Since about a week, I have a Sony PRS-600 Digital Book Reader,
and I like it quite a lot.

It has an e-ink screen (just needing power to flip pixels, which can result
in it showing a ghost of an old image, even when switched off) with touch-
screen, about 400MB usable internal RAM, card slots for SD and Memorystick,
and can handle plain text, PDF, EBOOK, RTF and some other strange formats,
JPEG, GIF, PNG and some more image formats, and play MP3 (and AAC methinks).
To load data onto it, one has to mount it via USB, and then the internal
memory as well as the extension cards show up as drives - no WiFi etc like
Kindle&Co have, but on the other hand, you know what exactly is going on
with the machine. I do hate things with remote controlled DRM etc - yikes!
It's battery should last for two or three weeks (or rather some thousands of
virtual page flips, as this is the action that is mostly power consuming),
but I guess I would need some long vacation to find that out!

I am using it mainly to read PDFs of scientific articles, reference
material for my projects, and plain text newsletters.

For the newsletters, I set up a combination of procmailrc and shell
scripts on SDF, and some scripts on my local machine, which copy
the relevant and new data. The data gets transferred from SDF to
my local machine via a dedicated Gopher subdirectory (not showing
up in my Gopherspace for copyright reasons - I am not allowed to
republish the newsletters). This has the nice side-effect that I
can read them even from another machine online.

If I find time and motivation, I will post the important pieces of
these scripts in here.
But now I have to catch a bus and read the new issues on the go! :-)


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