KNEW it!
I just knew this would happen, I did!
Engadget noted last week that FINALLY there are some ebook readers coming out that are under $300 with Wifi and the usual ebook readers compatabilities. YAY!!!! This is what I’ve wanted all along. Of course I have my PDA and its only a few months old. 
I like my PDA. I use my PDA all the time but for three things only really–reading, my calendar and checking my emails. Since it goes wherever I go, the Family calendar is always with me too and since I’m always going in three different directions…this is awesome! I can use the PDA for tons of other things but don’t. I like that I could though. 
I look at these new ereaders coming out with wifi and think several things.
- I had THOUGHT I’d be buying books directly to my PDA and wanted wifi for that reason. Well otherthan maybe two books, all have been bought while on the computer and then transferred to my PDA. Why? Because looking for books while on the PDA is not fun. The screen is way too small. Its possible but a pain. So I guess in one sense I wonder, would I want the ereader to be compatible with my computer? Yes. Though if the screen is bigger…maybe that wouldn’t be an issue. Maybe then I would buy more directly onto the PDA.
- One thing though, I’ve always wanted versatility…being able to buy while on the computer or the PDA was one of its selling points to me. I didn’t/don’t want to be boxed in, restricted. So the new reader would HAVE to do this for me.
- Calendar. I have my calendar on there, coordinated from my computer and considering I’m using it all the time, I’d want that to still be possible without having to ‘reenter’ the information(I am NOT entering all that stuff twice).
- I check my emails with the PDA all the time–I’d want to be able to do that too.
- I LOVE the bigger size –I’ve always been sold on the bigger size.
Someday I might retire my PDA–in the meantime, I’m excited to see the readers heading in what I consider to be the right direction both in capabilities and price. YAY!
Subscribe to this blog
wow, you not only have a PDA-but you use it as well! I barely know how to retrieve my voice mails from my cell! LOL
I want a Kindle, but I want to wait for awhile and see if those prices come down. Competition might lead to that. Hmm… We’ll see.
I want a PDA to read e-books on, but I’m too cheap to spend $100+ for one. Do you know where I can get one for around $25.? Is that even possible?
LOL Carine — I have a PDA and I do use it but the longer I have it the more I learn and am realizing that the new phones they have out there would have suited me just fine — would have given me my calendar access, email, phone, ect… and that maybe a regular reader would have been the way to go after all.
BUT I didn’t know much about phones then. I’m only just now learning and realizing that much of what my pda can do, the phone can do. AND much of what the pda can do, I would never sit and take the time to do on it–too small. It works for reading though. And for now at least until my new phone’s 2 year contract is up, things shall stay the way they are. Maybe by then the ereaders will have come down in price, be a bit more compatible with things and I will be able to justify..kind of
spending the money on a new contraption to read books on. 
Cole
Hi Annalee!
I can’t decide which I want more…the Kindle or the Sony. Both have pro’s and con’s. And since I do have the PDA now, I guess I shouldn’t have any problem waiting until the prices do come down. OR they come out with an eReader which combines the best of the those two.
Cole
LOL Nancy…no I don’t think that is possible yet. I wish it were! But…with time I do predict the prices will come down. You might be able to get a used one for quite a bit cheaper. I know of at least one person over at the Harlequin boards who bought a second hand reader and has had really great luck with it.
Cole