Forget the netbook, forget the Droid, forget all that. The one and only gizmo I want is an eReader.
For the last year, I’ve been using this free program called CutePDF to save interesting stuff I find on the web. It’s very simple: whenever you choose to print a document, you simply point it to CutePDF, and it saves it as a PDF. This works for anything that can be printed.
I haven’t been reading them, though. There’s an e-stack of articles and documents I want to read, but I’ll be damned if I sit in front of the PC to read a 45 page tome on World War II, for instance.
Everybody and their mother is producing e-Readers (Barnes and Noble being the latest one) but all are in the $150+ price range. If the Inquirer offered to subsidize something like that if I took up a newspaper subscription, I would be all over it… provided that they upload the latest paper in a timely fashion, unlike their delivery service which had the paper nowhere near my house after the time I left for work.
I read at a decent clip. PDA screens are a bit to small to read books properly. I tried reading Siddhartha on such a screen… it didn’t last for more than three minutes.
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