On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 04:40:14PM -0500, chris wrote:
> >In the meantime, I've used my portable Cybiko as an eBook reader, and a few
> >other trivial tasks.
>
> I know this is going off topic, but how well does it work as an eBook
> reader?
Not terrific. I'd think that any Palm Pilot would be better. I was just
goofing around with the Cybiko, trying to find interesting things to so
with it. No backlight doesn't help for reading in bed.
> I've used my Palm for the text files, but the formatted HTML, and CHM
> files don't work so well on that small of a screen. And my Palm can't
> handle PDF. Is the Cybiko any better of a screen then a Palm? Can it do
> anything beyond plain text?
I would rate the Palm screen as better than the Cybiko screen
-ethan
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