Hi,
After using the Nokia 770 for 2 weeks I started to really appreciate the device and I carry it with me almost everywhere. It improved my reading time considerably since I can snatch now minutes otherwise wasted. I still miss my 80 plus minutes of reading per day that I enjoyed for the past 8 years or so on my train commute (the disadvantage of working 5 minutes from your house
) but finally I am getting to read 2 hours a day again. Ebookwise was and is still a big help, but it does not fit in my pocket so while I would carry it in my car, I would not take it with me say at the train table at B&N where my son can play for 30 minutes by himself
I installed the upgraded firmware from Maemo and indeed it improved my pdf/evince experience. I installed xterm and explored a little bit the internal structure. I installed the memory applet and took some nice screenshots. I got my 1 Gb card on Friday so I started experimenting with partitioning on the 64 Mb one and making a swap file. I finally managed to do it. However to run swap on Nokia you need to be root and unfortunately Colinux does not support USB as of now, so I will try to install some full Linux at some point.
I read 4 full novels and 2 magazines on the Nokia and the only complaint I have is that Fbreader is sometimes slow to load my library and also that I need to exit it to save the last configuration. In general I keep a book on and just slide Nokia from its cover when I want to read and back when I am done, and I charge it once a day. I rarely reboot it. For pdf's I like Evince, though it still gives me occasional memory problems, it is usable and the books are readable. Hopefully activating the swap will help there.
Outside of testing for functionality (it recognized my wireless router immediately and it discovered 2 more networks in my neighbourhood that the laptops in my house do not see), I have never used it to browse the net.
I include 2 screen shots exactly as saved on the device (they are about 3 times bigger than the device but they reflect very well the reading experience).
Liviu