07:45 PM by Alexander Turcic in E-Book General | News

Solym from Actualitté sent us word that WH Smith France, the French subsidiary of the British bookseller, is going to sell the Cybook Gen3 e-reader. So if you happen to stroll by the famous "rue de Rivoli" alongside the Tuileries gardens in Paris, don't forget to step in the store and to check out the juicy Gen3 device.

Link: Exclusif : WH Smith France vendra le Cybook en septembre

07:29 PM by daffy4u in E-Book General | News

Came across this link in the Amazon Forums from the New York Times.

I asked Craig Berman, Amazon’s chief spokesman, for comment on a possible Kindle 2.0, and today he responded.

“Don’t believe everything you read,” Mr. Berman said. “There’s a lot of rumor and speculation about the Kindle. One thing I can tell you for sure is that there will be no new version of the Kindle this year. A new version is possible sometime next year at the earliest.”

Related: Report: Not one, but several Kindle successors in the works, New Kindle Rumor: Kindle 2.0 in October 2008?

03:50 PM by zelda_pinwheel in Miscellaneous | Announcements

Here's a friendly reminder about the next MobileRead meetup, happening in London on Saturday the 6th of September ! Lurkers and active members are all welcome. That's just over a week away, so mark your calendar ! If you're planning to come, please do stop by this thread and let us know. We'll be so disappointed if you don't come ! And you wouldn't want to make us sad, would you ? I thought not.

Details :
Costa Coffee Shop, Lower Ground Floor, Waterstones, 82 Gower Street London, UK

Sat 6th Sept 3 pm.

10:56 AM by Nate the great in E-Book General | News

The Soribook B60 is an ebook reader under development by a South Korean company. It's based on the 6" Vizplex screen, has an ARM CPU, and runs on Windows CE (instead of Linux). The B60 also has a touchscreen. You can find more information in our Wiki, or from Soribook.

One early adopter has been trying various reader software and currently has both eReader and Mobipocket running on it. The last 2 pictures are screenshots showing Mobipocket, and the first 3 are photographs showing eReader.

You can find his impressions on his blog.

08:52 AM by nrapallo in More E-Book Readers | Fictionwise eBookwise

EDIT: To easily surf the internet WITHOUT using the (limited) Linreb or Privoxy, please use Impserve and be sure to download all of the Impserve plugins to allow the downloading of content directly from the internet to your ebook reader!!!

Over in the thread Hacking EBW-1150 to browse the Internet, we have been exploring and have now found an easy way to allow all ETI hardware readers to 'surf the internet'.

We being nrapallo (myself), Ret and, in absentia, Nandagopal Kirubanandan. Major thanks go out to Ret for originally having this idea and finally getting it to work AGAIN as well as to the original author of Linreb (Nandagopal Kirubanandan) wherever and whoever you are!!

OK, so you have this new/slightly used EBW1150 or this REB1200 lying at the bottom of your gadgets drawer and you think (well maybe with some help from me) can I get this thing to browse the internet? The answer would be YES!

Most with just a EBW1150 should follow the first and third HOW-TO below, whereas those with multiple ETI devices should follow the second and third HOW-TO below (follow?):

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HOW-TO: Get just the EBW1150 to "Surf the Internet"
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So, basically you need to do this:
1. Run Linreb (usually uses port 9090)
2. Run privoxy (usually uses port 8118)
3. In privoxy, add the line "forward .ebooksystem.net 127.0.0.1:9090"
(without the quotes) in Edit Main Configuration (config.txt in section 5.2)
4. Set the reader to use HTTP proxy pointing to the localhost IP address (127.0.0.1) and port of privoxy (usually uses port 8118).

Since privoxy, Linreb and the reader are connected to the same PC we just use 127.0.0.1.

--OR--

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HOW-TO: Get both the EBW1150 and REB1200 to "Surf the Internet"
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So, basically you need to do this:
1. Run Linreb (usually uses port 9090)
2. Run privoxy (usually uses port 8118)
3a. In privoxy, add the line "listen-address LINREB_IP:PRIVOXY_PORT"
(without the quotes) in Edit Main Configuration (config.txt in section 4.1)
(where LINREB_IP is the IP address of the computer where Linreb is running and PRIVOXY_PORT is the 8118 port above)
3b. Also add the line "forward .ebooksystem.net LINREB_IP:LINREB_PORT"
(without the quotes) in Edit Main Configuration (config.txt in section 5.2)
(where LINREB_IP is the IP address of the computer where Linreb is running and LINREB_PORT is the 9090 port in which it listens)
4. Set the reader to use HTTP proxy pointing to the LINREB_IP address (usually 192.168.X.XX) and PRIVOXY_PORT of privoxy (usually uses port 8118) where X and XX are the last two octals of your computer's IP address. Just type 'ipconfig' in a dos/command prompt to find it out!

In this case, privoxy and Linreb are connected to the same PC (and use the same IP address) but the reader is connected to a router (and uses a different irrelvant IP address)

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HOW-TO: Start navigating the web on your hardware reader
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1. On your reader choose the Bookstore icon or Directory icon.
2. Go to the Content directory's First page and click to go to the 'next page'.
3. On the Second page, Go to 'Test internet links (add your own)' page.
4. Choose any link after the first one to surf to that page.
5. If you get stuck or halted, choose the Bookstore icon or Directory icon to start over. Sometimes you need to tap your Bookshelf icon as well.
6. Add more/favourite web links to "Content/Test.html". You can't directly enter a link, but must click on one already there to navigate. There is no 'back' button so all pages must be 'linked' to traverse them without re-staring.
7. Make sure any <a href="X"> links have the UNDERLINE="YES" tag i.e. <a UNDERLINE="YES" href="X"> or else there will be NO visual cue where the hyperlinks are. Guessing helps find them.
8. Have fun!

EDIT: I took some more pictures of surfing the internet (better lighting and quality). Have a look at my REB1200 Album and EBW1150 Album!

As always, enjoy!

Nick Rapallo
(nrapallo)

p.s. these are the lines to add to the privoxy config.txt file, namely for the EBW1150 only:

listen-address 127.0.0.1:8118
forward .ebooksystem.net 127.0.0.1:9090

for both the EBW1150 and REB1200:

listen-address 192.168.X.XX:8118
forward .ebooksystem.net 192.168.X.XX:9090

04:43 PM by Alexander Turcic in More E-Book Readers | Bookeen

Some people might be offended by calling the Cybook a "budget e-book reader", but if you are still unsure about what's going to be your next reading device, check out this CNet UK review, rating the Gen3 with a 7.5 ("very good"). Their verdict:

The Cybook is certainly not perfect. There's plenty of room for improvements when it comes to ebook navigation and the library functionality. We can forgive it some of these failings, however, as it has a significantly lower price than many of its rivals and the screen is wonderfully easy to read.

Thanks to MobileReader myridom for the tip.

11:16 AM by Riocaz in E-Book General | News

Kindle fails to set light to unsold e-book pile

The humble paper-based book isn't burnt just yet. Amazon is keeping schtum as to how many e-books it has sold, but evidence is mounting that predictions of iPod-grade sales and billion-dollar revenues were a smidge optimistic.

I offer no comment purely because I have none to make.

11:53 PM by NatCh in E-Book General | News

Information Week is reporting comments from a named industry analyst to the effect that Amazon is looking hard at the textbook market, particularly at the university level:

After a meeting with Amazon executives, McAdams Wright Ragen analyst Tim Bueneman told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that Amazon sees a big opportunity in marketing the Kindle to college kids, and it's working on updated version of the e-reader to accommodate this.

This very interesting rumor has the earmarks of being more than just a rumor. Hopefully there won't be any repercussions for Mr. Bueneman or his firm for letting it slip.

Of course, as the article points out, the interface on the current model isn't really suited to textbooks, so that suggests that we might see a pretty radically different design in the rumored forthcoming Kindle models.

And this will come as a complete shock to all:

Representatives from Amazon remain tight-lipped about any updates to the Kindle.

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