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RWood · 05-27-2007, 11:40 PM

Before I got the Sony Reader I too used a Palm; but my Palm was in a cell phone by Samsung, the i500. Now this did start me out on mobile reading with its 13 line screen with about 32 characters per line. Always in black on white, I used both eReader and Mobi. Each had advantages over the other so I kept both. This allowed me to read one book in each and switch back and forth as the spirit moved me. (One was an ISO 9000 standards manual that is still there.) Nothing has been added in over 6 months.

I still keep some pulp fiction on the phone I have been working on one old BlackMask file for a couple of months now. After settling in with the Sony e-ink screen it is hard to go back to the coarse LCD screen. Thankfully you have a far better screen on your Palm. My Godson has the same model and likes it better than my Sony.

I did most of my book prep in ABC Amber Text Converter for the Palm so I still have the original source files. I still ship files over to him in PDB format although of late he has asked what other formats I can supply them in.

Congratulations of finding a pair of reader programs that you like. eReader is fast, light, and very responsive.

05-27-2007, 11:40 PM	#2
RWood Technogeezer Posts: 7,233 Karma: 1601464 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Virginia, USA Device: Sony PRS-500	Before I got the Sony Reader I too used a Palm; but my Palm was in a cell phone by Samsung, the i500. Now this did start me out on mobile reading with its 13 line screen with about 32 characters per line. Always in black on white, I used both eReader and Mobi. Each had advantages over the other so I kept both. This allowed me to read one book in each and switch back and forth as the spirit moved me. (One was an ISO 9000 standards manual that is still there.) Nothing has been added in over 6 months. I still keep some pulp fiction on the phone I have been working on one old BlackMask file for a couple of months now. After settling in with the Sony e-ink screen it is hard to go back to the coarse LCD screen. Thankfully you have a far better screen on your Palm. My Godson has the same model and likes it better than my Sony. I did most of my book prep in ABC Amber Text Converter for the Palm so I still have the original source files. I still ship files over to him in PDB format although of late he has asked what other formats I can supply them in. Congratulations of finding a pair of reader programs that you like. eReader is fast, light, and very responsive.