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[Ethan Dicks]

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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