Comments on: New Adobe reader is a yawner to Wiley exec Joe Wikert—more interested in better e-book gizmos http://www.teleread.com/drm/new-adobe-reader-is-a-yawner-to-wiley-exec-joe-wikert-more-interested-in-better-e-book-gizmos/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:28:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Roland Rohde http://www.teleread.com/drm/new-adobe-reader-is-a-yawner-to-wiley-exec-joe-wikert-more-interested-in-better-e-book-gizmos/comment-page-1/#comment-106575 Roland Rohde Wed, 01 Nov 2006 12:18:55 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=5728#comment-106575 I don't know where else to put this, so i'll put it here... iRex just finally came out and admitted that "the hardware of the iRex Iliad is not made for Suspend to Ram or Flash". This statement is about the best news for Sony there can be since it rules out the only serious competition they could have got at the moment. Why this piece of Tech every PDa today uses is beyond the reach of the newest high-tech eink reader from Eindhoven is just weird... The Iliad may still be interesting for some applications, but as an ebook reader it has just lost one of it's main strenghts... Apart from thte fact that battery life can never reach the high standard the Sony Reader and the Hanlin V8 ofer out of the box, even with a lot of tweaking, ease of use is also a connected issue here. Since you will have to shutdown the device every time you stop reading and boot it up again (wait around 40 secs to get finished) when you want to resume, calling it "paper-like" is a bad joke. I've been going through the routine for a few months now and I can tell you that it doesn't cease to annoy... Note-Taking will probably suffer from the same disadvantages since you probably won't like to wait for almost a minute to quickly jost something down if you have a piece of paper lying nearby that is ready to go as soon as you have found the pen. To get more information, visit the iRex forums here: http://forum.irexnet.com/viewtopic.php?t=611 or the Mobileread forums here: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8372 and here: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8351&page=1 (last post on the first page was the start of it all) I don’t know where else to put this, so i’ll put it here…

iRex just finally came out and admitted that “the hardware of the iRex Iliad is not made for Suspend to Ram or Flash”.

This statement is about the best news for Sony there can be since it rules out the only serious competition they could have got at the moment. Why this piece of Tech every PDa today uses is beyond the reach of the newest high-tech eink reader from Eindhoven is just weird…
The Iliad may still be interesting for some applications, but as an ebook reader it has just lost one of it’s main strenghts…
Apart from thte fact that battery life can never reach the high standard the Sony Reader and the Hanlin V8 ofer out of the box, even with a lot of tweaking, ease of use is also a connected issue here. Since you will have to shutdown the device every time you stop reading and boot it up again (wait around 40 secs to get finished) when you want to resume, calling it “paper-like” is a bad joke.

I’ve been going through the routine for a few months now and I can tell you that it doesn’t cease to annoy…
Note-Taking will probably suffer from the same disadvantages since you probably won’t like to wait for almost a minute to quickly jost something down if you have a piece of paper lying nearby that is ready to go as soon as you have found the pen.

To get more information, visit the iRex forums here:
http://forum.irexnet.com/viewtopic.php?t=611

or the Mobileread forums here:
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8372

and here:

http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8351&page=1
(last post on the first page was the start of it all)

]]> By: David Rothman http://www.teleread.com/drm/new-adobe-reader-is-a-yawner-to-wiley-exec-joe-wikert-more-interested-in-better-e-book-gizmos/comment-page-1/#comment-106000 David Rothman Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:09:10 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=5728#comment-106000 As usual, Roland, thanks for your perspective. I, too, can get word-wrapping PDF via the right software on my handheld--my Palm TX--but it is not nearly as pleasant an experience as reading with a born-to-reflow format. Perhaps you were hinting of that when you talked about file size. Also, the software involved at my end is Documents to Go, which, last I knew, didn't work with Adobe DRM. PalmPDF also has its drawbacks. In fairness to Adobe, PDA and Mac versions of Digital Editions will be on the way--but dotReader will be out long before then, so you can see for yourself the product in action on your PDA. As for the iLiad, it's a shame that iRex has been disappointing. Maybe in the future this will change. Fingers crossed. Thanks, David As usual, Roland, thanks for your perspective. I, too, can get word-wrapping PDF via the right software on my handheld–my Palm TX–but it is not nearly as pleasant an experience as reading with a born-to-reflow format. Perhaps you were hinting of that when you talked about file size. Also, the software involved at my end is Documents to Go, which, last I knew, didn’t work with Adobe DRM. PalmPDF also has its drawbacks.

In fairness to Adobe, PDA and Mac versions of Digital Editions will be on the way–but dotReader will be out long before then, so you can see for yourself the product in action on your PDA. As for the iLiad, it’s a shame that iRex has been disappointing. Maybe in the future this will change. Fingers crossed.

Thanks,
David

]]> By: Roland Rohde http://www.teleread.com/drm/new-adobe-reader-is-a-yawner-to-wiley-exec-joe-wikert-more-interested-in-better-e-book-gizmos/comment-page-1/#comment-105986 Roland Rohde Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:06:51 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=5728#comment-105986 Just one small correction... If you own a Windows PDA (PocketPC) then you can have reflowable PDF files. They work quite well, but the File-size is not optimal of course, expecially if you want more than a short story... The new Adobe software we are talking about puzzles me a bit, since it's desktop software, and I have absolutely zero need for another program that can display text on my PC-Monitor... Working well there is easy, it's the mobile implementation that's interesting...if they start showing off apps that can do a good job of displaying a wide variety of ebooks on my Iliad...then i'll be interested... Just one small correction…

If you own a Windows PDA (PocketPC) then you can have reflowable PDF files. They work quite well, but the File-size is not optimal of course, expecially if you want more than a short story…

The new Adobe software we are talking about puzzles me a bit, since it’s desktop software, and I have absolutely zero need for another program that can display text on my PC-Monitor…
Working well there is easy, it’s the mobile implementation that’s interesting…if they start showing off apps that can do a good job of displaying a wide variety of ebooks on my Iliad…then i’ll be interested…

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