Got also a WikiReader now
Alexander Lehner
lehner at edv-buero-lehner.de
Thu Sep 9 01:33:28 CEST 2010
Since 'Pulster' recently posted, that he has Germanized WikiReaders, I
could not resist and ordered one.
Now I've got it and started playing around (first removed the cap to see
the connector to the debug serial interface - disappointed, I need a
special adapter to it).
But what really surprised me was the fact, that the delivered SD card not
only held a german Wikipedia, but also a english and a dutch one!
and I can switch between then during runtime and even the history
function tracks the different country-specific entries correctly.
This function makes it valuable for me, since there are a lot of
country-specific pages which are not translated to other languages (simply
because it sometimes makes no sense).
Of course I was looking around to see some hacks or mods, but I was too
lazy to set up my own build-chain. The Fortran interface is nice for some
tests, indeed.
Just for the joy of "yes, we can" I'd be intersted in some different ways
of abusing that device, and I'm missing a email group like this one for
the OM handy.
Any pointers to active hackers for the WikiReader?
Thanks,
Alex.
More information about the community
mailing list