XO Ebook Goodness
My thanks to librarian Robin Ashford, who's blog provides some excellent content about the XO laptop. Being a librarian, Ashford examines the ebook capabilities of the XO in this vid
Some salient points she doesn't mention are that the XO battery lasts a whopping twenty four hours in ebook mode, and that screen gets 200 DPI resolution in grayscale, so it's very easy on the eyes.
Thanks in part to the great free content over at DriveThruRPG.com I've got plenty of ebooks that I'd love to read in the comfort of my bed covers.
But what about reading PDFs? That's not an open format and the XO runs open source. Well, according to Mike Hendrickson at O'Reilly Radar, the "OLPC can handle PDF documents just fine," unlike Amazon's Kindle. Hendrickson's final verdict on the OLPC's ebook reader capabilities? "As for the OLPC: here's to you folks. Nicely done. A wonderfully crafted device, a noble vision, and an Open mindset. Brilliant!"
Can I have mine now?
Some salient points she doesn't mention are that the XO battery lasts a whopping twenty four hours in ebook mode, and that screen gets 200 DPI resolution in grayscale, so it's very easy on the eyes.
Thanks in part to the great free content over at DriveThruRPG.com I've got plenty of ebooks that I'd love to read in the comfort of my bed covers.
But what about reading PDFs? That's not an open format and the XO runs open source. Well, according to Mike Hendrickson at O'Reilly Radar, the "OLPC can handle PDF documents just fine," unlike Amazon's Kindle. Hendrickson's final verdict on the OLPC's ebook reader capabilities? "As for the OLPC: here's to you folks. Nicely done. A wonderfully crafted device, a noble vision, and an Open mindset. Brilliant!"
Can I have mine now?
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