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PDA for PDFs?
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capn_frank
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I have an Amazon Kindle DX on order.
It's supposed to ship next Monday with arrival by the end of the week.
I'll be doing lots of testing and post pictures and a review after I get it.
Cap'n Frank
It's supposed to ship next Monday with arrival by the end of the week.
I'll be doing lots of testing and post pictures and a review after I get it.
Cap'n Frank
mach1.9pants
Hero
To the above, I reckon that is the best of both worlds. The size is ideal... not available ot many of us, though 
However it is not quite what I wanted, so I am upgrading to the larger DR1000S iRex. If I could get a DX I'd get that but I can't. The reason I am upgrading is because if you use a lot of PDFs an eReader is awesome, and much better than any nettop. They are light (my eSlick is lighter than my mobile), very easy on the eyes and have good battery life. They don't heat up etc etc. But (unlike a nettop) they are one trick ponies. The convenience of a eReader is enormous, but you pay the cost in $$$$$ for a specialised tool.
I was printing out my eDun and eDrag at work, for cost, on the colour laser. However just 2 or so years of DDi is the same price as a DR1000S so I went for a reader. For printing you also have the hassle of binding etc, and the time (takes a whole morning to do a dozen mags). So if you are printing your PDFs, and lots of them, for anything but free an eReader is going to be cheaper in the long run.
My thoughts on the eSlick: Got my eSlick... - MobileRead Forums
I have one and it is a great little tool, loads quick and very very light. The only problem I have is that it is JUST to small to comfortably read eDungeon and eDragon mags One page per 6" screen. You can happily read to text on clear backgrounds, but text that is on shaded areas is very difficult ... bear in mind we are talking about reading a FULL A4 sheet on a 6" screen. So you can either crop it (which takes time) or live with it. It is also really cheap
However it is not quite what I wanted, so I am upgrading to the larger DR1000S iRex. If I could get a DX I'd get that but I can't. The reason I am upgrading is because if you use a lot of PDFs an eReader is awesome, and much better than any nettop. They are light (my eSlick is lighter than my mobile), very easy on the eyes and have good battery life. They don't heat up etc etc. But (unlike a nettop) they are one trick ponies. The convenience of a eReader is enormous, but you pay the cost in $$$$$ for a specialised tool.
I was printing out my eDun and eDrag at work, for cost, on the colour laser. However just 2 or so years of DDi is the same price as a DR1000S so I went for a reader. For printing you also have the hassle of binding etc, and the time (takes a whole morning to do a dozen mags). So if you are printing your PDFs, and lots of them, for anything but free an eReader is going to be cheaper in the long run.
My thoughts on the eSlick: Got my eSlick... - MobileRead Forums
freyar
Extradimensional Explorer
I have one and it is a great little tool, loads quick and very very light. The only problem I have is that it is JUST to small to comfortably read eDungeon and eDragon mags One page per 6" screen. You can happily read to text on clear backgrounds, but text that is on shaded areas is very difficult ... bear in mind we are talking about reading a FULL A4 sheet on a 6" screen. So you can either crop it (which takes time) or live with it. It is also really cheap
However it is not quite what I wanted, so I am upgrading to the larger DR1000S iRex. If I could get a DX I'd get that but I can't. The reason I am upgrading is because if you use a lot of PDFs an eReader is awesome, and much better than any nettop. They are light (my eSlick is lighter than my mobile), very easy on the eyes and have good battery life. They don't heat up etc etc. But (unlike a nettop) they are one trick ponies. The convenience of a eReader is enormous, but you pay the cost in $$$$$ for a specialised tool.
I was printing out my eDun and eDrag at work, for cost, on the colour laser. However just 2 or so years of DDi is the same price as a DR1000S so I went for a reader. For printing you also have the hassle of binding etc, and the time (takes a whole morning to do a dozen mags). So if you are printing your PDFs, and lots of them, for anything but free an eReader is going to be cheaper in the long run.
My thoughts on the eSlick: Got my eSlick... - MobileRead Forums
Thanks for your thoughts and the linked review. It's good to hear from somebody who actually has one! Sounds like it'll be great for my D&D PDF backlog and avoiding printing stuff at work, too.
jamorea
Explorer
Please do. I thought my wife ordered me one but she's apparently waiting until my birthday a few months away. I'm really curious how it handles PDFs with its native support.
Anthraxus
Explorer
I've found a bunch of "netbooks" under $200, if you'd like Linux/Ubuntu. Even WinXP versions just over $200.
mach1.9pants
Hero
Well I work in IT so I have tried every sort of net/note book and apple PoS as well. Tiny Sony's, ultra thin this and that, and ultra cheap eeeeeeeekPCs etc etc. None of them compare to the eReaders for reading. At the games table a laptop is much better, many times. Colour, cheapness, speed and better at multiple books opened.
But if you actually want to sit on the sofa/bus/train/bed/bog and read, rather than use in game, an eReader cannot be beaten. Just try and 'curl up' with a laptop.. pouring out heat, battery only lasting a few hours, weighing a lot (even the lightest), straining the eyes (unlike e-ink) and having the annoying opened up shape (although a couple are soon coming out which will be tablet netbooks, they'll be better but still not as good).
But you pay for this convenience, in the same way I pay for the hardcover rulebooks even though all the info is on DDi. It is only a reader, although the DR1000S has a wacom stylus and I can scrawl notes on it. But, as I said above, within 2 years of colour laser printing and binding with plastic rings my DDi mags I will have paid off the cost of the eReader... and helped save the environment
This does not take into account all those other things I have: 3PP, free stuff (I can finally read through OSRIC etc) and rulebooks/modules (at least up until the most recent ones )So, IMO, a netbook can be beaten, convincingly beaten, by an eReader doing what an eReader is made for.
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