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RIP Librié

Published Friday, April 28, 2006 by Mathieu | E-mail this post

RIP 21/11/05 - 28/4/06

The ePaper has been destroyed - cracked by pressure - possibly with the weight of my laptop in my backpack.

The unit switches on, and the software loads, as parts of the screen appear to work, progressively darken, and then die.

I've posted some shots of it on flickr (tags: broken librie)

I'm disappointed, because I discovered the breakage as I pulled it out of my bag, contained within my laptop's 'protective case', to have a read in the sun as I waited for my train.

I still have my health.

I've had the opportunity to experience ePaper - this experience hasn't turned me off it. I'll just have to make sure that my future eBook has a stronger protective case for the screen. I believe the iRex iLiad has a glass cover. The Sony Reader which will sell in Borders book stores across the US has a...?

This makes me wonder whether Sony equipped the paper with anything more than the leather cover?

It also reminds me (or I'm reminding myself) of a quote:

"The glass you drank from this morning is just temporarily un-shattered"
Merlin Mann in the 43 Folders Podcast "A Phone Made of Human Ass"

Merlin suggests you capture a list of features that you love or hate about something and what you would like changed, so that when the inevitable time comes to get a new one, you have a list handy.

I'll whip up a Librie / ePaper one

Strong Screen Protection (!)
Rechargeable internal battery
Have a sleep setting so always on
If you're going to have text input, make it easy to use
Page numbering (how did they leave this one out?)
RSS feed aggregation and reader
Wireless for automatic content updates from the internet
On device book shopping
Mac support! Or at least the promise of it
Support for as many formats as possible
Pen input would be nice
iTunes-like bookstore
If you have wireless, have email

Update: Incidentally the posted picture above has become overnight the most viewed photo in my flickr photostream! 63 individual views!
Update: Now I know why: This post was linked from Mobileread. Thanks!

10 Responses to “RIP Librié”

Anonymous on 12:35 pm, April 30, 2006

Oh,my god....So what will you do??
btw what is laptop??
Anonymous on 3:58 pm, April 30, 2006

I'll just have to not have a Librie for a while!

A laptop is a portable computer :-)
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