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Old 10-02-2009, 09:44 PM   #11
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Welcome Rick. Honestly I've not read your intro yet, but I too am a ham and have been for some 40+ years. I'm WB0E A fellow Coloradan as well. I've been a Science Fiction fan for longer than being a ham, but read mostly mainstream, classics and SFF now, but will try just about anything. I'm libertarian/independent politically.

I've been in the computer/electronic business almost as long as the above and have been watching the EBook world for about 20 years now. I only bought my first EBook reader about a month ago though - a Sony 505 (which I highly recomment -- I just bought a second one on clearance at Target) and also have a 5" Astak Pocket Pro. After looking at the readers (Kindle marketing/Amazon got me interested) but finding that Kindle was proprietary and unable to read the EPub format (which I see as the emerging standard and winner in the long run -- particularly since Sony is moving to it) I went with the EPub enabled readers.

See ya round the forum or the State.
I was using a Lifedrive PDA for awhile... but honestly, the reason I got the bigger kindle is my damned eyes... they are going bad on me. Well, ok, they have been bad a long time a 4" screen is completely insufficient.

Bifocals or not, I take my glasses off to read now. lol
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