Check out this first-impressions look at the Iliad ebook reader by Sydney blogger and author Sherman Young who managed to spend a few minutes with one at a Dymocks store. The Iliad has been adopted by Dymocks as its ebook reader of choice and, according to the salesman, they’ve sold “a couple of hundred” so [...]
Entries from April 2008
How good is Dymocks’ Iliad ebook reader?
April 20th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: ebook readers
Next generation e-Ink screen slated for release later this year
April 20th, 2008 · No Comments
This story from Infoworld previews a significant development in the popular e-Ink screen technology that’s used in most of today’s dedicated ebook readers such as the Amazon Kindle and the iRex Iliad. The display could allow users to annotate pages in electronic books, make amendments to documents, and erase parts of the page with as [...]
Tags: ebook readers · hardware
Dymocks’ ebook reader hit with virus
April 1st, 2008 · No Comments
In what is possibly the first reported virus attack on an ebook reader, the iRex Iliad – chosen by Dymocks booksellers as its ebook reader of choice – has been hit by an adware infection. Thought to be the imgInSOYt worm, it falls into the category commonly referred to as “adware”. These low level infections [...]
