If you want a portable reading device, you can get a PDA and then use a
screen magnifier. They are very good and magnify the typical screen by 5x.
It's still portable, but a lot easier to read. I use one for everything. Here is
my review of one:
"This product is called a
Screen Magnifier.
Officeonthegogo.com are
the only makers and retailers of this part, but I think it's worth it. At a
price of
$29.95US, you can view everything twice the size. How? Designers
made a cradle-type structure that slots onto the back of the Pocket PC. A
magnifying plate is then to hover over the front of it from long arms. Through
this plate users read or use their screen, it not actually touching the screen.
It's a light-weight, easily handled product, compared to using a normal
magnifier you could drop and break. For PALM users, they customise them
to the right size. Because Office On The GoGo make them, they can alter them to
the customers' needs.
There are two types of stands the magnifying plate
is put on. One being a backpack for the PDA, the other a proper stand. The
backpack, as mentioned above, surrounds the PDA shell, where the stand props up
the PDA for those using clip-on or infra-red keyboard. (I know you're wondering
about keyboards - stay tuned for that information in an article coming soon). If
you want both of these stands you can buy the "Magnifico Combo" for
$39.95US. Tell Mike Sirius that Bubble Girl sent you. "
PDA Patrol by Season BubbleGirl
Hope this helps!
Author of A Doggy Diary and the coming autobiography, Life in a
Bubble
Creator of Music Mash, PDA Patrol, and other free literature at
bubblegirl.net
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 10:01
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Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] Ebook reading
devices
enquiries as far as I could, but found no product among the DVD
portable readers that would deal with text, nor was any of the manufacturers
interested in producing one. Apart from the French reader Cybook (which I
think is too expensive for the task and market although otherwise for the
most part ideal) there seems still to be no special ebook reading device
available in UK or the EU generally: laptops are still too big and heavy,
and PDAs still have far too small a screen My enquiries confirmed my strong
impression that there are protectionist interests holding this back,
presumably in the interests of proprietary issues of ebooks.
I suggest you go to eBookWise and FictionWise. Although they do not deal
with DVD portable readers, they are seeking input into what people need and
want, and would be very glad to hear from you.
My husband, two of my daughters, several of my friends, and I all use the
eBookWise reader which you can find for sale for about $100 at eBookWise.com.
By using extra memory cards, you can build immense libraries, or you can use
only the memory built into the device and build an immense library on your
computer, realizing that you'll have to download often. I have six memory
cards and would like to have about sixty more, but they aren't free.
Anne Wingate
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