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Originally Posted by heron61
My Sony Clie is getting quite old and is having problems, so I'll be replacing it in the next month or so and I'm undecided between an ipod Touch and a Nokia n810. Since one of my primary uses for a portable device is as an ebook reader, I'm wondering which people consider to be superior for this purpose. FBReader looks good, I love the images I've seen of the n810's large, high resolution screen, and it has a good PDF reader and can run Palm software. However, the ipod Touch also now how a growing number of programs useful for ebooks. Between Bookshelf, the fact that Stanza will soon be compatible with Windows machines (my PC runs XP) and DataCase allows PDF, doc, and rtf reading in both portrait and landscape mode, it can do almost everything that the n810 can.
Also, while I like the fact that the n810 has a better screen, I've never used linux before and I've heard that software on it can be unreliable and buggy, and I'm none to fond of the idea of that.
So, which would people here recommend. I primarily read ebooks in Plucker, html (mostly Project Gutenberg texts), and pdf formats.
So, which option do people here recommend?
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I've not used an iPhone/iTouch, but the combo of the N800 and FBReader is wonderful for ebooks. If I owned a N810 with outside-capable transflective screen, I might have never gotten my Sony. The Linux software is by no means "buggy and unreliable" and there's an excellent forum dedicated to tablet support:
Internet Tablet Talk