Re: [iPAQ] e-book readers

I'm interested. I've been looking at a number of possibilities that
are e-book like, but focus more on provide a portable way to read
net-based stuff.

The device I'm dreaming up would allow someone like us, who have to
absorb large amounts of net-based information, to take it to the sofa,
the car, or the john :)
It would:
1. Present at a minimum of html, pdf, and common word processor
including docs such as WordPerfect and Word.
2. Be handheld - no larger than an Etch-a-Sketch, but it could be an
ipaq size display.
3. It would have built-in text to speech capability like Festival
delivers on Linux. That way I could use it like an book on tape by
plugging one of those cassette adapters into the car radio and a
feeding the audio to it from a jack on the PDA.
4. It would have control buttons
5. I would be capable of jacking into my desktop to get this
information and ideally via a network and modem interface directly
from the net.
6. If it could pull down an e-book that would be great, too. I'm
personally just not too hot on all those proprietary schemes being
pushed. Also, there isn't a standard yet. I'm not dead against this
part of it, just not too gung-ho about the proprietary part.

----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Houghton <mike@idle.org>
To: <handhelds@handhelds.org>
Cc: <c>
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 7:29 AM
Subject: [iPAQ] e-book readers

>
> Folks,
>
> I'm bashing around with some ideas on e-book software for PDAs. Is
anyone
> else, who would care to co-ordinate efforts?
>
> I've got enough to fill out a discussion page on the Wiki somewhere,
but if
> someone is already working on such stuff, let me know.
>
> Mike
>
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Received on Mon Oct 30 14:11:04 2000