[johnawebb]

Howdy.

I'm a writer and would like to be more mobile, for longer, than a laptop currently allows me. Many of my contemporaries still swear by the twenty-plus year old technology of the AlphaSmart, but I'd like more. I'm surprised there isn't already a viable option for this, but I guess it's a pretty limited market.

I keep having this wild thought that I'd have it made with a Nook Simple Touch, rooted to android, with a full size keyboard. My ideal setup would run an android text editor like JotterPad, would work with an external full-size keyboard, and be wifi enabled so I could use a browser to look up references. I don't care much about pics, and not at all about video. My thought is that I could get hours longer use out of it, even typing to the screen. As I understand it, a Nook Simple Touch doesn't have bluetooth, so I guess the keyboard would need to plug in? Is this too wild a dream?

If anyone has any thoughts about whether this is possible, or it being a good or bad idea, could you school me? Like many writers, I'm pretty well flat broke and would hope to have a viable plan before I started investing in a dead end pursuit.

Thanks!

John