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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Brian Wood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">On Friday 21 May 2010 12:55:16 pm jedi wrote:<br><br>> A liberated JooJoo probably has more potential. The newer Archos<br>> tablets might also have some potential. An Android app might be useful<br>
> if not now than in the near future when something catches up HW wise.<br><br></div>An Android tablet computer is in fact available, with an ARM CPU, but I don't<br>think it would be very useful for Myth.<br><br>It's called a "Nook", and once rooted it's a fairly decent Android platform,<br>
but the B+W display is not too useful for video, and the color touch screen is<br>pretty small. Some folks have been running the Pandora browser, which seems<br>better than the one B&N included in the 1.3 release.<br>
<br>The Nook seems to have a very active hacker community. Most of the hacking on<br>the Kindle seems to be about cracking the DRM, and I have no desire to steal<br>books.<br><br>At least the Kindle now somewhat supports PDF files, in the past you had to<br>
send your PDF to Amazon and have them convert the file to something the Kindle<br>understood, and pay for the privilege. Nook deals with PDFs very well, as long<br>as the required fonts are embedded in the file (most seem to be).<br>
<br>I still say the iPad sounds like some sort of feminine hygiene product.<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>Are you referring to the Nook E-Book Reader? Sounds like some kind of porn device to me.