Kakai developing a Linux-based e-book reader? Wouldn't you like to know!
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted April 23rd 2010 3:57PM
posted April 23rd 2010 3:57PM
It seems that Osman Rashid, the guy behind Chegg (an online textbook rental service, sort of like a boring Netflix) has decided that he's going to follow the likes of Kindle and iPad into the untested (well, somewhat tested -- and somewhat reviled) e-textbook space. Details are scant -- and it's this fact, really, that's captured the imagination of tech wonks on a slow news day like today. According to Kara Swisher of All Things Digital, Rashid's start-up, Kakai, is "in the deepest of stealth modes, despite a panoply of high-profile players involved." That's right -- despite having almost fifty employees and almost $10 million in venture capital, no one is really sure what these guys are trying to do! No one, that is, except Swisher, who's apparently received reports of a demo video that targets potential investors, describing a Linux-based, dual-display, Courier-like device aimed at the educational market. Which sounds great, as far as that goes -- but we're waiting for some specs, or blurrycam pics, or for someone to leave one at a bar somewhere before we get too excited.
/sarcasm/ Yay, moooooore eBooks /sarcasm/
@JimJam707 It's more the textbook idea that is exciting rather than anything else.
@scots79 that's right! someone needs come up with an innovative way of reading text books + note taking...whether the upcoming courier or these guys....but hurry it up already!
@JimJam707 Unlike other ebooks. A Courier style Linux based e-reader is exactly what I will buy if it comes before September when school starts.
Yes, and bring it to canada eh
Kakai in Russian means "go poop"
Aren't almost all the e-Book readers Linux-based?
as a librarian i can say that i am pro bars and linux. meh to the rest.
hopefully the kakai isn't a kaka idea...
Ye
Would I like to know? No, not really.
Pretty bad name.
Who's gonna want a cockeye device?
That would be awesome - I'm sick of spending tons of money on damn textbooks that are 'required' for just a 1 semester long paper. And after I'm done with them I can count myself lucky if I get a fraction of what I originally paid for them back when I sell them - if they haven't been superceeded by a newer version and therefore defunct.
Man, I get wet dreams everytime I think of the Courier...
They're right though that Kakai sucks esp 'cause it sounds like "cockeye!"