[Wylug-discuss] advice on ebook reader or similar...

[Martyn Ranyard]

Another vote of general not-badness for the Archos 101it.

I have one and whilst its viewing angle is not as good as say the HP
Touchpad or the Adam that I also have, it is not a bad budget tablet
at all.  I got mine from HMV in-store as they were about £130 just
before xmas.  It also has usb and hdmi if you want to sorta-dock it
and a microsd slot for expandable storage.  It does not charge from
usb, which is frustrating, but the tablets that do "charge" from usb
tend to violate the standards anyway (the hp touchpad charges from a 2
amp 5.7V usb charger, and when plugged into a pc will drain when
reading an ebook, much like a lot of smartphones when using navigate
in a car but I digress)

It does have OpenAOS which is a cut-down linux but tbh if you're a
hacker, it's easy to build up to a full distro - I have installed
ubuntu on my Adam with some success.

I would say though consider looking at which devices have a decent mod
community - check out xda-developers.com and tablet-roms.com for a
feel of what is going on for any device you're looking at, as
improvements in the OS (whether Android or a purer gnu/linux model)
are made fastest with a good dev community.

p.s. I generally have my Adam at Wylug, let me know if you want to
take a look at the Archos as I can easily bring that down too,
complete with OpenAOS as well as the original android and a
cyanogenmod gingerbread rom on there.
--
Martyn

On 31 January 2012 21:40, Dave Fisher <davef at davefisher.co.uk> wrote:
> On 4 November 2011 10:43, Smylers <Smylers at stripey.com> wrote:
>> Anybody using Calibre should be aware of this bug report, the comments
>> on it, and the Calibre developer's attitude to, among other things,
>> security vulnerabilities: https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/885027
>
> If anyone is still bothered about this, it may be worth re-visiting
> the bug report.
>
> It appears the Calibre's lead developer has fixed the minor bugs and
> removed the entire module which was the source of most concern.
>
> It's a shame it took so much effort and bad behaviour to finally bring
> about the 'right thing'.
>
> Good to know, nonetheless.
>
> Dave
>
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