Comments on: $169 netbook; Calibre tutorial; News readers for the iPhone http://www.teleread.org/2009/01/18/169-netbook-calibre-tutorial-rss-readers-for-the-iphone/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:28:28 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Patrick Perez http://www.teleread.org/2009/01/18/169-netbook-calibre-tutorial-rss-readers-for-the-iphone/comment-page-1/#comment-1005149 Patrick Perez Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:00:10 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=15464#comment-1005149 Although I primarily read E on a Sony PRS 505, I just purchased an Asus EEE PC 900A at Best Buy on Friday for $200. The device is vastly superior to the Belco unit described above. A replacement SSD was as easy to install as removing two screws (well, 2 more on the SSD card itself). Like the Belco unit, it runs Linux. As well, a large community exists for the EEE family of mini notebooks. I won't bore everyone with the specifications, I just wanted to point out that the mini notebooks are finally getting inexpensive and useful enough to be no-brainer carry everywhere devices. For less than the cost of an iPod Touch I have more storage (SDHC) and the ability to run anything on a large screen. Patrick Although I primarily read E on a Sony PRS 505, I just purchased an Asus EEE PC 900A at Best Buy on Friday for $200. The device is vastly superior to the Belco unit described above. A replacement SSD was as easy to install as removing two screws (well, 2 more on the SSD card itself). Like the Belco unit, it runs Linux. As well, a large community exists for the EEE family of mini notebooks. I won’t bore everyone with the specifications, I just wanted to point out that the mini notebooks are finally getting inexpensive and useful enough to be no-brainer carry everywhere devices. For less than the cost of an iPod Touch I have more storage (SDHC) and the ability to run anything on a large screen.

Patrick

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