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Saturday, March 15, 2008

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GBM InkShow: iRex iLiad E-Book Reader

- Sierra Modro

InkShow As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, iRex Technologies loaned me an iLiad E-Book Reader for two weeks to do a brief evaluation. While the e-book reader is itself a very nice product, the exciting part about the iLiad is that it includes a Wacom digitizer.

I'll warn you, when I got done shooting the video, I had way too much material for one InkShow, so I divided it rather arbitrarily into two parts.

Part 1 (see below) covers the form factor, e-book reading, newspaper reading and annotating books.

Part 2 will cover creating ink notes and acquiring content. This should go up early next week.

Download the high res InkShow ( WMV, 16 min, 110 mb )
Watch the embedded video below
Visit iRex Technologies to learn more about the iLiad
Price: $699 at eReader Outfitters, the US distributor

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3/15/2008 12:46 AM MST

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Saturday, March 15, 2008 1:02:46 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

Well, now, let's try this again. :)

Sierra Modro

Saturday, March 15, 2008 5:26:54 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

Download link isn't working.

threeonefour

Saturday, March 15, 2008 6:39:05 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

Hey your new site with ink show video displayed right on your home page and the possibility of making them full screen is a great edition!

Thank you GBM!

AZhiker

Sunday, March 16, 2008 8:21:46 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

Hi Sierra,
I'm _so_ jealous of you right now! This device is, IMHO, one of the most exciting around these days.

If you get a chance, I'd love to see a quick written review or video demo of how the device handles pdfs... what users have to go through to make pdfs readable on it, etc.

Great video, btw!
jamie

Jamie Poster

Monday, March 17, 2008 3:46:14 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

How do I download it to watch later?

John in Norway

Monday, March 17, 2008 7:40:05 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

I have corrected the download link so you can download it to view later. Our apologies.

Rob

Monday, March 17, 2008 7:43:06 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

Sorry guys!! When I re-uploaded after the site problems, the link went missing.

Sierra Modro

Monday, March 17, 2008 7:56:34 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

Thanks!

John in Norway

Monday, March 17, 2008 12:38:14 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

Part 2 will include a section on a PDF that I loaded onto the iLiad that was NOT formatted for the iLiad and it turned out great. The iLiad handles regular PDFs quite well.

I hope to get part 2 posted tomorrow.

Sierra Modro

Monday, March 17, 2008 4:20:26 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

Sierra--pardon I anxiously await your "writing on the Iliad" review---will it work for me to grade papers on? My current t2010 is great for that but after 3 hours of holding it---whew. The e-ink is better for long reading too and it is really mobile. Can I get files with my comments off of it very easily in pdf format that I can give back to my students?

Jim

Monday, March 17, 2008 4:24:49 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

Jim - since I'm not a teacher, I can't say for sure, but I would think the iLiad ought to work for grading papers. Here's what you can do:
1. Transfer any PDF to the iLiad
2. Write / annotate the PDF. This would include comments and grades
3. Transfer the annotated PDF back to your computer. It's still in PDF format
4. Send the annotated PDF to the student (or print it out I suppose)
Sound like that would work?

Sierra Modro

Wednesday, April 30, 2008 1:28:14 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

Hello,

Next time could you show how a normal PDF (A4 format) - like a product sheet or an IBM redbook for instance - would be displayed on the iRex ?

Try with this one if you want: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247585.html?Open

At IBM we have tons of technical documentation. It would be very cool to read it on ePaper.

jfdeclercq

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