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Will You Buy an Apple iPad?
Post 302391432 by Neo on Monday 1st of February 2010 10:02:50 AM
02-01-2010
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I read (somewhere on the net) that LCD displays do not make good eBook readers and are nearly unreadable in sunlight. This was confirmed by reborg and his discussion earlier. Then, I read more about this and how inferior LCD displays (like in the iPad) are for ebook reading.
Of course that does not matter to those who love Apple products. They prefer an inferior Apple product to a superior product by another company. For me, since I don't need an ebook reader in the sunlight, I'm OK with an LCD ebook reader, as I read in cars, planes, "that special library where the bathtub is" and my bed.
What bothers me the most is the lack of USB support and the fact that I will be locked into certain telco companies and cannot use just any SIM card for GPRS if I need it.
Apples needs to open up, IMHO.
At least the iMac has a unix/darwin BSD core, that is great.
It is time for Apple to do the same thing with the iPad and make it more interoperable and with a replaceable battery.
Also, I agree the price is too high. $499 is only bare bones entry.
On the other hand, I still might buy an "unlocked" version
Of course that does not matter to those who love Apple products. They prefer an inferior Apple product to a superior product by another company. For me, since I don't need an ebook reader in the sunlight, I'm OK with an LCD ebook reader, as I read in cars, planes, "that special library where the bathtub is" and my bed.
What bothers me the most is the lack of USB support and the fact that I will be locked into certain telco companies and cannot use just any SIM card for GPRS if I need it.
Apples needs to open up, IMHO.
At least the iMac has a unix/darwin BSD core, that is great.
It is time for Apple to do the same thing with the iPad and make it more interoperable and with a replaceable battery.
Also, I agree the price is too high. $499 is only bare bones entry.
On the other hand, I still might buy an "unlocked" version
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fetch-ebook-metadata
FETCH-EBOOK-METADATA(1) calibre FETCH-EBOOK-METADATA(1) NAME
fetch-ebook-metadata - part of calibre SYNOPSIS
fetch-ebook-metadata [options] DESCRIPTION
Fetch book metadata from online sources. You must specify at least one of title, author, publisher or ISBN. If you specify ISBN, the others are ignored. Whenever you pass arguments to fetch-ebook-metadata that have spaces in them, enclose the arguments in quotation marks. OPTIONS
--version show program's version number and exit -h, --help show this help message and exit -t, --title Book title -a, --author Book author(s) -p, --publisher Book publisher -i, --isbn Book ISBN -m, --max-results Maximum number of results to fetch -k, --isbndb-key The access key for your ISBNDB.com account. Only needed if you want to search isbndb.com and you haven't customized the IsbnDB plug- in. -v, --verbose Be more verbose about errors SEE ALSO
The User Manual is available at http://calibre-ebook.com/user_manual Created by Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net> fetch-ebook-metadata (calibre 0.6.53) July 2010 FETCH-EBOOK-METADATA(1)