Mine is not so black-and-white.
I want gadgets to use them. But sometimes I've failed O:-).
I've been in a quest for having something to read electronic files for a lot of years.
When I bought my onhandpc watch (which had a DOS clone OS and a 102x64 LCD matrix), one of the first things I did was to read PG books on it. I even coded a plain text reader with a pleasant font et al (4-5 words per line, eight lines per page). And I was very happy until my wife convinced me that it surely wasn't too good for my eyes.
I had tried at the office using a pocketPC and was not impressed. I also tried using a tabletpc (compaq tc1000 with linux, using xpdf), but the screen wasn't too good and it was uneasy to my eyes (BTW, reading in the watch was easy on my eyes, lol!). Thankfully, as those test were with borrowed hardware, no problem.
Then I bought a Newton 2100 (it was the lowest priced "PDA" with a large screen that I was aware at that moment -- I didn't knew of the REB). And that was a flop. The screen contrast was not very good, and the backlight whines... I have only tinkered with it, but not read books on it, that was the aim of the purchase.
And then, came the iliad
. In the first 10 months it had intensive use, both from me and my wife, but now it only has casual use, mainly because the long boot times.
That is, I managed to get some months ago a Zaurus SL-5500, and I use that instead of the iliad when the things I have to read are online html, because of the said boot times of the iliad (the zaurus is ready in less than 2 seconds, and that includes asociating itself to the AP via wifi).
Overall: 4 gadgets, "only" one did not get used
