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Originally Posted by radius
Looks like I'll limp along with my Palm until the next generation of Sony reader comes out (hopefully with a faster CPU too; I'd trade speed over battery life any day since slow graphics/resizing/rendering causes enough frustration to make reading unpleasant)
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I read ebooks on a Palm OS device, and don't consider it limping.
In my case, it's a Tapwave Zodiac 2, which is an OS 5.27 device with 320x480 screen and
two SD slots.
My primary viewer is Plucker, and I have about 3,200 Plucker volumes occupying 1.5GB on a 2GB card. I also have a fair bit in MobiPocket (Thanks for the wonderful Omnibus editions, HarryT!), plus scattered content in eReader, PDF, Palm DOC, zTXT, ACII text, RTF, and Word format. It
does require maintianing five viewer applications, but I can read pretty much anything on the device.
I use the Zodiac because I want to do other things besides read ebooks on it. The Zodiac is also my PDA, MP3 player, Video viewer, games device, and pocket reference to everything.
I don't see myself moving to an eInk device. I need color, which eInk does not currently support, and available eInk devices that do other things besides read ebooks like the iRex Iliad are at price points I can't justify.
Next stop for me is likely to be a Nokia N800 if I move at all.
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Dennis