OWEN E1 e-reader gets outed for Chinese reading public
By Laura June 
posted January 1st 2010 1:02AM
posted January 1st 2010 1:02AM
posted January 1st 2010 1:02AM
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@HighestRanked First of the year maybe??
Happy FUCKING New Years!!
at any rate:
"By Laura June posted Jan 1st 2010 1:02AM"
Does Laura not have the day off or something? It's new year's for goodness sake's. Give the woman a break! She should be out with family or friends having a good time right now welcoming the new year, not posting crap about Chinese e-readers.
Engadget, give Laura the day off!!!
5th comment of the new year! Woot!
@HighestRanked Sorry but not first.
revoltracers Posted Jan 1st 2010 12:02AMHIGHEST RANKED
Long live Engadget!
http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/engadgets-top-posts-2009/comments/24357353/
@(Unverified) noooooooooo!!
yes... engadgets 1st post of the new year!!!
Not to stray away from you guys, but I kind of want that.
Anyone know the name of the novel on the E-1?
@HighestRanked
So ... am I supposed to downrank you, or because it's New Year you get a pass? What's the deal?
Secondly, WTF, Engadget! I can't change my pic! The option to upload a pic doesn't even show up on Firefox/Chrome. Opera/IE lets me upload something, and then it says, "It might take up to 5 minutes," or w/e PR BS it's pre-programmed to say.
Thirdly, nevermind Laura working at this time, why are we even READING this NOW? Shouldn't we be getting wasted somewhere?
@HighestRanked
Sadly, everyone on Engadget loses.
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/12/31/wii-dominates-amazons-video-game-best-sellers-of-2009/comments/24357341/
Joystiq beat all you guys with a post exactly at 12:00 Jan 1, 2010.
I would suggest a little more research... It will be difficult for the Chinese reading public to use this... It seems to be in English?..
BTW, can anybody recommend an ebook reader which natively supports PDF?
Pretty much all list PDF as supported file format, but most require extra conversion with some proprietary software.
Any recommendations?
@Dummy00001
The Kindle 2, nook, and Sony Reader all support PDF as a native format, I believe.
@Carld But they do not display pdf formats correctly all the time as their screen is too big. Only the Kindle 2 9" displays pdf correctly (for research papers and etc)
@omikun: Don't Sony have a larger model too now?
hahah all of you, chumps!!
I get first downrank of the year!!! hahahaah suckers!!
@HighestRanked
Looking at your post history, it looks like you're going to get down ranked every minute of every year. I doubt that's something to be happy about.
@Dafrety well, as you'd realize, Engadget is infested with MS fanboys and the MS fanboy police. Much like the Great Leader of North Korea, Kim Jon Il, no one is allowed to speak bad of him nor Microsoft. Anyone who dares simply gets crushed by the commie gestapo-like police or in Engadget's case, downranked into oblivion.
The good news is that the MS fanboy police can downrank all they want but is impotent against the real-world success of all that they oppose. In this case, mainly the iPhone, iPods and Macs. Furthermore, the MS fanboy police is also impotent against the on-going downfall of WinMo and no amount of digital viagra is going to fix that.
screw e-readers, let's support our local libraries
I've counted 7 comments that cut the post's topic at some weird point. That includes "screw e-readers, let's support our local libraries". Only two of these actually cut the topic E-1. Nice statistic
someone get this for me
@OwenV ?? Can't you just buy it yourself? There's plenty of legit sites offering to sell obscure Chinese gear such as this.
Wait - a Chinese company has come out with an ebook reader that (a) doesn't look like a Kindle, (b) doesn't look like a Sony Reader, and (c) isn't mind-numbingly ugly?
Good job that company. (Although, despite lack of mind-numbing ugliness on this one, Sony's equivalent is still better-looking...)