book reader or PDF reader or PDA

[Kurt Wall]

On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 10:15:02AM -0500, Jason Joines wrote:
>     I'm looking for some lightweight, portable, cool, quiet, linux based
> devices to read PDF and HTML files.  I don't necessarily need any more
> functionality as I just want to be able to read downloaded PDFs and web
> pages away from my PC.  I'd like the device to be larger than most PDAs
> I've seen.  Shouldn't be any larger than say 8.5" x 11" like a sheet of
> paper but not much smaller than say 6" x 9".  It also needs to be able
> to read a USB drive or act as one so I can copy files I download on my
> PC to it.
> 
>     This Sony Reader (
> http://products.sel.sony.com/pa/prs/reader_specs.html ) looks promising
> but it's not out yet, a bit small, and probably will be very expensive. 
> I can do without their proprietary format support and mp3 playback as
> well.  Doesn't mention what it runs either.

I'm not aware of any such device. Check out www.linuxdevices.com.
You'll have to search, but they might have mentioned something that
could be adapted.

Kurt
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