The main irritant with the thing is that all files have to be translated into its native (proprietary) format before it can even display them. There are two ways to do this.
The easiest way is to use the provided printer driver, and simply "print" any document you can open on your system to the Librie device itself. The problem with this method is that when you create Librie documents this way, many of the built-in features of the device, such as zoom in/out, footnotes, etc., are not accessible from the document.
The slightly more obnoxiously difficult way to get documents onto the reader is to manually convert each file using one of a number of hax0red utilities that will actually convert your text document into Librie format. This gives you access to all the great features like dictionary lookup, the aforementioned footnotes and zooming in/out, etc.
Americanization and hax0ring of this thing is still kind of a work in progress. I read about them last year when they were released and was very disappointed to find out about the restrictive DRM that came with them. After I read recently that people had figured out how to get non-encumbered files onto them, I knew it was time to act!
They actually run Linux as their operating system, so I figure it's only a matter of time. Work is already progressing towards booting a custom firmware from the memory card.
The easiest way is to use the provided printer driver, and simply "print" any document you can open on your system to the Librie device itself. The problem with this method is that when you create Librie documents this way, many of the built-in features of the device, such as zoom in/out, footnotes, etc., are not accessible from the document.
The slightly more obnoxiously difficult way to get documents onto the reader is to manually convert each file using one of a number of hax0red utilities that will actually convert your text document into Librie format. This gives you access to all the great features like dictionary lookup, the aforementioned footnotes and zooming in/out, etc.
Americanization and hax0ring of this thing is still kind of a work in progress. I read about them last year when they were released and was very disappointed to find out about the restrictive DRM that came with them. After I read recently that people had figured out how to get non-encumbered files onto them, I knew it was time to act!
They actually run Linux as their operating system, so I figure it's only a matter of time. Work is already progressing towards booting a custom firmware from the memory card.
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