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I agree about multi-purpose and color. I have read several ebooks now on LCD devices: Linux netbook, Pandigital Color Novel (white-frame model), and now Archos 5 IT (still getting back into reading instead of all this random 'Net cruising  ). Tablets and netbooks are great for me. |
I'm glad you found a device that works well for you. The Archos 5 is nice, but I actually want a screen half again to twice that size. I couldn't use it one handed, but wouldn't want to. The stuff that makes me want a larger screen also needs two hands to do.
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I have found though, that it must be light enough (or easily propped as with a netbook), to not make my carpal tunnel numbness kick in, so that is why I am enjoying the Archos now. I just returned a Huawei S7 when I realized that despite being about the most powerful and featureful Android tablet going (for the price), it was too heavy for prolonged holding (built-in kickstand is only for landscape mode, which I do not like for prolonged reading). The iPad was never a consideration for me - as soon as I held it in a store, I realized it was too big, heavy, and sharp-edged for me to want to have much contact with it, and the pricing and Apple walled-garden approach "sealed its doom".
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What weight is acceptable for you?
Apple's walled garden approach is a show-stopper here, too. I understand why they take that approach, but I'm one of those folks who likes to pop the hood and fiddle.
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On the 5-inch Archos I put whichever reader software I am using (Kindle/Nook/Kobo/Aldiko/etc) in white-on-black mode (sepia background for Nook Android version, unlike the B&N reader software included on the PDN, which could do black background), and I can read it about anywhere anytime, except outside (no biggie - not a sun-worshipper), since it is so slim/light/pocketable. I find myself taking it along almost all the time when I go out and about so I can read, surf, or check email, take notes, etc when I have spare moments - a usage mode the bigger tablets do not accommodate nearly so well.
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My standard ebook reader is a PDA. It's quite readable outdoors if I turn the backlight completely off (which mine will let me do.) You might want to see what's possible with the Archos.
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Dennis