Joshua Hutchinson wrote:
You might be more pleased with the results on a PDA if you try an HTML edition of the book as opposed to the Text versions. In my experience, the simplified web browser in most PDAs is quite up to the task of formatting the text to nicely fit on a PDA screen. It is the hard return marks in the text files that cause the line length issues you've seen.
Whereas I take the opposite tack and use the plain text version coupled with Weasel ( http://gutenpalm.sourceforge.net/ ). It has an autoscroll mode that fills the screen from top to bottom and then wraps around to start filling from the top again--so by the time you reach the bottom of a screenful, the top has new text. It rewraps the text for you (with a couple of options on how to do it) so line length's not an issue. I find reading on a computer much less convenient simply because there isn't good software. With lighter laptops and especially tablets the hardware side is less of an issue; the bulkiness of a tablet per unit screen area probably isn't worse than a PDA or DVD player. There are workarounds for using portable DVD players. Most of them play VCD's and one can make VCD's that are a sequence of stills. I'm sure similar hacks are possible with DVD's as well, and it's always possible to create a movie of scrolling text. But the resolution wouldn't be much better than a modern PDA, and there'd be a lot of work involved in setting up such a system. If you're looking for the most "booklike" solution, a tablet PC is probably it. A PDA is the most cost-effective approach, which gives a slightly different "feel" to reading but one that I find just as enjoyable. Good luck, and I hope you find something that works for you. __________________________________ Discover Yahoo! Use Yahoo! to plan a weekend, have fun online and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/