MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - To buy or not to buy, help me answer the question (Pocket Edge)

sarah11918 · 02-18-2011, 09:38 AM

Sounds like the PE does fit your needs better melusina.

Since you asked, I had been using Tablet PCs for a few years in my math tutoring business. When I closed up shop to move to the middle of nowhere, one of my then staff tutors who was continuing to tutor offered to take over the lease. I couldn't really justify the expense of keeping it since I wasn't going to be working anymore, and he was happy to have a tablet PC, so it worked out. I'd originally had a Mac laptop (way back in 97, before they were cool) and I'd already gone back to a mac for my primary machine.

That's one thing I love about my full-sized edge: I get most of what I used my tablet PC for at a netbook price (instead of paying the premium for a tablet PC). I have two main uses for the edge. The first is reading pdfs I've printed from web pages, so the ability to convert a web page to something readable on the epub side on the fly is awesome. The second is the journal program for a paper notebook replacement. Even on my tablet PCs, I never really got into anything like EverNote or OneNote. I just want the raw journal. So for reading pdf articles and having a relatively large "piece of paper" for writing, the bigger edge is much more suited to my needs.

When I was tabletPC-less, I picked up a Nokia N810 internet tablet (4" screen) that has the same journal type program as the edge with the same features. So for grocery lists or quick jotting down, that's my go-to machine. As much fun as it would be to convince myself I could use a PE too, the N810 is even more pocketable and is a better risk management strategy. We travel pretty extensively around the world, and there have been times when the N810 would connect to the weird wifi connection but my Macbook and my edge would not. To have completely different systems gives me better odds that wherever I am, at least one of my devices will do what I need. The N810 is no longer supported and it can't do everything I need it to do anymore since developers aren't maintaining the apps (to say, update to the latest Twitter API), but it still does some things quite well. If I didn't have it, a pocket edge would be a better future-proof device (which tells you how out of date the N810 is!) but the PE doesn't give me anything I don't already have since I own the larger edge.

02-18-2011, 09:38 AM	#15
sarah11918 Edge User	Sounds like the PE does fit your needs better melusina. Since you asked, I had been using Tablet PCs for a few years in my math tutoring business. When I closed up shop to move to the middle of nowhere, one of my then staff tutors who was continuing to tutor offered to take over the lease. I couldn't really justify the expense of keeping it since I wasn't going to be working anymore, and he was happy to have a tablet PC, so it worked out. I'd originally had a Mac laptop (way back in 97, before they were cool) and I'd already gone back to a mac for my primary machine. That's one thing I love about my full-sized edge: I get most of what I used my tablet PC for at a netbook price (instead of paying the premium for a tablet PC). I have two main uses for the edge. The first is reading pdfs I've printed from web pages, so the ability to convert a web page to something readable on the epub side on the fly is awesome. The second is the journal program for a paper notebook replacement. Even on my tablet PCs, I never really got into anything like EverNote or OneNote. I just want the raw journal. So for reading pdf articles and having a relatively large "piece of paper" for writing, the bigger edge is much more suited to my needs. When I was tabletPC-less, I picked up a Nokia N810 internet tablet (4" screen) that has the same journal type program as the edge with the same features. So for grocery lists or quick jotting down, that's my go-to machine. As much fun as it would be to convince myself I could use a PE too, the N810 is even more pocketable and is a better risk management strategy. We travel pretty extensively around the world, and there have been times when the N810 would connect to the weird wifi connection but my Macbook and my edge would not. To have completely different systems gives me better odds that wherever I am, at least one of my devices will do what I need. The N810 is no longer supported and it can't do everything I need it to do anymore since developers aren't maintaining the apps (to say, update to the latest Twitter API), but it still does some things quite well. If I didn't have it, a pocket edge would be a better future-proof device (which tells you how out of date the N810 is!) but the PE doesn't give me anything I don't already have since I own the larger edge.