Comments on: Do we really want e-ink devices? http://www.techusers.org/2007/09/13/do-we-really-want-e-ink-devices/ Tech from an e-booker's point of view Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:39:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Ellen Hage http://www.techusers.org/2007/09/13/do-we-really-want-e-ink-devices/comment-page-1/#comment-284 Ellen Hage Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:05:07 +0000 http://techusers.org/2007/09/13/do-we-really-want-e-ink-devices/#comment-284 Irwin, Heath is right. Andy's site has the best information around for the DT375. The wireless card I use is the ambicom CF wireless. Ellen Irwin,

Heath is right. Andy’s site has the best information around for the DT375. The wireless card I use is the ambicom CF wireless.

Ellen

]]> By: Heath Brown http://www.techusers.org/2007/09/13/do-we-really-want-e-ink-devices/comment-page-1/#comment-283 Heath Brown Sun, 16 Sep 2007 03:39:24 +0000 http://techusers.org/2007/09/13/do-we-really-want-e-ink-devices/#comment-283 The best place in the world to get help with a DT375 is on http://www.dt375.com I've got one too and I absolutely love it. There are quite a few pcmcia cards Wireless network cards that work for it but there is a certain cisco model that the machine has drivers already installed for. Find out more at the website above. The best place in the world to get help with a DT375 is on http://www.dt375.com

I’ve got one too and I absolutely love it. There are quite a few pcmcia cards Wireless network cards that work for it but there is a certain cisco model that the machine has drivers already installed for. Find out more at the website above.

]]> By: Ellen Hage http://www.techusers.org/2007/09/13/do-we-really-want-e-ink-devices/comment-page-1/#comment-282 Ellen Hage Sun, 16 Sep 2007 01:41:36 +0000 http://techusers.org/2007/09/13/do-we-really-want-e-ink-devices/#comment-282 <blockquote>This is a comment requesting info on the DT375 which you have written much about!I would like to use the USB port on the 375 and you have indicated that you havefound the drivers! I would appreciate any info you have.You also indicated that you have a wireless card that works-what is the type and model number of this car? I hve bought the DT375 mainly for use as an eBook reader and am fighting my waythrough activating the MS READER. Any help on the aforementioned items would be gratefully appreciated. ThanksIrv</blockquote> Will send file Ellen

This is a comment requesting info on the DT375 which you have written much about!I would like to use the USB port on the 375 and you have indicated that you havefound the drivers! I would appreciate any info you have.You also indicated that you have a wireless card that works-what is the type and model number of this car?
I hve bought the DT375 mainly for use as an eBook reader and am fighting my waythrough activating the MS READER.
Any help on the aforementioned items would be gratefully appreciated.
ThanksIrv

Will send file

Ellen

]]> By: IRWIN BROOKS http://www.techusers.org/2007/09/13/do-we-really-want-e-ink-devices/comment-page-1/#comment-281 IRWIN BROOKS Sun, 16 Sep 2007 01:02:30 +0000 http://techusers.org/2007/09/13/do-we-really-want-e-ink-devices/#comment-281 This is a comment requesting info on the DT375 which you have written much about! I would like to use the USB port on the 375 and you have indicated that you have found the drivers! I would appreciate any info you have. You also indicated that you have a wireless card that works-what is the type and model number of this car? I hve bought the DT375 mainly for use as an eBook reader and am fighting my way through activating the MS READER. Any help on the aforementioned items would be gratefully appreciated. Thanks Irv This is a comment requesting info on the DT375 which you have written much about!
I would like to use the USB port on the 375 and you have indicated that you have
found the drivers! I would appreciate any info you have.
You also indicated that you have a wireless card that works-what is the type and model number of this car?

I hve bought the DT375 mainly for use as an eBook reader and am fighting my way
through activating the MS READER.

Any help on the aforementioned items would be gratefully appreciated.

Thanks
Irv

]]> By: IRWIN BROOKS http://www.techusers.org/2007/09/13/do-we-really-want-e-ink-devices/comment-page-1/#comment-280 IRWIN BROOKS Sun, 16 Sep 2007 00:53:53 +0000 http://techusers.org/2007/09/13/do-we-really-want-e-ink-devices/#comment-280 <blockquote>Jorgen, I believe that e-books will become popular. Especially as Baby Boomers age, and I think that children of Boomers (Boomer Echo?)will embrace it in time. That’s when the manufacturers and Publishers will get even more greedy. Look at the Ipod. It is still expensive, yet people find the money to buy them. So why lower the price? Then again there are a lot of cheap mp3 players around now. So maybe there will be cheap almost disposable readers in the future. When I say normal I mean mid to late tech adopters. Believe it or not there are still people who don’t have a mp3 player, let alone an iPod. They are still hanging on to their 8 track tapes Ellen </blockquote>

Jorgen,
I believe that e-books will become popular. Especially as Baby Boomers age, and I think that children of Boomers (Boomer Echo?)will embrace it in time. That’s when the manufacturers and Publishers will get even more greedy. Look at the Ipod. It is still expensive, yet people find the money to buy them. So why lower the price? Then again there are a lot of cheap mp3 players around now. So maybe there will be cheap almost disposable readers in the future. When I say normal I mean mid to late tech adopters. Believe it or not there are still people who don’t have a mp3 player, let alone an iPod. They are still hanging on to their 8 track tapes
Ellen

]]> By: Dhamu http://www.techusers.org/2007/09/13/do-we-really-want-e-ink-devices/comment-page-1/#comment-279 Dhamu Sat, 15 Sep 2007 22:06:34 +0000 http://techusers.org/2007/09/13/do-we-really-want-e-ink-devices/#comment-279 <i>I have my doubts about regular people getting their hands on the OLPC laptop.</i> • The screen can, and likely will, be licensed to commercial companies for other products. Imagine an eBookwise-styled unit with OLPC screen. In B&W mode it out-eInks eInk, yet it also has lighting, color, even video. And it should meet the $100 price the OLPC laptop won't for some time, since you can get tablet-style portable DVD players for that price, and this is much the same thing with a different screen that happens to be both better and cheaper. But I also expect OLPC laptop clones, if not true OLPC laptops, to be available to the public some time next year, since the government route isn't working well for OLPC. I have my doubts about regular people getting their hands on the OLPC laptop. • The screen can, and likely will, be licensed to commercial companies for other products. Imagine an eBookwise-styled unit with OLPC screen. In B&W mode it out-eInks eInk, yet it also has lighting, color, even video. And it should meet the $100 price the OLPC laptop won’t for some time, since you can get tablet-style portable DVD players for that price, and this is much the same thing with a different screen that happens to be both better and cheaper. But I also expect OLPC laptop clones, if not true OLPC laptops, to be available to the public some time next year, since the government route isn’t working well for OLPC.

]]> By: Ellen Hage http://www.techusers.org/2007/09/13/do-we-really-want-e-ink-devices/comment-page-1/#comment-278 Ellen Hage Sat, 15 Sep 2007 21:34:31 +0000 http://techusers.org/2007/09/13/do-we-really-want-e-ink-devices/#comment-278 Jorgen, I believe that e-books will become popular. Especially as Baby Boomers age, and I think that children of Boomers (Boomer Echo?)will embrace it in time. That's when the manufacturers and Publishers will get even more greedy. Look at the Ipod. It is still expensive, yet people find the money to buy them. So why lower the price? Then again there are a lot of cheap mp3 players around now. So maybe there will be cheap almost disposable readers in the future. When I say normal I mean mid to late tech adopters. Believe it or not there are still people who don't have a mp3 player, let alone an iPod. They are still hanging on to their 8 track tapes :) Ellen Jorgen,

I believe that e-books will become popular. Especially as Baby Boomers age, and I think that children of Boomers (Boomer Echo?)will embrace it in time. That’s when the manufacturers and Publishers will get even more greedy. Look at the Ipod. It is still expensive, yet people find the money to buy them. So why lower the price? Then again there are a lot of cheap mp3 players around now. So maybe there will be cheap almost disposable readers in the future. When I say normal I mean mid to late tech adopters. Believe it or not there are still people who don’t have a mp3 player, let alone an iPod. They are still hanging on to their 8 track tapes :)

Ellen

]]> By: jorgen http://www.techusers.org/2007/09/13/do-we-really-want-e-ink-devices/comment-page-1/#comment-277 jorgen Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:00:42 +0000 http://techusers.org/2007/09/13/do-we-really-want-e-ink-devices/#comment-277 Ellen, if what you said to me is correct, then ebooks are never going to become popular. "Normal" people (if such exist) will have to buy Sony books if they buy a Sony reader (and Mobi books if buying a Kindle) and will expect a hefty discount on both reader and books; they know that their Sony books will stop being readable, if they change to non-Sony hardware. Normal people are anyway not likely to buy ebooks, if they have to spend more than $100 on a reader. And, probably needless to say, only very few people are going to read books on their computer. Ellen, if what you said to me is correct, then ebooks are never going to become popular. “Normal” people (if such exist) will have to buy Sony books if they buy a Sony reader (and Mobi books if buying a Kindle) and will expect a hefty discount on both reader and books; they know that their Sony books will stop being readable, if they change to non-Sony hardware. Normal people are anyway not likely to buy ebooks, if they have to spend more than $100 on a reader. And, probably needless to say, only very few people are going to read books on their computer.

]]> By: Ellen Hage http://www.techusers.org/2007/09/13/do-we-really-want-e-ink-devices/comment-page-1/#comment-276 Ellen Hage Sat, 15 Sep 2007 00:33:20 +0000 http://techusers.org/2007/09/13/do-we-really-want-e-ink-devices/#comment-276 <blockquote>I agree as well. The main benefit for me is having a perfectly lit page everywhere (barring overly bright or sunlit places). I do much of my recreational reading on my Pocket PC at night in bed. What a pleasure it is to not need to have an external light and then have to position myself in relation to it. I’m so hooked on e-books, I have skipped paper tomes I wanted to read for the electronic competition. This is EASY people…make an e-ink device with either a backlight or perimeter lighting. Don’t say it can’t, because it can be done! p.s. A smart vendor would license several formats. Then make it so it reads in many formats and outputs to the format you prefer. P.P.S. Okay, you have to tell me what WP Plug-in does this realtime preview, wow, that’s cool!</blockquote> The plug in for the comment preview is "Live Comment Preview" and I also have "Sexy Comments" Plugin Ellen

I agree as well. The main benefit for me is having a perfectly lit page everywhere (barring overly bright or sunlit places). I do much of my recreational reading on my Pocket PC at night in bed. What a pleasure it is to not need to have an external light and then have to position myself in relation to it. I’m so hooked on e-books, I have skipped paper tomes I wanted to read for the electronic competition. This is EASY people…make an e-ink device with either a backlight or perimeter lighting. Don’t say it can’t, because it can be done! p.s. A smart vendor would license several formats. Then make it so it reads in many formats and outputs to the format you prefer. P.P.S. Okay, you have to tell me what WP Plug-in does this realtime preview, wow, that’s cool!

The plug in for the comment preview is “Live Comment Preview” and I also have “Sexy Comments” Plugin

Ellen

]]> By: Ellen Hage http://www.techusers.org/2007/09/13/do-we-really-want-e-ink-devices/comment-page-1/#comment-275 Ellen Hage Sat, 15 Sep 2007 00:26:05 +0000 http://techusers.org/2007/09/13/do-we-really-want-e-ink-devices/#comment-275 <blockquote>I would love to have an eInk reader like the Sony Reader (alas not for sale in Spain as far as I can see), but won’t pay more than something like $50-100 for it. If it has DRM, it should be subsidized like mobile phones. But I am happy to continue with my PDAs as I have read ebooks on small screens since the early 90ies (Psion 3a).</blockquote> If subsidized like cell phones, then wouldn't that tie us to one vendor for a specific amount of time, at least in part. Such as we have to buy x number of books to fulfill the contract? Even then I doubt if we see prices at $50-$100 for quite awhile if ever. Ellen

I would love to have an eInk reader like the Sony Reader (alas not for sale in Spain as far as I can see), but won’t pay more than something like $50-100 for it. If it has DRM, it should be subsidized like mobile phones. But I am happy to continue with my PDAs as I have read ebooks on small screens since the early 90ies (Psion 3a).

If subsidized like cell phones, then wouldn’t that tie us to one vendor for a specific amount of time, at least in part. Such as we have to buy x number of books to fulfill the contract? Even then I doubt if we see prices at $50-$100 for quite awhile if ever.

Ellen

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