How about the Nokia N770 Internet Tablet + FBReader as an e-book reader? It runs Linux and is very comfortable, although it's a smaller LCD screen...
FBReader has Hebrew support, but I wonder how do I get Hebrew e-books to use on it....? .:====================================================:. Amichai Rotman Registered Linux User#: 201192 [http://counter.li.org/] Registered Ubuntu User #12851 [http://ubuntucounter.geekosophical.net] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ .:====================================================:. On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 18:38, sammy ominsky <s...@avoidant.org> wrote: > On 30/05/2010, at 16:54, geoffrey mendelson wrote: > > > As a disabled person, I really like the idea that a library can rent > number of digital copies of books, and lend them out over the internet with > DRM set to self destruct in 2 weeks. That way someone can check them out and > not bother to return them, at the end of two weeks, they can lend them out > again. > > This is an excellent idea. I wonder why nobody's doing it? > > > > That's why I used a frowny. I expect they will bomb and Steimatsky will > be selling them on close out to get rid of them. They will definately lower > the price to get people to buy their overpriced books. > > At which point the frowny face becomes a smiley. The fact that this device > HAS DRM doesn't mean it *REQUIRES* DRM. I have many many ebooks, and a > dedicated reader on clearance that reads the books I already have or may get > in the future by channels other than the official one, would be a wonderful > thing! Currently I read ebooks on my iPhone with Stanza, and it's extremely > usable, but not ideal. A trade- or regular paperback sized eink reader > would be perfect. > > > > > Nook... thing that will be missing is Hebrew and I'm sure someone will > figure out how to include it. > > It's running Android, and has already been rooted, so I suspect Hebrew's no > problem. > > > > As for libraries, Israel suffers because Andrew Carnegie was neither a > Jew nor a zionist, though only a librarian from the US is likely to > understand the comment. > > Or Enoch Pratt in Maryland :) > > --sambo > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >
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