Posted on February 7, 2008 by switch11
Really interesting post on the Eeeph Forum (courtesy member vicicasas) showing the Asus Eee PC being used as an ebook reader a la Amazon’s Kindle. That got me started.
In “Amazon Kindle” mode. FBReader running fullscreen and rotated, with the Next Page key assigned to both the spacebar and the “1″ key, depending on where my [...]
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Posted on January 18, 2008 by switch11
From the forums -
Update courtesy Richard (comment below): I just bought a PQI 8 GB SDHC card and the Kindle recognized it without a problem. I’ve tranferred books to it and they work perfectly.
Customer Support - confirmed that 4GB SD cards have been tested.
A user has been using a 8GB SD card without issues.
Another user [...]
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Posted on January 18, 2008 by switch11
The best way that people have found is by using the MobiPocket Creator - MobiPocket Creator - a FREE Mobi-Pocket conversion software from Mobipocket.com.
Also, in addition to PDF you can easily convert Word, HTML, and .txt for the Kindle. If you do not use the link above and go to the MobiPocket Software page, then [...]
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Posted on January 18, 2008 by switch11
Manufacturer
Amazon.com
Carrier
Sprint
Available
November 19, 2007
Screen
600×800 px,
167 ppi resolution,
15cm diagonal,
19.1 × 13.5 cm,
4-level grayscale
Electronic paper,
LCD side scroller.
Operating system
Linux (2.6.10 kernel). The device runs on a modified version of Linux based on the 2.6.10 kernel.
Input
QWERTY keyboard,
select wheel,
next/prev/back buttons.
CPU
Intel PXA255.
Memory
64 MB RAM,
256 MB (180 MB available) internal storage,
SD expansion slot.
Complete back up archive of all purchased material archived [...]
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