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Originally Posted by melusina
With the PE, I would expect to do a lot of that stuff with the PE instead, without a phone data plan. That is, if I can store and update calendar offline, for example, and sync when I am at a hotspot. I will have to think about what I want to read. I assume it will accommodate headphones?
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If you get a "mifi" device from your cell phone company, you can have data access on your PE (and netbooks/notebooks) on the go. Calengoo seems to be the app to get for syncing calendars. The PE has pretty good built-in speakers, and does accommodate both headphones and bluetooth headphones.
As fgruber points out, reading PDFs on the LCD side is a much better experience (on the PE) because you can zoom more easily, and pan around the page with a finger, plus you can rotate the LCD 90 degrees for landscape reading. You just don't get to annotate, although you can use the Journal on the eInk side to write down notes about what you're reading on the LCD side.
The PE is overall a versatile device. Here's what I do on it: read novels, maintain various lists (to-do, grocery, thoughts), listen to podcasts/streaming radio/MP3s, watch video podcasts, browse the web, light email, check the weather, read RSS feeds, IM (as a backup to my laptop), etc. One thing I don't do is sync calendar and contacts as I use my laptop exclusively for this (Outlook).