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Hello to all. My company, GMCE Group, is thinking of selling a new 5 inch eBook. It will be E-ink and E-paper and will get about 8,000 pages on a single charge. The resolution will be 800 by 600 pixels, 170 dpi. It will have stereo music and headphone and we know we need an SD-card slot to expand 128MB embedded NAND flash. It has all the major features (Jump to Page, Progress Bar, Font Increasing, Bookmark, Zoom, Slideshow, Auto Shut-Off) and would be ported with MobiPocket. We would introduce at about $295. That's not a bad price compared to Kindle; but I am looking for feedback!! What are your thoughts regarding price? eGeek06 |
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I'm one of those in the "don't need audio" on my e-book camp. Firstly, I already have a sophisticated and high-quality music player and music library system. Secondly, playing MP3 files totally eliminates the battery-life advantages of an e-book. Could you lower the price by eliminating the MP3 feature?
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Kindle supports "Audible" books, but the only way I know to get a book in Audible format is to buy them from the audible.com site. Kindle doesn't allow you to select which audio (MP3) file you want to play. If there are 5 files on the device, it will play those 5 in a random order. The description of their MP3 support is "listen to music while you read".
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Audible is MP3 with a different file extension... I think it is .m4a... Anyway there are instructions on how to get an iPod to see riped audio books as an Audiobook rather than MP3 files. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a way to trick the Kindle in a similar way. Also, there are ways to join together MP3 files... basically you have to make them Wav files, join them together than convert them back to mp3. Anyway, here is how you do it for the iPod. http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/itunsabk.htm Perhaps that will get you started and you can tell us all how to do it. BOb (PS: That said I would just prefer to use the iPod to listen to audiobooks.) |
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You can't read while you're listening, and each mp3 is listed as an audiobook and can crowd the display. But it's better than random tracks. |
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I do feel that a 5" screen is too small.
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