[svlug] $400 ultraportable linux boxes

[Sridhar Iyer]

If you only need to a mobile device only for reading.. I would suggest
amazon's kindle or sony's ebook reader. They have great battery life (i
think about a week).. plus they use eInk so you wont strain your eyes
reading a book(not a back lit screen.. just looks like paper). Kindle is
also supposed to have a verizon card and can download newspaper directly
to the device(cost lesser than the paper one)(They did a review on the
latest diggnations video)

Downside is that they are a bit expensive(sony: $300, kindle: $400) 

On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 17:36 -0800, Thomas G. Digby wrote:
> What I'm thinking of is something I can download my poetry onto (as plain
> ASCII *.txt files?) so I don't have to carry a heavy and hard-to-search
> pile of papers around to readings.
> 
> I would probably end up also using it for taking notes and such, but not
> in such volume that would make the keyboard a major issue.
> 
> I'd been leaning toward the OLPC machine.  Would something else be better?
> 
> 
> --
>                        -- Tom Digby
>                        bubbles at well.com
>                        http://www.well.com/~bubbles/ 
> 
> 
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