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Originally Posted by mdibella
It might be a function of our ages. I became an avid reader long before there was any such thing as a PC (much less a PDA) and I'm most comfortable with something that 'feels' like a printed book to my poor old eyes. The new readers (I just bought a 505) are the first ones I've seen that do that. I never could read on a PDA, my eyes just can't handle that tiny screen. And the idea of booting up my computer to read the latest bestseller... hmmm, that just feels perverse to me for some reason.
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I also grew up before PDAs, and I distinctly remember the first PDAs coming out with miniature or touchpad keyboards, and everyone insisting that people would never accept a keyboard that was smaller than a "proper" Royal Typewriter-sized keyboard. But today, people use those smaller keyboards daily, and I've written entire chapters on half-sized keyboards attached to my PDA!
I'm in my forties, with glasses, and I can read on my Toshiba PDA all day long... it's all in what you get used to, which is a component of what you're willing to try. And as for the medium, when I'm reading, I never think about it. It's not important what the book is being read on... it's what you're reading that's important.