06-21-2007, 10:47 AM | #46 |
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@athlonkmf, I don't dare show that photo to my 13 year old daughter. She won't be satisfied with my eBw 1150 if I do.
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06-21-2007, 11:02 AM | #47 |
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06-21-2007, 11:16 AM | #48 | |
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Supports Mobipocket too
Just read this. Didn't see it mentioned, but sorry if I am repeating someone else:
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06-21-2007, 11:28 AM | #49 |
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Your Reader pic (including the others in the iLiad thread). She's a manga fiend and one of the first things she wanted to know when I started letting her use my eBw was whether she could read manga on it. (Fortunately, there is now a conversion script that will probably make this possible, if I can find digitized versions of the titles she owns in paper.)
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06-21-2007, 11:39 AM | #50 |
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Fromt he latest pictures, the Cybook looks like an ergonomic disaster. I know the Sony is poor in that regard as well.
When I hold my Sony, the page turn button would be best 1/2 way up or 3/4 the way up the top of the left side and would be nice also on the right side as well depending which hand you prefer to use. The Cybook looks like all the controls are at the bottom. Even worse then the Sony. When will these companies learn how people actually hold the reader and make buttons so it is more comfortable to turn pages. The other problem here is we need another reader with the same specs as the Sony like we need a hole-in-the-head. What we need is a reader that handles letter/a4 PDF properly. Make the reader do 1024x768 in a 4:3 aspect with a 9" screen and it might be ok. |
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06-21-2007, 11:54 AM | #51 |
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I wonder what the price on this thing is going to be, because I'm drooling already.
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06-21-2007, 11:57 AM | #52 | |
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06-21-2007, 12:32 PM | #55 |
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One thing that I want in a next gen reader is PROPERLY PLACED CONTROLS! I want to have the buttons for page turning placed where most people hold their thumb when reading. How hard is it to do? I'm sorry, but these companies are run by chimpanzees.
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06-21-2007, 12:42 PM | #56 | |
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When I hold my Reader in my left hand (I'm left-handed), my left thumb falls naturally over the page turn "rocker switch". It's perfect, as far as I'm concerned. |
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06-21-2007, 01:08 PM | #57 |
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But it's still a two handed read, this is a one page display. Sure you can do it for some time but you need a gorilla grip not a chimp one.
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No, I hold my Reader in one hand, and it's perfectly comfortable. Perhaps I'm just deformed .
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06-21-2007, 01:16 PM | #59 |
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Or very strong. No Chimp there!
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06-21-2007, 01:20 PM | #60 |
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The way that I hold it is with the four fingers of my left hand supporting the back of the Reader, the bottom left corner of the Reader at the base of my thumb, and my thumb over the page turn rocker switch. As I say, that's perfectly comfortable for me. I am left-handed, though - perhaps it doesn't work so well for right-handed people?
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