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    1. How I Learned to Love Reading Online Thursday, February 21, 2008 Beatley Library Simmons College
    2. Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog , Caspar David Friedrich, 1818, PD
    3. Newsweek cover from Nov. 27, 2007
    4. From lawgeek’s flickr account ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdawg/1300241735/ ), last accessed 2/18/08
    5. Kindle details
      • $399 for device
      • 10.3 ounces
      • 6 inch display
      • Holds “hundreds” of books
      • Wireless connection using 3G network
      • Supports MOBI, Microsoft Word, HTML, TXT, PRC and image files
      • Newspapers, magazines, blogs, & books
      • Doesn’t require a computer
      • Keyboard
      • Not backlit
      • OED loaded
      • Wikipedia
      • $.10 for wireless conversion
      • PDF??
    6. Amazon.com’s Kindle storefront ( http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/133141011 ), last accessed 2/17/08
    7. Sony Stats
      • PRS-500 series
      • $299 for device
      • 9 ounces
      • 6 inch display
      • Internal memory holds up to 80 books
      • Connects to computer via UPB
      • BBeB Book , TXT, RTF, PDF*, Microsoft Word
      • Not backlit
      • No keyboard
      • Bookmarks
      • Switch Screen orientation
      *PDF can be created using Acrobat Standard or need to be unencrypted
    8. Ebookstore.sony.com, last accessed 2/17/08
    9. Fictionwise & eBookwise
      • eBookwise-1150
      • $110 plus shipping
      • 18 ounces
      • Screen the size of a paperback
      • Backlit screen
      • Memory: 8MB internal flash (10 books)
      • Can add up to 128MB card (200 books)
      • Rechargeable battery
      • Rocketbook , TXT, RTF, HTML, & Microsoft Word
      • Does not support PDF
      Image from http:www.ebookwise.com, last accessed 2/17/08
    10.  
    11. Other readers available
      • UBIT’s walkbook
      • Supports: PDF, TXT, DOC, HTML, MP3, WOL and image files
      • $310
      • Istanbul, Turkey
      • Bookeen’s Cybook
      • Supports: PDF, TXT, HTML, PDB, Mobi, MP3 and image files
      • $350
      • iRex Iliad
      • Supports: PDF / HTML / TXT / JPG / BMP/ PNG
      • $699
      • 8.1” screen
    12. Other “readers”? Image from Kimbooktu ( http://kimbooktu.wordpress.com/2008/02/13/bookish-wallpaper-ii/ ), last accessed 2/17/08
    13. iphone 3.5 inch screen 5 hour battery life? Not technically an ebook devices, but . . . Textonphone.com Image from http://www.apple.com , last accessed 2/17/08
    14. Gphone
      • Big question mark
      • No delivery date
      • Software only
      • Ebook capabilities?
      Image from Feb 18, 2008 entry at http://www.google-phone.com/ , last accessed 2/17/08
    15. OLPC From OLPC’s site (http://laptop.org)
    16. Other Mini PCs
      • Kojinsha E8 subnotebook
      • Windows XP
      • AMD Goede LX800 processor
      • 512MB of memory
      • Touch screen (1024x600 resolution)
      • Memory card slot
      • USB port
      • 3.5 hours of continuous use time
      • Between $529 and $635
      • EEE PC from Asus
      • Linux operating system
      • 900 MHz Intel Mobile CPU
      • 4 GB of solid state memory.
      • 7-inch wide color LCD with an 800 x 480-pixel resolution
      • Memory card slot
      • 3 USB 2.0 ports
      • 3.5 hours of continuous use time
      • $400 at Amazon.com
      • Selection of colors: White, Black, Pink, Blue, & Green
      http://www.arbus.com . Last accessed 2/19/08 http://aving.net/usa/news/default.asp , last accessed 2/19/08
    17. Polymer Vision’s Readius Image from 1/22/09 Wired blogs( http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/01/readius-ebook-p.html_ , last accessed 2/17/08
    18. Polymer Vision’s Readius
      • Good News
      • Cell phone & ebook reader
      • 5” Flexible screen
      • Download content wihtout USB
      • Bad News
      • Tri-band phone
      • For European market only
      • Release?
    19. Where’s the content? Image from http://www.lightupyourworld.nl/en/index_en.html , last accessed 2/17/08
    20. http://books.google.com , last accessed 2/17/08
    21. http://search.live.com , last accessed 2/17/08
    22. http://www.archive.org/details/texts , last accessed 2/17/08
    23. http://www.gutenberg.org/ , last accessed 2/17/08
    24.  
    25.  
    26. http://www.dailylit.com/ , last accessed 2/17/08
    27. http://www.the-future-of-ideas.com http://www2.oprah.com http://craphound.com/down/

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