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Originally Posted by gmaslin
I'm a professional playwright and I've been reviewing this site for about a month now. I need a device to both write and read. The more I keep looking at these ereaders, the more I start thinking that I'll miss the functionality of an integrated unit. I know I'm going to blaspheme here but shouldn't we be looking at pda and smart phones which do ereading adequately? It seems to me the software is what really makes the reader. If you need more pixels then you need a laptop. That is the way I see the whole ereader niche. I think Nate has put us on the right track with his recommendation of the Jornada. I would like to see more effort in this direction. If I'm in the wrong place to discuss portable multipurpose units, would someone be kind enough to suggest another site?
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Yeah, I don't think an ereader would do it for you if you are gonna read and write on the device. Netbook or PC tablet would be better.
Ereader's are just best for pleasure reading or studying notes or maybe reading online type newspapers. Bigger screen and 2 to 3 week battery life with the device left on for 3 weeks is much different than 2-3 hour battery life on all the other devices. And it's easier on eyes. And you can make font sizes to your liking. And having 30-40 books on device saves space. If you limit it to pleasure reading , just like a paper book is just a paper book and not a mp3 player. You are cool. If you want combo device look elsewhere. But in future they will have eink tech in laptops and other devices because of long battery life.
p.s. I guess you could get the 505 and load on your txt file or word doc , that you just wrote , a couple of chapters on the ereader and see how it reads. I do that with my notes and journal, I load it on 505 and it is cool and I have lots of word type docs on reader. It's also great as meditation tool, I load books that are written to get me into mediation mode, read a few sentences and then sit back and PONDER. Not having to worry about battery life is really nice, I couldn't do that with any of my other tech devices. These devices don't use power until you turn the page. The 505 does have bookmarks, so if I see an Idea I like I can bookmark lots of pages, or if I see a mistake I bookmark it, then when I go back to computer correct it on original. So there are ways to use it as an aid to your writing. Also, it remembers your last page of any book and I switch between books in a few seconds which is nice feature. One last good feature is time it takes to turn on device and actually read a book, in laptop and other tech devices it can take up to 1 to 2 mintutes before you actually start reading (turning it on, loading the book), on the 505 it takes 1/2 second and the book is showing the last page of what I read.