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When a more broad article on e-reader devices?

When a more broad article on e-reader devices?

Posted Jul 23, 2009 15:27 UTC (Thu) by bockman (guest, #3650)
Parent article: The grumpy editor's e-book reader

There are many e-reader devices with ePaper display - I bought myself a cybook Gen 3 18 month ago - and most (all of them) have linux on-board. Moreover, there are many sites selling on-line books, some in standard fomats, some others in vendor-locked formats.
Then there is OpenInkpot, which I did not know existed until now. More than enough material for an article peraphs?


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When a more broad article on e-reader devices?

Posted Jul 23, 2009 15:39 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

Your editor would like nothing more than to be showered in such devices so that a survey article could be written. So far, the vendors of these devices have not been forthcoming, though, and your editor's mother - the source of the Kindle - probably cannot be counted upon for any further acquisitions. So it's going to be really hard to look at readers in general; writing such an article from web sites and marketing literature just doesn't give the same sort of results.

I do intend to play with OpenInkPot in the near future, stay tuned.

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