Best PDA To Read e-Texts On?

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday May 5, 2004 @11:58AM from the was-it-gutenberg-for-you-too? dept.

GabrielStrange writes "I've been thinking for a while now that I'd like to own some sort of portable device on which I could read e-Texts. This device should be able to read both simple text files (i.e. Project Gutenberg e-Texts) and more complex formats, like Plucker, Acrobat or Microsoft Reader. It should have a fairly high-res display with a backlight that would be easy on the eyes... but doesn't particularly need to be a color display. I'd like it to work with at least one (if not both) of the machines on my desktop, which run Linux 2.6 and MacOS X Panther... And to use a USB port. And I'd like it to have a built in, rechargeable battery, because I already have enough devices to worry about batteries for. And, of course, I don't want to pay very much for it. Anyone got any recommendations for such a device? It's proving to be almost impossible to even obtain an actual list of devices that have these features."

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fp by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-05 11:59 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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teh by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-05 12:00 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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Re:Tungsten T3! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-05 12:05 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Resoltion???

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Why not just buy a paperback book? by isoga · 2004-05-05 13:01 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Cheaper, no batteries, much higher resolution