jkOntheRun finds a new ebook reader
By Paul Biba
This looks like an interesting gadget and it’s available from dynamism for $600. I am sorely tempted to pick one up, but I think I’ll wait and see what else is in the pipeline. Now that I’ve converted to Mac I really find Windows even more annoying and stupid every day. Nevertheless, take a look at the article.
I read a lot of e-books, if you follow the Mobile Tech Manor column I do weekly you know just how much I enjoy reading e-books. I have long been an advocate of reading books on my mobile phone and I still read a lot on my phone as it’s the one gadget that is always with me. Having recently picked up the Viliv S5 Premium UMPC I can tell you that this handheld computer is becoming my favorite device for reading e-books. Let me tell you why. …
I have no qualms reading on the phone, it’s a good reading experience and both the Kindle and eReader programs on the iPhone are pretty darn good. But once I started reading a lot on the S5 UMPC I quickly came to appreciate how much better the experience is given how much reading I do. The high resolution display can put a lot of text on the page and I can read it in any lighting condition which is crucial. The UMPC is handheld and while it is obviously heavier than the phone it is not uncomfortably so and reading in portrait orientation fits the hand nicely. I find I can read for long periods without any adverse vision effects, probably due to that big screen.
June 2nd, 2009 at 10:01 am
Six hundred freaking dollars, though? You’ve got a lot more “fun money” than I do? I’m going for a “netbook” for a lot less. There’s a lot of bells and whistles on that gadget that I don’t want to pay for.
June 2nd, 2009 at 10:02 am
Actually that should be “You’ve got a lot more ‘fun money’ than I do!”, not “?”…