[LMB] AKICOT:L Kolin eBook

[Scott Raun]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 11:36:35AM +0000, James M. BRYANT G4CLF wrote:
> Some time ago I was offered a new, small, light
> eBook reader called the Kolin EB683. It is very
> nice but it has a minor problem - the manual is
> in Chinese. The data loading software is in
> English, but its operation is not intuitive and
> there are no help files. When I bought it I was
> promised an English manual in a month or two
> but this has not been forthcoming.
> 
> [A] Does any list member have one and know how
> to use it?

Not myself, by I do have two suggestions:

1 - have you already found out that it's a re-branded Argosy EB 683,
and done any searches on that?

2 - You might try the EBook reader board at bar.baen.com.  They're
trying to organize a mass buy of an eInk book reader there - the web
site to indicate interest is at http://www.naebllc.com/index.html.
They're _supposed_ to be putting up specs in the near future - IIRC,
it'll be about $300, running a Linux kernel, and supporting the Open
E-Book format (which somehow means it'll support the Baen HTML
format).  I don't know about convertors - I've been studiously
ignoring it, because I don't have $300 to drop on it.

-- 
Scott Raun
sraun at fireopal.org