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Originally Posted by animedude01

...a tablet PC, but from what I have read, they're underwhelming.

Yeah, underwhelming for sure, and over priced. Just too big, bulky and hot for reading, and too short of battery life.

Hopefully some less powerful tablets designed just for reading pdfs, magazines etc. and some lite functions like PDA and web surfing will remedy that down the road.

Of course there's always something better just around the corner.

Very true. But in the large screen e-reader devices it's probably worth waiting to at least see how the Que pans out, given details will be revealed in just a couple of weeks.

It's really the case that there's not a solid device for a reasonable price out their for most people--so I'm more apt to suggest people to wait than I am with small readers for novels where current readers get the job done.

You have to look at what you want, what you have to spend (not what you want to spend, but what is your actual budget), and then do a cost/benefit analysis. Don't forget to include things like the ability to take all your textbooks to the cafe to study with.

Yep, everyone just has to match their needs and budget with a device that fits them.

For me, for a large screen device, it has to come damn close to paper printouts of PDFs in terms of ease of highlighting and jotting notes in the margins, ease of flipping through to find sections when writing articles and needing to cite something etc.

So e-ink is completely out of the question due to how slow and laggy it is for note taking, flipping through documents etc. And tablet/slate PCs are too big, bulky and expensive. So I'm stuck waiting for some thinner, lighter tablet designed for reading mainly with PDA and web etc. tacked on that can over come those short comings by not needing so much power for other functions.

For others, maybe they just need to read PDFs and don't care about flipping through them, marking them up etc. And for them a Kindle DX may fit their needs.

So it's definitely to each, their own. But I definitely at least say wait until early January for details on the Que and anything else announced at CES before taking the plunge since that's just right around the corner.

You may find that the DR1000 is what you want. You may also find that it's too expensive and a netbook will do the job just fine, and couple that with a less expensive e-reader for occasional jaunts.