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e-readers are amazing!
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: LTK on 13 Oct 2011, 11:36 ---it's actually a bit strange that, with all of recent history's amazing technical advancements, no one managed to make a quality color display that you can comfortably read in the sunlight so far
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Don't be so impatient! I remember when the engineers in my company got hold of their first 5-character liquid crystal display. You had to look at the right angle, the contrast was pathetic, the updating was slow, and it had a short useful life. OK, I'm ancient, but it still wasn't that long ago.
Oh, and this.
LTK:
Typing this on my e-reader right now. Using it for web browsing doesn't work bad at all. Keyboard responsivity is good, but it takes a while before the screen catches up.
Calibre was the first thing i tried to download, but this thing apparently didn't like it, said it failed to download because it's unsupported. So i'll probably end up rooting it. The good news is, people are already busy making how-tos.
Oh, and the only words in its dictionary are SONY and Reader. Useful!
Welp, looks like the first book I'll be reading is the 632-page EULA.
Looks like it's easy to plug it in via USB and transfer files to it. So what's the first thing I put on? That's right, screensavers! :-P A bunch of those can be found on nook-look.com , some of them are really classy. You can just ignore that they're made for Nooks, what's important is that they're 600x800 and monochrome.
LTK:
There you have it. Not a wallpaper, I can really read QC on this! And it's sharper than it looks on this crappy photo. Reading books is better though. It's incredible how you can have access to humanity's greatest literal achievements on something no bigger than a trashy romance novel.
LTK:
If anyone is still interested, I have now hacked the reader with some Russian software. It runs a bog-standard Android OS now, which is cool. Only I don't own any other Android devices, so I'm not quite sure what to do next...
bicostp:
Run The One Android Game, of course!
Or install the Kindle client and Adobe Reader for redundancy's sake.
Do you have access to the Android Market? That opens up a lot of options.
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