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Originally Posted by saarkagan
Hello,
A colleague of mine had a great idea!
She is in charge of organizing a very high-profile/prestigious conference held once a year and thought of using an e-book reader as a way of handing out the conference materials instead of paper. This would also act as a gift which the delegates would be able to keep, re-use, and enjoy.
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Sounds like she has a prestigious
budget to play with. How many attendees are expected?
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My question to you the community is:
What e-book reader should she use? Which reader would provide a combination of quality and price (they would have to buy several thousand pieces). Also, the reader should be able to support the popular document formats (.doc?, .pdf?)
Finally, the most important thing is that the e-book reader should be able to receive live updates via some sort of wireless connection (802.11 ?) This way they can update the attendees with any last minute changes.... directly to their reader.
Please let me know what you guys think. We would both really appreciate your help and could definitely use the expertise of the community when making such a large decision.
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The biggest limitation will be the live update. As mentioned, your choices in dedicated readers narrow to Kindle and iLiad.
I'd be more inclined to go with a multi-function device like a Palm OS PDA, Windows Mobile device, or Nokia Internet Tablet. Updates will be easier and a broad range of document formats are supported. The downside is the smaller backlit screen.
And I'd shy away from PDF as the format, unless you can custom create PDFs sized for the display on the device you choose.
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Dennis