...and now i want one. thank you. i haven't been on the internet in days (and have only little time right now to browse). i had forgotten its primary purpose is to promote consumerism.
It depends on your usage of the word primary. Originally the Internet's purpose was to promote playing network games and sending ascii porn to your researcher buddies in e-mail.
how much control does the thing give you over the display of any given text? none of the reviews I've read even touch on that. were I to get a reader of any sort, I'd want one that was customizable enough that vanilla Project Gutenberg .txt files could be displayed with proper formatting-- by which I mean, nice-looking fonts of my choosing (fucking Garamond all the way), ASCII appromixations of RTF rendered properly (_underline_ and *italic*) and shit like that. IS THE LIBRIE THE PRODUCT I'M LOOKING FOR?
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
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I'm hella jealous, either way.
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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 ( ... )
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