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Originally Posted by nekokami
I was able to get mine used for half price. I wouldn't have been able to justify the list price, either. (Even if it had had color, which I don't consider critical for my needs.) I think the Nokia 800 would have gotten more of my attention if I'd known about it earlier. But as a graduate student, I like the PDF support of the iLiad.
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Color can be nice in ebooks, as I have an assortment with color illustrations. But my PDA is also my photo viewer and video player, so color is a necessity, not an option.
The one drawback is PDFs. I have a very good open source PDF viewer for Palm devices that handles everything I throw at it, but opening PDFs is time consuming because of the pre-processing the viewer must do, and most PDFs require side-scrolling to read properly. I get PDFs only if I have no other option for the content, and am starting to use Mobipocket Creator to rip PDFs to a more handheld friendly format.
I wouldn't mind a device the physical size of the Iliad, but I'd need color, and I'd need to more easily get to the underlying Linux OS to install software and tweak the configuration. The Nokia Tablets are basically handheld Linux platforms, with a lot more flexibility, but the screen size will still bite on PDFs.
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Dennis