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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
If it works for you, splendid. They have to get it right sometime. 
FIOS is attractive but not available in my area. Given the nature of the technology, I don't expect it to be any time soon. Retrofitting fiber to the doorstep in NYC will be a very neat trick. There's already an enormous amount of stuff under the street. The last time I had a major cable modem outage, the Fire Department(!) had been running new emergency communications lines. I was a little startled to see the cable trucks with the huge coils and FDNY blazons. I hadn't known they had that equipment. Unfortunately, they weren't as careful not to disturb the other stuff under the street as Verizon and the cable company are.
My cable company keeps pushing a package with cable TV, high speed internet, and VOIP phone service. I've been passing, because it wouldn't be a net savings. It makes sense only if you make a lot of long distance calls (where VOIP is significantly cheaper), and I make next to none. For the occasional call I do make, I have a Qwest LD package with a 5 cent/min flat rate anywhere in the US. |
Didn't realize you lived in NYC, I would think that if and when Verizon does Fios it would be to the main trunks in apartment buildings and from there it'd be copper unless your building is already fiber.
For townhouses and single family homes I guess Verizon would deploy as they do in the suburbs. I'm a suburbanite and the block I live on was one of the first Verizon installed fiber. They don't blanket an entire community but skip around. My neighbor a couple of courts away didn't get fiber until 8 months after I did. My only quibble with Verizon is their cheap router but I took theirs out and had mine installed before the tech slammed the door on his truck in my driveway.
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Does the Touch allow you to completely turn off the backlight? The Zodiac will do that, and I can read it quite well out of doors. I couldn't do so with the old Tungsten E the Zodiac replaced, which was a problem. It turns out there was a hack that would let me do so on the TE, but I didn't discover it till the E was dying and being replaced. 
If the touch will let you turn the backlight off, you might see if it makes it usable out of doors.
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I can turn off the backlight but I found out yesterday it actually works great outside if I turn the backlight all the way up. Usually I keep it about 20% but all the way up worked great outside with the sun coming over my shoulder.
What I really dislike about the Touch is no stylus, I'm constantly fat fingering the durn thing. Eventually, I'll get used to it.
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That's a plus for my unit. I just dump ebook files directly into the appropriate directories on the SD cards with a USB reader. 3,500 and counting thus far...
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I'm only using the Touch as a back up reading device but I'm hoping eReader on it improves. Right now when you go to your bookshelf at eReader/Fictionwise your books are listed with the most recent first at least I'm pretty sure that's the way it's done. You can only scroll through the list, haven't figured out a way to search. Once the books are on the Touch, you just have a listing. I would love to able to use folders and have a real directory. (Also would love that on my Kindle.)