| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中央大學 === 資訊工程研究所 === 98 === Life style changes while technology was bombing and incessantly developing in the recent years. Almost everyone owns at least a multimedia mobile device today. They don’t use as a traditional phone only call and hear any longer; their needs increase more and more, they want mobile could be able to surf website, multimedia services such as music, video, document reading, resource sharing. On the other hand, reading habit also change. Today, there is no need to bring pen, note or make ugly our printed book by folds to mark one certain page in book, and also the carrying pile of books outdoor is inconvenient. Only be with a small-size digital reader device they could solve the above inconvenience. These devices could store thousands of books, and equipped almost enough functions support user’s reading by the software and services, was developed by device’s producer.
Why did we waste our money to own both of them? While the recent multimedia mobile today was supported in OS, battery capacity… more power than before such as iPhone OS, Anroid OS… The internet network also is developing with efficiently technologies for mobile device.
To be able to keep up with the world, developing reading eBook software based on mobile device like as reader device is necessary. That has good enough functions and easy to use on hand for a freshman. We choose the Google Android platform, a new generation mobile OS, because of its open property. Although it is just appears in a few recent year, but it become an iPhone’s competitor about many aspects as applied ability, extended ability and number of application and developer. Besides, it also support a framework nearly enough necessary library, let us could be easy to use third party library on own client or modify, rebuild an own OS like as we want.
The final our goal is to make an effective and friendly eBook reader on available multimedia mobile devices and could be a useful tool support for a digital life nowadays changing day by day. We achieve this goal by our client supported user could read multiple eBook format, but also ensure the author’s right through DRM license.
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