Category Archives: Nokia 770

Reading devices I have known

A couple of days ago, someone suggested David write a retrospective about the different e-reading devices he had used through the years. It seemed like a marvelous idea to me, and there certainly is room for more than one such article.
So here is mine.
1. Palm IIIe
I had long wanted a Palm Pilot, ever since [...] Continue reading

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Review: Fictionwise, Overdrive e-book lending libraries

One idea that libraries have been experimenting with for a while is lending a collection of e-books under the same kind of restrictions as paper books—no more than one patron using a given “copy” at one time, each copy being “returned” after a set checkout period. (For a while, eReader was owned by a [...] Continue reading

Posted in Chris Meadows, DRM, Fictionwise, Libraries, Library of the Future, Mobipocket, Nokia 770, Uncategorized, books, e-book, e-book ergonomics, e-books, e-books and other digipubs, ebooks, iPhone and Touch iPod, iPod Touch, library | Leave a comment

Open Letter to Random House

Note: This letter will be printed out and mailed to Random House as soon as I am satisfied with it (and can find out to whom it should be directed). Any suggestions for improvement will be appreciated.
Dear [person at Random House]:
Provoked by Packaging
I am writing to express my extreme displeasure with one of your [...] Continue reading

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Garnet 5 Virtual Machine (and eReader) for Nokia Tablets

Today I looked at a Palm emulator for my Nokia 770, with the express intent of using it to run an eReader client. My overall verdict: mixed, but promising.
The screenshots were captured using VNC from my Windows box. Click on them to see the full-sized view.
It started with a problem.
My first PDA, way back in [...] Continue reading

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Heating up: Fuss over Kindle vs. iPhone for e-reading

How big a screen do you need to read E, especially e-books, and what does this mean in the escalating Kindle-vs.-iPhone debate?
The larger-display faction: My wife, a baby boomer like me, favors big fonts. When Carly is in the mood for an e-book, she hates the idea of reading off a PDA-sized screen such [...] Continue reading

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Nokia to open source developers: Learn biz—including DRM

Hmm. Maybe Nokia has things a bit backwards. Business should be unlearning DRM, so that I can read best-sellers on my Nokia 770.
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How to read e-books on the Asus Eee PC or other subnotes with small screens

How to live with Adobe PDF on small-screen devices like the Asus Eee PC?
Can you tweak the software so the view is more booklike—using the portrait mode—hen you hold the Eee as shown in the photo below?
And what about the far-more usable, as I see it, FBReader?
Geeks.com has come up with [...] Continue reading

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