Comments on: Baen Bar’s E Ink-based reader might have ‘good feel’ if it’s like the STAReBOOK

By: Roland Rohde

Roland Rohde — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:46:03 +0000

My initial STAReBOOK review is up now.

To give you the short-short version:

The device is great, the firmware is great but the .stk format and supplied creation tools are still severely lacking.
If they can get that part going, then they might just have a winner on their hands.

Go here for the review. There is no info on battery-life and durability/long-term ergonomics yet, but there should be some interesting facts for everybody.

http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9481

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New wave of e-book readers / Branko’s Weblog — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:19:06 +0000

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By: Branko Collin

Branko Collin — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:16:20 +0000

Perhaps I misread what you wrote, but to me it sounded like: Bookeen is going with Pepsi’s Coca Cola.

By: David Rothman

David Rothman — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:40:43 +0000

But E Ink’s exact technology isn’t quite the same as Nemoptic’s. Granted, they’re both e-paper technology, but within that, they’d be subset technologies since they don’t work exactly the same. Just my take, Branko. You’re welcome to your own. I’d welcome other readers’ thoughts on this as well. Thanks. David

By: Branko Collin

Branko Collin — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:09:46 +0000

“Nemoptic display technology, by the way, is one of the technologies that Bookeen has mentioned as a possibility for the E Ink devices it designs.”

E Ink is a brand, just like Nemoptic. You can use one or another, but not one as another. The generic term for such display technologies is e-paper.