[Robotech_Master]

Originally Posted by barryem

I'm another one who's read a LOT of ebooks on Palms. The first 3 Palms I owned had 3" screens if I recall, with 160x160 resolution. I won't guess how many books I've read on those but it was certainly in the hundreds.

Hear, hear!

I later got a Palm Tungsten, I forget which model but it was the cheaper one, with 320x320 resolution and I liked that a lot more but I was fine with the older ones.

For me it was one of the Cliés. First I got the monochrome LCD one with the 320x320, then a color 320x320. Man, I thought I was in heaven! It was the retina display of its day.

Originally Posted by 4691mls

I could probably live with the resolution, but I think the small screen size would be annoying - you'd be constantly turning pages.

You'd be surprised. Palm Pilot screens held even less text, especially if you used one of the fancy serif fonts that you had to make bigger to read. And they used resistive touchscreens that needed a stylus for the best accuracy in tapping. But as the next guy says:

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

When it's a GOOD book, who notices???

Indeed. Ludic reading really is a kind of a miracle, because once you get sucked in, you don't even notice the screen size or additional page turns. Just like you stop noticing that glowing red EXIT sign right next to the movie screen if it's a good film.

edit: it's not like it's *difficult* to turn the pages, like a tiny physical book would be!

As anyone who's ever read a Gideon New Testament would know...