Not Another E-book Reader

[celticdragonfly]

http://www.naebllc.com/index.html

I just found this yesterday. Apparently somebody got fed up enough with the lack of a good ebook reader that they went to talk to Jim Baen about it - who told them "do one yourself" and gave them forum space to work from.

And they're doing it. It's not done yet. But it's in process. And their mission statement sounds pretty damn good to me.

Apparently it does handle mp3s - I guess for audio book use. I'm not an audio book person, but the one other piece of gadgetry I wish I had sometimes is a mp3 player, so hey, sounds good to me.

I don't know if we'd be able to afford one right away, but I did sign up on the list of "oh YES I'm interested". Asked a question and got a nice email back from them pretty quickly, too.

I recommend it to you all.

Comments

[sraun]

I'm still dithering on signing up - they really want a strong impression of interest, because they're trying to justify / fund getting (IIRC) 2000-3000 of them, at somewhere around $300 each. I can't justify spending $300 on something like that right now, as much as I'd like to. (If I win the lottery on Saturday, I might tell them 'what's your price-break at 3000? here's a check, go buy them'.)