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BlackBerry maker RIM is coming out an iPAD competitor, a tablet aimed at business users, called the "PLAYBOOK" in early 2011:

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20100927/D9IGHQ980.html

By Thomas Mathews (Turtle) on Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 06:43 am: Edit

The Sony Touch Reader and the Cruz reader in my link above would be great for the SFU rulebooks because the cross referenced rule numbers could be accessed immediately by just touching them if they are made into a link in the proper format.

Thus giving any touch edition reader a great advantage in this discussion. I have passed this thought on to Leanna as well via email.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 10:26 am: Edit

Ugh. I can just see telling Leanna that she has to turn 78,563 cross references into a proper link. Not going to be me who tells her that.

By Mike Novean (Blackdice) on Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 03:04 pm: Edit

Steve,

The raw text can be run through a perl (or other) program that can prep the links automatically. Large scale manual coding would not be necessary.

I have written a program in the past that does this with html links.

By Jean Sexton (Jsexton) on Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 03:49 pm: Edit

Petrick, would you like to use the Bampton Stewpot? I think there is a moving target...

By Mike Novean (Blackdice) on Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 09:17 pm: Edit

SVC, if you want to see an example of a flat text file being converted with html links let me know and I can send you the example.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Wednesday, September 29, 2010 - 12:45 am: Edit

You would want to talk to Leanna about that. it's not my project.

By Jean Sexton (Jsexton) on Wednesday, September 29, 2010 - 09:35 am: Edit

Mike, if you could email Leanna, that would be best as she doesn't read this board.

By Gary Plana (Garyplana) on Friday, December 03, 2010 - 09:01 pm: Edit

The OFFICE DEPOT stores are having a sale on:

Pandigital Novel 7" Wireless Color LCD eReader

www.officedepot.com their in-house item #972036 and price $180.

I have no idea at all if this gadget is any good at all, someone I know is getting one as present, not from me!

By Toby Atkinson (Turtle006) on Saturday, December 04, 2010 - 09:05 am: Edit

I work for a different retailer that has this same product on for $160. If it is not ok to mention who (Radioshack) please feel free to edit my post, and apologies.

In addition to being an eReader, it is a fully functional Android tablet.

By Michael Tisdel (Jtisdel) on Saturday, December 04, 2010 - 10:14 am: Edit

With the release of the Nook color and the other Android-based systems, it looks like the ePaper readers may be phasing out* in favor of more interactive iPad-esque systems.

The ePaper systems are nice (I wouldn't trade my Nook for anything for reading E. R. Burroughs, H. G. Wells, and H. Rider Haggard) but the tablet systems will certainly support rules reference books and electronic game aids more easily. Right now, when I setup the F&E map, I also make room for 2 laptops so my opponent and I can use the economics spread sheet and the F&E Game Status wiki I run at my house. It would be much nicer to be able to do this on a tablet as it would require less real estate.

What do other folks do with their eBooks, laptops, and tablets? With the myriad platform


* if eReaders are phasing out, should I fire my photons now or wait for 'em to phase back in?

By Loren Knight (Loren) on Saturday, December 04, 2010 - 10:41 am: Edit

E-Paper is really nice but mostly because of the clear text that small screens couldn't produce at the time. I was recently looking at small device resolutions and the PPI on iPad and Android devices are getting pretty high and starting to be higher than HD. This means clear type in color.

It also means, I think, E-paper device prices should be dropping with the introduction of a slew of new Android/Windows pads and other devices scheduled for Q1 and Q2 2011.

My guess from what I've read.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Saturday, December 04, 2010 - 10:56 am: Edit

Supposedly, the people Leanna contracted to do the conversion did several formats. I don't know which ones.

By Frank Brooks (Alskdjf) on Saturday, December 04, 2010 - 11:10 am: Edit

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Ugh. I can just see telling Leanna that she has to turn 78,563 cross references into a proper link. Not going to be me who tells her that.

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By ROBERT l cALLAWAY (Callaway) on Saturday, December 04, 2010 - 12:05 pm: Edit

the entertaiment books have a radio shack coupon that would drop it even lower

By Gary Plana (Garyplana) on Monday, December 06, 2010 - 01:27 pm: Edit

GOOGLE is opening an eBook store today:

News article link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20024630-265.html

I emailed this link to Leanna for her consideration.

By Michael Tisdel (Jtisdel) on Thursday, July 14, 2011 - 10:13 am: Edit

With the publication of F&E: ISC War, there is a brand spankin' new Sequence of Play. Since there is still some discussion about releasing the ISC War rules on e23, I was wondering if we could get just the SoP released as a PDF. I've worn out my AO card just over the past two years and I would pay for a searchable electronic copy.

By Randy Blair (Randyblair) on Thursday, July 14, 2011 - 10:29 am: Edit

I second what Michael said.

By Loren Knight (Loren) on Thursday, July 14, 2011 - 10:58 am: Edit

Or a SoP App for all SFU games.

By Thomas Mathews (Turtle) on Saturday, August 16, 2014 - 06:57 pm: Edit

Not to revive this topic, but to move the ebook discussion in the CL49 thread here where it should be.

Most if not all e-readers have a setting where you can adjust the font size to improve the way it looks for you to read. I have done that with the ebooks I have on both my Samsung S-3 and Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10in tablet. Both devices also allow me to resize PDFs so I can read the supplemental files as well as the 2010 and ISC War rulebooks I have stored on them. Along with all those wonderful F&E SITs.

They do take some learning in how to jump to a page close enough to what you want for the non hyperlinked PDFs. That said they are still great devices when travelling to conventions or at work when I need a quick rule reference and am not on my PC.

I also have some of the other free SFU PDFs stored on my phone and tablet for quick reference, which include the CL36 Heavy Fighters F&E Rule and ISC WAR SOP.

For comparison my F&E 3 ring binders are 2 3in binders soon to be 3 at some point. My SFB rules are in 4 binders, 1-3in, and 3-2in, soon to be 4-3in and maybe 5-3in binders. There are great when I'm home and can spread them out for deeper research. But when I'm at Origins or even checking on a rule in the middle of a cyberboard combat I find the PDFs to a little quicker for something specific.