ECTACO jetBook Lite
Encyclopedia
The ECTACO jetBook Lite is an e-book
E-book
An electronic book is a book-length publication in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, and produced on, published through, and readable on computers or other electronic devices. Sometimes the equivalent of a conventional printed book, e-books can also be born digital...
reader developed by Ectaco
Ectaco
ECTACO Inc. is a US-based developer and manufacturer of hardware and software products for speech recognition and electronic translation. They also make JetBook eBook readers....
, based on a Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
platform. It was announced in the United States
United States
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in January 2010. The device is a continuation of the ECTACO jetBook
ECTACO jetBook
ECTACO jetBook is an electronic-book reader developed by Ectaco, based on a Linux platform. The device was announced in the United States in October 2008...
.
Main Differences from the original ECTACO jetBook
- Audio support has been removed
- Weight has been increased to 8.8oz due to the presence of 4 AA batteries
Specifications
- Size: 153 x 109 x 10mm (25mm) , 6" x 4.2 x 0.4" (1.0")
- Weight: 8.8oz, 250gm with the 4 AA batteries
- Display: 5" (105mm x 80mm) reflective LCD 16 level grayscale (no backlight) 640 x 480 VGA, 160 ppi
- Language: support for e-Book contents in most European and Asian languages
- Fonts: adjustable font type and size - 2 built in fonts (Arial and Verdana) from 12 pt to 32 pt
- Screen rotation: support for both portrait & landscape modes
- Built-in English (explanatory) dictionary and translation facilities
- Supports TXTTXTTXT or txt may refer to:* SMS language or txt, an Internet slang language commonly used on short message service phones* .txt, a filename extension for text files* Text messaging on a phone using letters and symbols....
, PDF, HTMLHTMLHyperText Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages....
, FB2, ePUBEPUBEPUB is a free and open e-book standard by the International Digital Publishing Forum...
, MOBI, and RTFRTFRTF may stand for:* Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française, France's national public broadcasting organization between 1949 and 1964* Reader talks first, in RFID, the situation where the interrogator or reader initiates the session with the RFID tag...
file formats - DRMDigital rights managementDigital rights management is a class of access control technologies that are used by hardware manufacturers, publishers, copyright holders and individuals with the intent to limit the use of digital content and devices after sale. DRM is any technology that inhibits uses of digital content that...
formats: Adobe PDF, PDB - Image formats: GIFGIFThe Graphics Interchange Format is a bitmap image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability....
, BMP, PNG and JPEGJPEGIn computing, JPEG . The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality.... - Memory: 128MB
- SD card allowing up to 32GB of additional storage
- Colours: Burgundy, Gray, White or Black
- Pre-loaded with CIA World Factbook and the BibleBibleThe Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...
in English.