but marriage makes for less discretionary funds, that is to say, greater reluctance on my part to run up debt.

I'll probably want to hold one (of each, preferably) in my hands before I make a final decision. Whatever I go with, I plan on using till it dies rather than upgrading with each new offering, so I want to be reasonably confident that it'll meet my needs. Left to my own devices (pardon the pun) I upgrade my Palm about every 3rd generation, and I expect my perceived upgrade pressure to be lower for a reader.

Oddly enough, as my wife is finishing her PhD in 19th century British lit., she's actually kind of interested in this sort of gadget (she's resistant to most gadgetry) because it would make it easier for her to deal with obscure texts that aren't available in print (that is to say, on paper) any more. Her needs are actually more demanding than mine -- i.e. she'll need to take notes, while I just want to read stuff.
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Old 06-14-2006, 06:00 PM   #4
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I was thinking either the Sony (for: price, against: drm) or the iRex (for: screen, against: price). Now I am not so sure anymore with the release date for both pushed further in the future.
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Old 06-14-2006, 06:06 PM   #5
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Iliad all the way!!!

I have been following e-ink for a while - my main desire is to read pdfs of scientific papers. When I was a graduate student I used to spend hours in the library, photocopying papers, carrying them home and reading them, and then filing them - I still have a few meters of such papers in my office... Although I hardly ever touch them, I am reluctant to throw them out because I may need to refer to some, and they are not necessarily available electronically.

Nowadays the scientific literature exists as pdfs, and we can get most free via our university libraries, and so they accumulate on the computer. Now the dilemma is print to read, or read on the computer. I do alot of reading when traveling, and over the last few years getting the laptop open in crowded planes with a reclined passenge in front has become nigh impossible. At the same time I hate to print - environment, and ink is expensive. So I would love to be able to carry 1 gb of papers in a dedicated reader to pull out on the plane and read. I would love to take such a device to meetings as well, with abstracts on it, and the ability to annotate is enticing.

Part of me would also love to put books on it, but this is secondary for me. I read few bestsellers, being more into history and non-fiction, or classics, and so am worried that while the Kings, Browns and Grishams would be available that this would do little for me. I used to have a Rocket ebook and was very sad to see the lack of follow up from publishing - so I am shy about the Sony (DRM aside - also not a plus).

In the end the Iliad's larger screen, and slightly more greyscale and annotation features is the deciding factor for me. I am not sure that having that in a flexible paper format is a huge advantage - I can hold a 'hard back'.

So ... I will wait for the Iliad. It is alot of clams, admittedly, but I have a round birthday coming up (don't ask) and so that is my justification...
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Old 06-14-2006, 06:14 PM   #6
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I will probably do something similar to your plan CommanderROR, but probably not as quickly as you will. When you get your V2, be sure to post your thoughts here please!
Also, is there any DRM support planned for the V2? Mobipocket or???
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Old 06-15-2006, 10:45 AM   #7
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I've recently been learning more toward the iLiad, since I'm returning to school in the fall. I was going to purchase the Sony Reader, since I had a Librie. The Reader seems to resolve most of my frustrations with the Librie: low contrast, non-English UI elements (even with the English-flashed OS), Western spine orientation (i.e. the cover mounts on the left instead of the right), flaky conversion tools (e.g. News, Printer for Librie). My main goal was not to replace books, per se, but to read online content offline -- read electronic "printouts" of web pages. Toolbar for Librie is actually a fairly effective tool for getting web pages into the device, despite its exclusive reliance on IE. I expect that most of the conversion software for the Librie is vastly improved for the Sony Reader. I don't care about Sony's DRM content through Connect, as long as it remains an option and allows for more open formats, like PDF, which is supported natively. Unfortunately, Sony's been vague about native HTML support.

But the iLiad is growing on me. Since I'm returning to school in the fall, I'd like something with more robust PDF support. I'm planning get a proper book scanner (the Opticbook 3600) and scan all of my textbooks into an E Ink device. Since the scans will likely be PDF, the iLiad seems like the more appropriate choice, due to its larger screen and 1024 x 768 resolution and 158 dpi.

It doesn't look like either device will be released by the beginning of the fall semester, so I'll probably just wait for both to be released and review the consensus of both products.
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Old 06-15-2006, 11:05 AM   #8
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Ordered the iLiad, because its the tool which suits me best. I want the notetaking capabilities. And since iRex will hand out SDKs, there even might be a tool for anything we might come up with.

But the iLiad is far from beeing the device i dream of for reading offline content. Its too big, too heavy, uses too much energy, takes too long to witch pages and is missing color. Thats what i want from my next device, which hopefully be available in a couple of years.
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Old 06-15-2006, 12:08 PM   #9
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I wouldn't mind colour in an ereader..but it isn't among my Top10...and faster page-turning...isn't in there for me either...^^
nice to see that needs and wishes are different....:-)
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well, color would be interesting for magazine articles. Color images and grafics are alot easier to understand than b/w. But there you would need a bigger page size aswell. And therefore id like to see a rollable display, that in small, acts as pda, roled out to A5 as eBook reader and to about A4 as magazine and newspaper reader.

Fatser pageturns would be interesting for animations. But that would be farther down on my list aswell.
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Old 06-16-2006, 01:30 PM   #11
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first of all, congratulations for your achievement

i'll stick with my pda for now, and wait until a readius like device become available.

or if i have the money in the next couple of months and i can get someone to get me a v2...i'll be very tempted to buy one.
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Old 06-16-2006, 04:10 PM   #12
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Unfortunately, I not the big expert in planning.

Therefore has gone to China. Has met firm management Jinke. Has signed OEM the contract and I prepare V8 for sale in Russia and Ukraine (lBOOK)

I can tell, that experts Jinke have no sufficient experience and cannot independently prepare V2 for sale in the European market. Concept V2 is not thought over. V8 it is much easier and more reliable.
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@LVD Now i'm curious...

You say the concept of V2 is not thought over...what does that mean? The V2 is a slighly faster version of the V8 with a different OS (Linux) and support for western languages instead of chinese (and some shodd<y english support apparently)

Can you give us some more info?
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Dear Sirs,

First, I ask all to excuse me for awful English.

Secondly, the device for reading electronic books should be not more complex{difficult} than a children's toy "Tetris." eBOOK - the device for one function: readings.

V2:

Wolf Linux OS, CPU: Sumsang Arm 9 200 MHz, RAM: 32 Mb SDRAM, ROM 16 Mb - (much difficultly) for the electronic book. And all to thrust the European fonts!!!

As a result:

- the price increases

- there is a waiting time of loading WolfLinux

- time of functioning from the battery decreases in 2 times

- reliability of the software decreases

The last is very important. I do not believe that experts Jinke will manage to adapt well Linux and to create good SDK. I cooperate with them more year and I know their problems with experts on programming.

Our choice V8 is quite justified.

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The screen of 6 inches, 800*600 points - not probably to use for correct display of standard pages in PDF-a format. Efficiency from use of more powerful electronics - a zero

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I'm with you on almost all counts...

but...

A price increase of 50$ is negligible...I can live with that if it gives me 200Mhz and some more RAM...these things could always come in handy...

Loading the Linux Kernel takes time...ok...that's a problem. The advantage is, that 3r party devs could make readers and maybe een other softare for the device. The Hanlins already have a built-in calender, something i really like to see, and I don't think they need much more software, but new formats for ebooks emerge (there is still no standard in sight), so having an open platform seems a pretty good idea...

Battery Life is Halved??? That's bad news of course. However, I'm not sure whethe this will really happen. The V2 isn't finished even now, so maybe they'll get that working in time...I certainly hope so.

Viewing PDF on a small screen is bad? No way! If PDF Files are properly done, then they should work on any screen-size. Illustrations, technical Diagrams and stuff like that are of course not very "scaleable", but many books come in PDF format, so I wouldn't exclude that.

Also:
The V2 is our only option here in western Europe and in the US as well probably. We can't easily get a V8, even if we want to. We also would have to "hack" the devices firmware to properly display German (or even english) text. The Conversion Software and "Wolf-Printer" don't work properly on non-chinese machinees (several people here have tried it), so I'm not sure the V8 could become a viable alternative here, at least not in the near future.

Thanks for your input and please continue contributing to this Community. Any Input from actual owners of eink devices is greatly apprecaited!!!
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