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

[that guy]

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*From:* that guy <kaiise at gmail.com>
*Date:* 29 January 2012 17:34:24 GMT
*To:* wylug-discuss at wylug.org
*Subject:* *Re: [Wylug-discuss] advice on ebook reader or similar...*

The  blackberry playbook is rootable and RIM is cutting their prices
becauseof Market failure .

Also kobo e reader has a
Tablet counterpart. I'm a sci textbook PDF guy so e-ink based ereaders
have left me bereft.


On 29 Jan 2012, at 15:18, David Holden <dh at iucr.org> wrote:

I've had the exact same need for several months - 10 inch minimum for me

to read PDFs. I've thought about the cheapo option but I'm going to wait

a little longer. I think the first half of this year there will be some

good price/performance android tablet offerings coming through.


Dave.



On 29/01/12 15:00, Dave Fisher wrote:

I'm picking up this thread again, because my needs have evolved and

are now very close to Jim Jackson's original concerns, i.e. I now

want/need to read larger page-sized ebooks that only come in PDF

format and don't really convert very well to epub or mobi.


I don't think I've ever used a hand-held gadget more often than I use

my Kindle, but it doesn't really cut the mustard for technical books

where you need to read a paragraph, glance at a sidebar/footnote and

see an illustration or code sample in the same view.


The larger-sized Kindle DX is not for sale in the UK and I really

cannot justify the cost of an iPad or high-spec Android fondleslab ...

so I've been considering the possibilities of rooting or completely

gutting a budget android slab (max GBP 180, preferably nearer GBP

100).


I'm not really bothered about ultra-responsive, capacitive, touch,

since I'm not planning to use it as a general-purpose computing UI,

and if I changed my mind I'd probably want to hook it up to a keyboard

anyway.


Nor do I envisage using many/any apps from the Android market.


I've seen some documentation on how to root one or two of the cheapo

android slabs, but I'm wondering if anyone on this list has come

across instances of people running true Linux distros on them?


All I've seen is comments to the effect that getting/configuring the

drivers for esoteric telecoms chippery is probably hard/fiddly.


Since tablets in the category I'm thinking of are wifi only, I'm

guessing at least some of them must use mainstream and well-supported

chips.


So, anyone seen a mainstream Linux distro installed on a budget fondleslab?


Dave


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