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Originally Posted by radleyp
Understood, but this has been possible for years with most PDA's, and I can tell you that, reading in broad daylight apart, I think eink is only marginally better than other ereading systems. To me (and my family and friends, all of us readers) the Sony ads are brainless: no one NEEDS to carry so many books around, so this is not a selling point, yet it keeps being repeated here as if it were. Sony is once more demonstrating the developer's habit of providing solutions to problems that don't exist.
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Fair enough, but there evidently are a lot of folks who do see enough of an advantage, or at least a desirability to it that they opt to go with the Reader. Nobody's talking about replacing any of the other options on anything other than a personal level (like I've stopped e-reading on my Palm). If you're happy with the PDA or whatever other option that you're using, more power to ya. I don't see any reason for anyone to change what they're already doing, unless
they see a reason to do so.
Funny RPN calculators should come up. I have right here an HP 35 (no a, b, c, or bloody d) from the seventies, I'd guess (it says "Made in the U.S.A" and "Patent
Pending" on the back). I've no idea if it works as I haven't got any way to power it up, but I do know it uses the old-fashioned, pre-LCD segmented displays. Wouldn't have any idea what to do with it if it did work, actually, never got very far with RPN.
