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Re: E-reader: expand capabilit?

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On Fri, 21 Mar 2014, Unknown wrote:

> Going to a remote, isolated location for a few weeks, may be a good reason
> to buy an e-reader. But since e-readers are said to actually be
> linux/android computers, a linux user would not want to be restricted
> to using the e-reader for reading text.
>
> Where's the 'entry point' for "jailbreaking" an e-reader?
>
> An essential is that, you need to get into a loop:
> <read what's in the file-dir>
> <write to the file-dir>.
>
> Currently I'm interested in the make: kobo;
> but the principles should be the same for all brands?
>
> Thanks for any info.
>
>
My Kobo Mini, that I bought last June for $45 Canadian on sale, it does 
wifi and includes a browser. Some other things too, but oddly, it's kind 
of hidden behind the menu, the main intent is to read books.

It's cumbersome to browse with, the screen is small enough that i have 
problems hitting the right key.  But also, it uses "e-paper" or whatever, 
so the update of the screen is very sluggish.  That's the tradeoff, it has 
low power but it won't go fast.  I guess the browser shows pictures, I 
can't remember, but it's in shades of grey.

The year before, I got a Blackberry Playbook because I decided if I was 
spending about $125 I should spend some more and get a full tablet. That 
works fine, and while you have to "buy apps" from their store, there is 
quite a variation.  Not that what it came with needed that much more.

I found the Playbook good for all kinds of things, and kind of heavy for 
reading novels, I'd fall asleep and the falling tablet would wake me up. 
The battery life is good, but not when I'm reading for hours, or falling 
asleep with it on.

So I bought the ebook reader, once it got cheap.  The more there is a move 
away from real books, the more likely these will become commonplace, 
useful as ebook readers, but at best a "making do" for other things.

You can now get full blow tablets, of varying degree, starting at a 
hundred dollars, so that seems to be the future for that.

   Michael

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E-reader: expand capabilit? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2014-03-21 07:53 +0000
  Re: E-reader: expand capabilit? Joe Beanfish <joebeanfish@nospam.duh> - 2014-03-21 13:29 +0000
  Re: E-reader: expand capabilit? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-03-21 15:47 -0400

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