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Originally Posted by joker1231978
Thanks for all the replies. I'm waiting for places to open to check out the Sony.
As far as work stuff goes, I'm issued a crappy & bulky laptop to travel with. It's pretty old, and is only meant to read manuals. Our manuals are mainly just text so zooming in should work. We'll load up a few and see how it works out.
Thanks again everyone!
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Another vote for the PRS-350/650/950 Sony readers.
I have the PRS-650, and it does just about as good a job as possible, given the limitations of the small screen size.
As far as your crappy and bulky laptop goes - i recently broke down and replaced my aging laptop with a compact Gateway 10 inch Netbook.
The Netbook packs literally 4 times the performance and battery life of my old laptop into a package one fourth the overall volume. I picked it up on sale for only about $220, which coincidentally is also only about one fourth the cost of my older machine.
Much as I love my Sony PRS-650, I'm glad I was able to budget both.
I would hate to have to choose between the two, because each is so well suited for it's specific purpose.
The Netbook is, obviously, not quite as portable, and doesn't have weeks of battery life, but it offers a lot more power and flexibility.
An iPad, or higher end Android tablet would also fill this role well, but either way, the key thing to remember is that there are going to be things that a 6 inch monochrome eInk screen device just can't do as well as a device with a larger, higher resolution, full color screen.