05-12-2011, 07:25 AM
For this price you can buy a Winodws7 (or XP) tablet PC (1.66Ghz, 1GB RAM - parameters as netbook, but much thinner without the hardware keyboard). You can run on it almost every Windows compatible software.
For good reading you need as big screen as possible (> 4"), high resolution (>VGA), software to read. The last one is the problem for complex PDF files, scanned JBIG compressed PDFs, DjVu. Ordinary ASCII TXT files are not problem at all on any device. Specialized black-white screen readers are not supposed to display proprietary formats, as the compression ant formatting needs an OS to run the process.
i would recommend you to buy a Tablet PC (Windows 7 based) as the price is below 400 USD, and it can substitute a notebook, is you already don't have such. You can start Autocad, MS Excel etc. on it. The big problem of those tablets is that you have not more than few ours battery life. Usually a little bit worse than a netbook, as the batteries are smaller. Those batteries of most of the models are not fast changeable, so you're sticked to the wall socket. Here is the greatest advantage of the ebook-readers - they have superb B/W screens and great battery life.
For good reading you need as big screen as possible (> 4"), high resolution (>VGA), software to read. The last one is the problem for complex PDF files, scanned JBIG compressed PDFs, DjVu. Ordinary ASCII TXT files are not problem at all on any device. Specialized black-white screen readers are not supposed to display proprietary formats, as the compression ant formatting needs an OS to run the process.
i would recommend you to buy a Tablet PC (Windows 7 based) as the price is below 400 USD, and it can substitute a notebook, is you already don't have such. You can start Autocad, MS Excel etc. on it. The big problem of those tablets is that you have not more than few ours battery life. Usually a little bit worse than a netbook, as the batteries are smaller. Those batteries of most of the models are not fast changeable, so you're sticked to the wall socket. Here is the greatest advantage of the ebook-readers - they have superb B/W screens and great battery life.