Comments on: Browsing the Alex eReader DS-10 manual http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/browsing-the-alex-ereader-ds-10-manual/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:54:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Johnny http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/browsing-the-alex-ereader-ds-10-manual/comment-page-1/#comment-1164433 Johnny Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:30:51 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=39589#comment-1164433 To Everyone: Spring has since launched the device, and it is pretty great. I have one and I love it(make sure you get black). It already annotates, with links to media, voice recordings, and highlighting. Pdfs look alright on the device, but the text is small. Epubs are way better and have the same DRM features from websites like e-books, and the device has adobe live-id. So, it has enough on it's own to be a great, lightweight e-reader with annotation. Beyond that, I heard an SDK is coming out later this year for the Alex. That alone makes it a lot more than just "another droid device". I already want to develop my own programs on this platform, just because I don't think you can get around the quality and performance of E-ink displays. Has anyone on here seen how bad the ipad is? It's freakin heavy too. The alex is like 1/3 the weight and you can actually read books on it. The ipad was unreasonably heavy, and I imagine if the Alex added a bit of weight and an amoled screen. Bottom line, I love my alex and it really focuses on Epub format, and I have to tell you E-Pub is way better and you can buy books from more places... Something My Kindle didn't do(R.I.P. it died a week ago). One thing about the Alex is that I haven't found a way to copy my stuff from amazon yet, but I heard there are sites out there taking the mobi files to epub. Anyone know any of those. To Everyone:

Spring has since launched the device, and it is pretty great. I have one and I love it(make sure you get black). It already annotates, with links to media, voice recordings, and highlighting. Pdfs look alright on the device, but the text is small. Epubs are way better and have the same DRM features from websites like e-books, and the device has adobe live-id. So, it has enough on it’s own to be a great, lightweight e-reader with annotation.

Beyond that, I heard an SDK is coming out later this year for the Alex. That alone makes it a lot more than just “another droid device”. I already want to develop my own programs on this platform, just because I don’t think you can get around the quality and performance of E-ink displays.

Has anyone on here seen how bad the ipad is? It’s freakin heavy too. The alex is like 1/3 the weight and you can actually read books on it. The ipad was unreasonably heavy, and I imagine if the Alex added a bit of weight and an amoled screen.

Bottom line, I love my alex and it really focuses on Epub format, and I have to tell you E-Pub is way better and you can buy books from more places… Something My Kindle didn’t do(R.I.P. it died a week ago).

One thing about the Alex is that I haven’t found a way to copy my stuff from amazon yet, but I heard there are sites out there taking the mobi files to epub. Anyone know any of those.

]]> By: Nate the great http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/browsing-the-alex-ereader-ds-10-manual/comment-page-1/#comment-1164257 Nate the great Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:44:23 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=39589#comment-1164257 Paul, the link should lead here: http://ireaderreview.com/2010/03/08/browsing-the-alex-ereader-ds-10-manual/ Paul, the link should lead here:
http://ireaderreview.com/2010/03/08/browsing-the-alex-ereader-ds-10-manual/

]]> By: Nate the great http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/browsing-the-alex-ereader-ds-10-manual/comment-page-1/#comment-1159896 Nate the great Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:59:59 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=39589#comment-1159896 Paul, that link leads here. Paul, that link leads here.

]]> By: Lindsey http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/browsing-the-alex-ereader-ds-10-manual/comment-page-1/#comment-1159849 Lindsey Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:41:13 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=39589#comment-1159849 As much as I am looking forward to buying the Alex if it is ever actually released, I am getting sick of articles giving the Alex more credit than it deserves. All of the "features" referred to (and about 90% of the user manual) are standard Android features--and not even all standard Android features, because certain capabilities (namely Google apps like the Android Market and 3G) appear to have been stripped out. On the other hand, there are very, very few Alex-original features in the manual, or information about the eink display and book capabilities--there's not a mention of bookmarks or annotations in that entire manual, which is really the information those of us thinking about purchasing the device need to know. As much as I am looking forward to buying the Alex if it is ever actually released, I am getting sick of articles giving the Alex more credit than it deserves. All of the “features” referred to (and about 90% of the user manual) are standard Android features–and not even all standard Android features, because certain capabilities (namely Google apps like the Android Market and 3G) appear to have been stripped out.

On the other hand, there are very, very few Alex-original features in the manual, or information about the eink display and book capabilities–there’s not a mention of bookmarks or annotations in that entire manual, which is really the information those of us thinking about purchasing the device need to know.

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