Been doing a bit of spring cleaning around the house. Following through on some new years resolutions.

Decided to not be so precious about books. I love them. Would dearly like to have a room to dedicate to a library. Lovely idea but dead weight in reality.

So I’ve been purging all the books that aren’t near and dear to me. Well at least that I think I might re-read anyways. Shifting a third of them out.

As a side thought, I’ve been eyeing off those e-book readers. Dymocks have gone into it in a big way. The only problem is that they’re selling the Iliad reader for eight hundred and ninety nine dollars.

I’d tried to locate the Sony reader in Japan whilst I was there. But had no luck. Not even at the Sony store. The Iliad has more that I want. From what I’ve read its not that flexible.

The ASUS eeePC could probably do the trick. Its small and light. However the screen is small and the form factor really isn’t conducive of reading on the bus or train. The newer model with the larger screen looks serviceable.

That currently leaves me with the Ipod Touch which I own. The chief issue is that the only reader is a builtin PDF reader in the mail app. I needed to drop twenty five dollars to obtain it and a number of other apps. Lets not go into this issue again.

The multitouch interface serves well for reading. Being able to magnify text at a sweep. Both portrait and landscape reading.

Graphics come up well. However the overall screen size is small. Reading comics may be difficult as it would require much touching to get through a page. So to speak.

But mailing a document to read ? I guess thats easier than most other methods. Although I can’t see why they didn’t just make the pdf viewer available generally.

Its a good start. I’ll give it a go around and abouts to see if it serves.

Definitely looking forward to the App Store. Perhaps the forthcoming WWDC will provide further details. There appear to be developers galore in line so it will be interesting to see how they compare to the existing apps available.

A document viewer must be in there somewhere. Either from Apple or a third party.

Using the Itunes store on the Touch is a revelation. So I can only imagine the App Store will be the same. As a delivery and payment mechanism it should be seamless.

Apple are going to go to the bank.

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