Another ebook linkfest:
- TeleRead, which I’ve just subscribed to, has a bunch of interesting content surrounding the topic of ebooks.
- A first look at the Irex Iliad
- Answers to readers’ questions about the Iliad
Contrary to some rumourmilling sites, it looks like the powerhog on the Iliad is the WiFi; when it isn’t used, it has something approaching a 10,000 page-turn battery life. At somewhere between 400 and 650 Euros (rumourmill prices) it won’t be cheap; however, I downloaded 50 articles about architectures and languages for robotic control. It would be amazing to be able to sync those to an ebook reader and start reading, instead of printing, annotating, and then transcribing notes elsewhere.
Unrelated were some pointers to a $150 Linux-based PC produced by YellowSheepRiver. Cute.