The iPod nano screen: If you really want to read e-books off one…
OK, so Mike’s joked about the Japanese going blind reading off the iPod nano. But might some brave Americans want to try this anyway? Reportedly the 1.5-inch diagonal screen “is extremely sharp at 176×132 and a dot pitch of 0.168mm. Colors are vibrant and text is sharp, giving a great impression of the Mac’s Aqua theme.” So can Apple’s latest models use the iPod notes format? If so and if you own one, head on over to ManyBooks.net and you’ll find a wealth of books there. Let me know what you think. And what’s battery life like if you use the iPod as an e-book machine? Related: More on iPod notes.
September 25th, 2005 at 11:56 am
Text may be sharp, but my aging eyes found it hell to try to read, even for menu choices and song titles. I’d have to pass on the nano just for this reason alone (putting aside that I really need 60GB minimum storage…).
September 25th, 2005 at 12:03 pm
Thanks, Mike. Let’s see what the TeleBlog’s younger readers have to say. – David
September 25th, 2005 at 7:23 pm
Bah! Youth is wasted on the young.
They don’t read.
And when they do, they read crap.
I know. I used to be young, a trillion years ago.
October 1st, 2006 at 11:36 am
I love it. I jus got the ipod nano second generation and have to say that the “Notes” feature on the nano is great. I use it to make study cards or even convert whole pdf files to text and read of it. The screen is pinpoint sharp and bright. I have to agree that reading of this tiny screen for more then an our can quite intimidate your sences,lol but hey for short Notes and reminders this is just great.
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Nano 4 is too light thin for me, I will easily lose or break this. Anyone agree ?
September 17th, 2009 at 4:31 am
Hmmm… sounds as though my issue will be downloading books and then converting them to plain text. I already spend large amounts of time converting audio books from wave files to mp3 and putting them on my player. Don’t know that I really want to add to the number of hours I am doing computer work to get portable books…
October 24th, 2009 at 1:03 am
I have a Nano 3rd Gen, and the only ebooks I can put onto it are notes. But there is some sort of word limit, and the format always goes weird. Is there any way to get around this? Because although I can read what’s writen on the screen, right now, none of it’s making any sence.