The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Report is out. PDF is free, but...

The thing that caught my eye about the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Report is that you can buy it as a printed book (much like the The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States Report, A.K.A. the 9/11 Commission Report), and as a free PDF (again, like the 9/11 Commission Report), but not in any other format. So why use PDFs and no other format, or use an open format to start with?

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Filed under  //   Accessibility   Adobe   Financial Crisis   Government   PDFs   Politics   ebooks   ereading   reading   software  
 

Meet the Cruz: A $200 Android Tablet being sold as a Book Reader

The Cruz Reader (Manufacturer's link) is an Android tablet running Eclair (2.0, so no Froyo/2.2 love here, yet, but it's better than 1.5 or 1.6),  being pimped by Borders as an advanced alternative to their extremely-bare-bones e-ink Kobo eReader (not the recently announced wireless Kobo) and the Aluratek Libre LCD-based reader. I've heard from employees of Borders employees that corporate has been comparing it to the iPad. Hit the jump to see how close to the mark that is.

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