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Originally Posted by HarryT
The original mono Palm devices (the ones which ran off two AAA batteries) did have a great battery life, but they were pretty awful readers. You could only see about 10 words on the screen!
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I have had a long and comfortable love affair with Palm devices. I wanted them to take over the world, but it was not to be. I have read many ebooks on this screen:
Note that each line displays more than 30 characters with maybe 16 or so lines. If you are reading a newspaper or other material formatted into columns, it is a comfortable width. Some of the Palms had backlighting, and some did not.
I keep a Palm device at home in case I am caught short of a reading device. The reading software is free. I recently bought one for $5 in a thrift store. If you have a friend with a limited budget, pick up one of these with a cradle, download the
Palm Desktop and
reader software, download some books, and you have a great gift that will give untold hours of pleasure.