Kindle Reader on a tablet
By Paul Biba
Gottabemobile has a round-up article on people who are using the new PC-based Kindle Reader on their tablets.
The article lists stuff from UMPCPortal, who is using a Gigabyte T1028M convertable, Late to the Party, using a Toshiba M200, AppScout, suing a Lenovo X200 (picture above) and a video of a Viliv X70.
November 11th, 2009 at 8:20 am
Nice! Wotta good reason to buy a tablet!
Seriously, though, it looks like a good solution for tablet owners. Now, if Amazon would get some newspaper and magazine content into that store, it would be great.
November 11th, 2009 at 8:41 am
A good way to be DRM-agnostic (if you can’t be DRM-free); just add Kindle reader, MS Reader, Adobe Reader, and eReader to a cheap Tablet (there’s a fair selection ’round the US$499 price point) and associate the various file extensions to the appropriate reader app and you’re in business. The Windows 7 Libraries feature can then front-end all your ebooks in a common database.
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2008/10/arspdc-windows-7-libraries-under-the-microscope.ars
And, of course, you get ink-based annotations, too.
I’m waiting to see the Archos 9 and Viliv 7 tablets in the “flesh” to see which form-factor fits me best.