Best handheld PDA for reading ebooks

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Small boat, long voyage - e-books on a PDA seem like a good idea.

But which PDA is the best combination for:

~ readability / useability

~ useable in daylight / bright sunlight

~ best battery life

I don't want it to do anything else - already have mp3 player and laptop - I just want it to read books on. Who has practical experience of this and can make a recommendation?

- Nick
 
Will I think this is a really really crap idea, whats wrong with making models of your boat out of matchsticks
 
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~ readability / useability

~ useable in daylight / bright sunlight

~ best battery life

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~ Book
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Re: Why matchstick men are extinct

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Re: Think about it, you unreconstructed luddite

What part of small boat, long voyage do you not understand, Tome? The reason I am looking for a PDA is precisely because I intend to get out much more.

With a PDA the reading experience can be almost identical to that given by a book. The difference is one small device can hold dozens of books, which would take up both shelves in our saloon thereby displacing many other essential items. Pilots ,reference books and a handful of paperbacks will take up all of our available book space, so the PDA with dozens of e-books makes sense.

- Nick
 
Re: Now . . .

I think they are telling you that trying to read a book on a PDA is a horrible way of tackling great works of literature or even a Jeffrey Archer novel.

I've tried reading stuff from a news service on my PDA and it's a dreadful way of reading an article of a few thousand words yet alone a full book.

In answer to your question though, the iPAQ devices are generally regarded as being pretty good.
 
Re: Unreconstructed luddite - like it!

Listen you mingin' binary web encoder. Whilst you've been sat indoors pondering screen imponderables I've been out freezing bolleaux afloat, and looking at a variety of liquid crystals in the pale late winter sunshine. They're all crap compared with a page of print, and you're bound to trip over the wires plus drop them in the bottom of the dinghy where they'll gt wet just as you were getting to the vinegar stroke bit in chapter 4

I rest my case
 
Re: Now . . .

Bucking the trend, but possibly no more useful:

Psion series 3 (second hand) several weeks of regular use from a pair of AAs, readable in sunlight, back-light (on 3C & MMX), e-book, sextant sight reduction, and tidal prediction software available cheaply, and can even send email / access web with RS232 modem or IR link to suitable phone.

Deeply un-fashionable, but I don't believe there is anything to touch it available now (IMHO) - everything is too PC dependant with (I'm struggling for an adjective here, but the best I can do is) laughably short battery life.

I would be <span style="color:red"> D</span> <span style="color:yellow"> E</span> <span style="color:blue"> L <span style="color:yellow"> </span> I</span> <span style="color:purple"> G <span style="color:green"> </span> H</span> <span style="color:brown"> T </span> <span style="color:orange"> E <span style="color:red"> </span> D</span> if someone could prove me wrong.

Andy
 
Re: Now . . .

The Psions were superb but, sadly, they fell by the wayside and new technology has taken over.

I've got two old Psions in the corner of a cupboard somewhere.
 
Re: Now . . .

Not arguing, but has any of this "new technology" got a battery life that is quoted in days (or weeks), rather than hours?

Would love to find something..... /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

Andy
 
Re: Now . . .

No....but the old Psions didn't have the graphics, colours or brightness of the new stuff. I'm not sure that we really need it all though!
 
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