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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
My normal reading device is a Palm OS PDA, with a 320x480 3.25"x2.25" screen. I started reading ebooks on a PDA years back, and have continued the practice.
I'm not interested in a dedicated reader, because I need color support (which rules out eInk), and I need a device that does more than display ebooks. Aside from the standard PDA personal organizer functions, I have apps for handling Word and Excel files, a good word processor, web browser, email app, viewers for video and and photos, a music player, paint app, several programming languages and a programming editor...and oh, yes, it plays games. 
The biggest limitation is the small screen. I wouldn't mind a larger one, but haven't seen a device that does everything the PDA will do. Meanwhile, with appropriate font selections, I get a decent amount of text on screen, and am quite comfortable reading on it. (Comfortable enough to have about 4,000 ebook volumes occupying most of a 2GB SD card in one of the card slots, with half of the PDA's purpose in life being ebook viewing.)
The next device is likely to be an Android based tablet, with a folding BT keyboard as an accessory.
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Dennis |
The Archos 43 might be the one for you. I am interested in it for the same reasons that you are. It has a 4.3 inch screen - not quite the resolution of an Ipod Touch 4g, but excellent none the less. Bigger screen in a small format, it seems to be the new heir to the PDA world - along of course with the iTouch. I prefer it to a phone for which you would need a phone contract.