I apologize for hammering your inbox, Robert, but Branko has an excellent idea: --- Branko Collin <collin@xs4all.nl> wrote:
A Play Station Portable may approach what you are looking for;
It's a bit pricey for *just* an ebook reader (not that a laptop is cheap), but here are two resources: http://gamefries.blogspot.com/2005/03/how-to-get-e-books-on-your-psp.html http://pdf2psp.sourceforge.net/ It's a "batch of images" approach so you can't search or anything, but it gets the job done. Most of the portable DVD players listed on Amazon also offer JPEG or Kodak Photo CD support, and you could probably use some of the same software as used for the PSP.
There used to be a small computer somewhere halfway between a PDA and a notebook that sounded promising, with wireless ethernet, sub 1-kg weight, 7 inch screen (VGA), and 11 hours of battery life. It was called the Psion Netbook, and it was pretty much stillborn.
The Oqo is similar and is finally "available", at $2600. The ThinkPad X41 would probably be a worthy competitor for e-booking--4 lbs., but 12" screen and "only" $1900. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com