Best ebook reader

[d000hg]

I want something like the 'electronic clipboards' the engineers carry around in star-trek. Look like a laptop-size iphone.

I wonder if laptops without keyboards will ever take off... touch-screen for mouse and typing alike.

[Moscow Mule]

Look like a laptop-size iphone.

Q1 2010.

[bogeyman]

I want something like the 'electronic clipboards' the engineers carry around in star-trek. Look like a laptop-size iphone.

I wonder if laptops without keyboards will ever take off... touch-screen for mouse and typing alike.

I'm still waiting for a hand-writing recognition system that works.

It's a big ask, I know.

Is it just around the corner?

As an early adopter of the Apple Newton, I would have to say 'no' !

http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/retr...0s/930827.html

Have tried Palm and other 'hand writing' interfaces since, and they all suck donkey balls.

'Typing' by tapping on a screen with a stylus is just frustrating and infantile.

[cailin maith]

I'm still waiting for a hand-writing recognition system that works.

It's a big ask, I know.

Is it just around the corner?

As an early adopter of the Apple Newton, I would have to say 'no' !

http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/retr...0s/930827.html

Have tried Palm and other 'hand writing' interfaces since, and they all suck donkey balls.
'Typing' by tapping on a screen with a stylus is just frustrating and infantile.

Interesting turn of phrase there Bogey....

[voodooflux]

I'm still waiting for a hand-writing recognition system that works.

I recall being pleasantly suprised by how well this worked on my HP iPAQ h4150 some years ago. The recognition was pretty quick and accurate, and improved with time as you "trained" it. Although my handwriting will still pretty legible at that time.

[sasguru]

I thought the kindle was the best in the market now.

Kindle is:

(1)proprietary
(2)AFAIK only in the US

Amazon (kindles) owner have bought STANZA which the e-reader software for the Itouch, which supports the epub format.
So looks like, the standard document format is going to be e-pub.

[AtW]

Buy iPhone and read books in nice colour on the go.

Simples.

HTH

[sasguru]

Buy iPhone and read books in nice colour on the go.

Simples.

HTH

With the nice software that makes the screen look like a book?

[Bright Spark]

probably wait for the asus one which is coming out before christmas
Two colour screens, 3G, web surfing, Skype all for less than £100

[Lumiere]

all for less than £100

I doubt that, there must be a catch somewhere ...