Comments on: Another break for e-books: Big spike in iPod Touch sales

By: Dorlene Kaplan

Dorlene Kaplan — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 03:06:54 +0000

I switched from the Palm TX to the Touch in September. The Palm was terrific, the Touch is perfect. I’m reading on it every second I’m not doing something else. I’m tickled that the NY Times published my Letter to the Editor in response to their 12/24 front page article about ebooks:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/opinion/l30ebook.html. The tipping point for ebooks is now.

By: Mike Cane

Mike Cane — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:45:37 +0000

Judging from search traffic that leads people to my blog, I’d say for every one Sony Reader, *ten* iPod Touch/iPhones were gotten for Xmas.

That might be a good way for a math geek to suss out Reader holiday sales figures.

By: David Rothman

David Rothman — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:24:00 +0000

Many thanks,Pond. I totally agree, though I still like the Palm as well. I’ll follow up with the post you suggested. Jog me via email if I don’t. David

By: pond

pond — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:54:44 +0000

So, the Touch is your new fave ereading gadget?

I can recall posts on how great the PalmTX was…then it was the XO. Were there others as well along the gadget road?

It would be interesting if you’d write up a retrospective on the ereading devices you’ve had, and what made you love (or hate) them, and what drawbacks prompted you to move on to a new gadget.

We can presume that the Touch will likewise be replaced by something better not yet available.

For myself, my original ereading device was the Diamond Mako, a rebranded Psion Revo Plus. I read many a gutenberg on it, and it remains my favorite. But I dropped it, which broke something in the complex clamshell-opening mechanism. It began crashing also.

I moved on to a Nokia Internet Tablet 800, which I still like (though not as much as the Mako) but is only really good to read using FBReader. But whenever I find a gutenberg (or even Munsey’s) book with scannos or other errors, I feel the irresistible urge to correct them — FBReader doesn’t handle editing.

Of late I’ve been using a Toshiba TabletPC in slate-mode, its 14″ screen in portrait orientation. Works excellently on gutenberg text editions. I launch jEdit which keeps several texts in memory, and recalls my place on the current book. Right now I’m in Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch’s short stories.