Hi--

 

Just so you'll know--JAN 31 is THE LAST day that the eBookWise 1500 will be priced at $99. I don't know what it will go to after that, but the original price, when the device had a different name, was about $300.

 

With the sincerest apologies to my Rocket, which has been close to my heart for the last five years, I now like the 1500 better. It's a very fine machine, and with the expenditure of another $60 for peripherals, which I got a couple of weeks ago but have not yet installed, it will hold over 300 books. It also allows editing in my normal handwriting, allowing me to insert extra blank pages to write on if necessary.

 

We are still recovering from my husband's having fried his computer last Monday. This has involved the expenditure of about $600 (would have been a lot more if we hadn't found a complete desktop system for $299 with a one-year commitment to AOL, which is what we use anyway) and the moving of a total of about 40 gigabytes of programs and data, all of which I have been doing. I hope to be through sometime next week. But I'm not going to complain too much, because since my desktop expired last year I've been using my laptop as my main computer. Now I get to keep the brand new desktop and my laptop goes to my husband, who greatly prefers laptops. As I greatly prefer a desktop, we're both happy. I'll be glad to be able to get back to doing real work, though.

 

Anyway, if you go February 1 to get an ebook reader and go into acute sticker shock, don't say I didn't warn you. If you don't want a ebook reader it doesn't matter anyway. My husband is one of those people who has given an ebook reader a real try-out and doesn't like it, so I know such people exist.

 

Anne