book reader or PDF reader or PDA

[Jason Joines]

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From: "A. Khattri" <ajai at bway.net>
To:
Subject: Re:book reader or PDF reader or PDA
Date: Thu Oct 19 2006 08:55:33 GMT-0500 (CDT)
> On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Jason Joines wrote:
>
>>     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 recently had the opportunity to play with a friend's Nokia 770 tablet.
>
> Its about the size of a shirt pocket, runs Linux, has WiFi built-in, etc.
> You can get evince for it. Of course, its more than just a ebook reader
> but the size and weight would be perfect for what you want. There's an SDK
> for it and a boatload of applications ported (or in the process of being
> ported).
>
> Nokia 770 page on Nokia US site: http://www.nokiausa.com/770
>
> Nokia 770 apps list: http://maemo.org/maemowiki/ApplicationCatalog2006
>
>
>
> Im planning to get one soon myself!



    I took a look at it.  Looks like a pretty neat device and not as
expensive as I thought it would be.  However, it's way too small.  The
whole thing is 5.5" x 3.1" and from the image I'd say the screen is just
4.5" x 2.5".

    I'd really like to find something around 6" x 9" or larger and I do
want the screen oriented so it's taller than it is wide.  I really hat
having to scroll just to read one page so I'd like to be able to just
use "page down" and have the complete next page shown on the screen.


Jason
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