i love books, i guess i always have - but i have way too many of them. and especially tech books - they become obsolete almost immediately. i've tried a few e-book systems in the past, and they just haven't worked for me - until now.
o'reilly's safari is great for tech books. i use this almost exclusively for any tech reference these days. the biggest shortcoming is the lack of being able to reference books offline. at the premium levels, you can get chits for checking out a chapter at a time off-line, but this doesn't really help for airline flights and such. otherwise, the small monthly fee is well worth what i would have paid shelling out $40+ per book.
for pleasure reading, i'm really liking mobipocket on the nokia 7610. as an experiment, i'm trying to read "the davinci code" and it's working out really well. now, this is a book written at the third grade reading level with short chapters, but it's great for reading in short chunks. if this is successful, i'll try to tackle neil stephenson's "quicksilver."
anyone that knows me knows i have an attention span of using a mobile phone for about two weeks. mobipocket might be the sticky application that keeps me on the 7610 for awhile.
Posted by Steve at July 28, 2004 10:31 AM | TrackBack