Irex and epub

However, "you can't use your fingers for navigation; you have to use the [included] stylus. But, sadly, "It seems the touchscreen doesn't serve much of a purpose at this point. At the main IREX website there is further information about this reader.

PDF documents available there say it is "a sleek, 8. What does it mean? First of all, "industry standard ePub format" refers to a format for eBooks which is being widely used for free-of-charge downloads of classic books that are in the public domain and no longer copyright protected.

These digital editions can be distributed and redistributed for free — by anyone, to anyone, for any reason whatever. The IP is completed once and can be updated as the information changes. More features. Basic Reliance Documentation. Advance Reliance Documentation. Single IRB Coordination. Single IRBs. The Despite the relatively large display it's a very portable device that's comfortable to hold and easy to stow in a bag or purse.

There's no user-accessible internal storage; instead everything goes on the included 2 gig microSD card you can use larger cards if you wish. The microSD card slot is located under the battery door on the back, and there's a SIM card slot but this isn't used for Verizon connectivity. IREX makes the source available and one can write applications or port Linux applications to the device. To install an application, simply drag it to the Programs directory on your SD card. To access the program directly, you'll want to modify an.

It's quite easy to do this:. You'll see a file called dr. Reboot the reader by sliding the power button for 5 seconds and you're done. Don't use Microsoft Word to do this because it messes with line breaks-- stick to a vanilla text editor. After that when you use the SD Card app you'll see folders joy to those who love to organize their reading material.

Go to the Programs folder and you'll see icons for programs you've copied to the SD card. The Lithium Ion battery is affixed to the removable back door and it attaches via a 2-wire connector to the motherboard.

IREX has so far stated that they want users to send the reader to their US service center to swap the battery but I see absolutely no reason why since it's very easy to plug and unplug the wired connector. The IREX is made of plastic and it has a matte finish. They did an uncanny job of matching the front bezel color to the light gray e-ink display background.

That makes for a continuous, printed page look and has fooled most folks into thinking it's the best e-ink display yet. I say "fooled" because it's on par with the Kindle 2, nook and Sony Reader Pocket Edition , but not better in terms of contrast and sharpness.

It's an excellent display though, and we're very impressed that the digitizer has absolutely no negative impact on screen quality. The screen is most definitely better than the Sony touch readers' displays. We dig deep in the second video and show you book display, navigating the OS, newspapers via NewspaperDirect, shopping and PDF viewing. As we mentioned, that means you can buy eBooks from a good selection of sites and read them on the DRSG.

It respects margins and embedded fonts, and you can override the margin settings and even set them to zero using a settings applet. The device supports portrait and landscape modes but not full rotation , so the flipbar is either at the left or at the bottom.

That said, the large x display works very well for viewing most PDFs in portrait mode: text is small but very readable and illustrations are intact-- very nice. I though the lack of PDF zoom would be a problem but it found it wasn't at all. You can change the font size and you'll see the usual digital reader issue: the layout is lost and images are removed when the text size is increased. This isn't a problem for library books or text-heavy tomes but it won't work if you're reading tech docs that rely on illustrations.

Watch our second video to see PDFs in action. PDB books work reasonably well but there there are a few missing features. This is particularly annoying since, like the nook, there's no go to page function doh! You can access the book's table of contents if it has one to jump around in the book.

One last thing: PDB books display in a sans serif font and there's no way you can change to the usual serif font. Though you can't change the font size, the default font size is perfect for comfortable reading it's on par with the device's medium font size , so it doesn't get in the way of pleasurable reading.

The DRSG has an image viewer, but with a grayscale display, we don't expect you to be excited. There is no music player and thus no audio book support. You can view books by book cover or as a listing and you can sort by title, author, recently added or recently accessed. Microsoft Office documents, emails, and PDF documents can be printed into a readable format directly onto the device.

Compared to other ebook readers, the iLiad Book Edition has a larger x mm 8. Like the larger Digital Reader, the iLiad comes with a program called MyScript Notes that converts handwritten notes into digital text. This model is very similar to the Book Edition in size and weight, but with some additional features such as Wi-Fi.

It was marketed as having the ability to support other media files like Sodoku and Crossword Puzzles, as well as synchronizing between computers and additional iLiads.