Got a new toy!
Sep. 26th, 2004 12:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kayshapero(Hmm.. that was interesting - I tried using the Rich Text editor and it flatly refused to recognize the enter key. Wouldn't let me copy the text I'd already entered to notepad, either. Try this again with the regular editor...)
OK, return key works. In re subject, after downloading rather an impressive number of ebooks from places like Project Gutenberg, Baen Books , and Cory Doctorow's site (Read Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" sometime - it's fun.), not to mention picking up book discs at the Baen Books party at LOSCON every year, I had so many I would never have the time to read them all off the computer screen (not to mention the fact that who WANTS to spend all their time looking at a computer screen?). So I set out to find a book reader. Wound up picking up a Palm Tungsten T3 which wasn't cheap but has a screen that is not only high definition, but slides out to give you a lot more room than most of the others.
Not only have I caught up on a lot of stuff I want to read, but the gadget is proving handy for other things as well, like keeping track of my glucose readings in an XL file (hitherto I've written 'em down, and typed them into the computer when I got the time... which meant not very often. I'm still writing them down of course, but if I enter them in the file as well, I can reliably email a month or two to my doctor at a time instead of inflicting my handwriting on him when I come in for a checkup. It's taking over a lot of other recordkeeping as well - and it's trivial to back the lot up to the main computer.
OK, return key works. In re subject, after downloading rather an impressive number of ebooks from places like Project Gutenberg, Baen Books , and Cory Doctorow's site (Read Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" sometime - it's fun.), not to mention picking up book discs at the Baen Books party at LOSCON every year, I had so many I would never have the time to read them all off the computer screen (not to mention the fact that who WANTS to spend all their time looking at a computer screen?). So I set out to find a book reader. Wound up picking up a Palm Tungsten T3 which wasn't cheap but has a screen that is not only high definition, but slides out to give you a lot more room than most of the others.
Not only have I caught up on a lot of stuff I want to read, but the gadget is proving handy for other things as well, like keeping track of my glucose readings in an XL file (hitherto I've written 'em down, and typed them into the computer when I got the time... which meant not very often. I'm still writing them down of course, but if I enter them in the file as well, I can reliably email a month or two to my doctor at a time instead of inflicting my handwriting on him when I come in for a checkup. It's taking over a lot of other recordkeeping as well - and it's trivial to back the lot up to the main computer.
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