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Originally Posted by cbarnett
You don't have to give up your existing device and software. They will always work as they do now, so even if all palms do go the M$ way (which I doubt), you don't have to throw away what you've already got.
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Yes, of course that was one of the first things that came to mind: As long as the Tungsten E continues to work, I can carry on with my current mode of record-keeping. And that's most likely what I'll do until it dies as all small electronic devices do sooner or later, unless one of two things happens: (1) by some miracle, a fairly inexpensive, non-Palm, non-MS, Linux-desktop-friendly handheld is born and achieves enough acceptance to make it seem unlikely to be orphaned anytime soon, in which case I'll try to find a way to switch to that; or (2) I decide the whole game is just not worth the time and effort--which themselves have quite a bit of value--and jump ship and return to a purely paper-based mode. This could, of course, include using a Unix-friendly database and printing out records to include in a paper planner.
I won't miss e-texts that much. I've had fun and read thousands of pages on Palm devices, mainly from Project Gutenberg. But there's not a single one of those texts I can't read just as comfortably on my 20-inch Princeton monitor. I just won't be carrying them around in my pocket!
