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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
I'd be good with a small b/w device for straight reading of books. In fact, for just books, I'm good with a PDA. For periodicals like magazines, I'd want a larger device, and I'd want color. So in terms of Astak's products, I might want the smaller device now, and hold out for a larger color device in the future (or once more magazines go online).
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I think I have arthritis in my right thumb because of all the scrolling on my TX. And while color would be wonderful, it is on my list of things I'm willing to forgo. (Granted, my TX also doubles as my baby-pictures-shower-offer -- coming soon twice the kids, triple the action!) If I would want a larger-than-6" device it would be fore PDFs, but I'm happy to go smaller if there's an acceptable work-around.
I like the freedom of surfing on the TX (although, I admit it is a bit of an extravagance, I can accompany my toddler in her alloted TV-viewing time without having to shoot myself...unless it is Arthur or Yo Gabba Gabba, but I digress), but even with the TX I still could use much more screem space.
And to digress further , after playing with my friend's OLPC XO, I think an LCD screen with an XO-like ebook mode would read nearly as well as eink, would do color when necessary and be much cheaper. Color eink is, of course, inevitable, but I'm talking about what I'd be willing to pay for now.