Comments on: My $75 eBay bargain: Palm-OS Dana offers e-reading—and easy typing for annotations http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/my-75-ebay-bargain-palm-os-dana-offers-e-reading-and-easy-typing-for-annotations/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:23:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tilo http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/my-75-ebay-bargain-palm-os-dana-offers-e-reading-and-easy-typing-for-annotations/comment-page-1/#comment-1163621 Tilo Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:43:44 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/11/27/my-75-ebay-bargain-palm-os-dana-offers-e-reading-and-easy-typing-for-annotations/#comment-1163621 My Dana is kept near the bed when I am in the middle of writing articles. Good things occur to me in the night. Switch Dana on, no booting up, so ready to go. Write, switch off, autosaved. Very simple. Neither my netbook or pda can't match that, or the full-size (evidently Samsung) keyboard, which I like the feel of. In some lights, Dana's not easy to read even with the backlight on. But good battery life, yea! The Dana suits me brilliantly for some purposes. My Dana is kept near the bed when I am in the middle of writing articles. Good things occur to me in the night. Switch Dana on, no booting up, so ready to go. Write, switch off, autosaved. Very simple. Neither my netbook or pda can’t match that, or the full-size (evidently Samsung) keyboard, which I like the feel of. In some lights, Dana’s not easy to read even with the backlight on. But good battery life, yea! The Dana suits me brilliantly for some purposes.

]]> By: Marc http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/my-75-ebay-bargain-palm-os-dana-offers-e-reading-and-easy-typing-for-annotations/comment-page-1/#comment-710745 Marc Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:42:54 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/11/27/my-75-ebay-bargain-palm-os-dana-offers-e-reading-and-easy-typing-for-annotations/#comment-710745 I laid down $75 on eBay for a used Dell Axim x3i PDA and it's been a great deal. I added some mods: -$25 1700mA battery ...I can read in the bathroom/before falling asleep for days and days without recharging, or go 2 days with constant, heavy use. -$25 Hard case ...coming from an old HP Jornada with a nice hard cover, I knew this would be a necessity. I already had a 2GB SD card so I plugged that right in. So for $125 I got a nice light PDA with a great color screen, wireless networking, ~2GB of storage. Also I have found a lot of .lit files so it's nice to have MS Reader capabilities. Mostly I use uBook for reading and it's been great to have for use with Manybooks. I flip pages with the jog dial on the side or the joypad on the front. I didn't really expect to use the wireless, but I've been astounded to find that Google's mobile versions of GMail, Google Reader, etc. are awesome. My only complaint is the fact that there is not a lot of variety of free software on the windows pocket pc platform. If you do want something out of the ordinary, prepare to pay money for it. In my case, the games weren't knocking my socks off, until I downloaded the Nintendo emulator and loaded up some old Golf/Tennis/etc. games :-) I also understand that MilkyTracker is available for the device so I'll try to make some music too. Hope it's ok to post my alternate purchase here - I'm doing so in case anybody else is rushing over to eBay and wants other ideas. I laid down $75 on eBay for a used Dell Axim x3i PDA and it’s been a great deal. I added some mods:

-$25 1700mA battery …I can read in the bathroom/before falling asleep for days and days without recharging, or go 2 days with constant, heavy use.
-$25 Hard case …coming from an old HP Jornada with a nice hard cover, I knew this would be a necessity.

I already had a 2GB SD card so I plugged that right in.

So for $125 I got a nice light PDA with a great color screen, wireless networking, ~2GB of storage. Also I have found a lot of .lit files so it’s nice to have MS Reader capabilities. Mostly I use uBook for reading and it’s been great to have for use with Manybooks. I flip pages with the jog dial on the side or the joypad on the front.

I didn’t really expect to use the wireless, but I’ve been astounded to find that Google’s mobile versions of GMail, Google Reader, etc. are awesome.

My only complaint is the fact that there is not a lot of variety of free software on the windows pocket pc platform. If you do want something out of the ordinary, prepare to pay money for it.

In my case, the games weren’t knocking my socks off, until I downloaded the Nintendo emulator and loaded up some old Golf/Tennis/etc. games :-)

I also understand that MilkyTracker is available for the device so I’ll try to make some music too.

Hope it’s ok to post my alternate purchase here – I’m doing so in case anybody else is rushing over to eBay and wants other ideas.

]]> By: Brian Carnell http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/my-75-ebay-bargain-palm-os-dana-offers-e-reading-and-easy-typing-for-annotations/comment-page-1/#comment-639717 Brian Carnell Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:07:22 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/11/27/my-75-ebay-bargain-palm-os-dana-offers-e-reading-and-easy-typing-for-annotations/#comment-639717 I own way too many Alphasmart products and love them all. I still use my Neo occasionally, but cheap subnotebooks with insane battery life mean I don't use it nearly as often as I used to. I own way too many Alphasmart products and love them all. I still use my Neo occasionally, but cheap subnotebooks with insane battery life mean I don’t use it nearly as often as I used to.

]]> By: Dan Jackson http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/my-75-ebay-bargain-palm-os-dana-offers-e-reading-and-easy-typing-for-annotations/comment-page-1/#comment-639695 Dan Jackson Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:22:18 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/11/27/my-75-ebay-bargain-palm-os-dana-offers-e-reading-and-easy-typing-for-annotations/#comment-639695 I'm also a user of PalmOS for ebook reading - I have a Sony Clie UX50 that I got a while back off of ebay. My main problem with it is battery life, and that's something that seems to be common to many modern portable devices. Sure, the fancy new UMPCs are nice and can do anything you want them to do, but their battery life seems quite a bit worse than that of the less capable devices of yesteryear. I’m also a user of PalmOS for ebook reading – I have a Sony Clie UX50 that I got a while back off of ebay. My main problem with it is battery life, and that’s something that seems to be common to many modern portable devices. Sure, the fancy new UMPCs are nice and can do anything you want them to do, but their battery life seems quite a bit worse than that of the less capable devices of yesteryear.

]]> By: Cerebus http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/my-75-ebay-bargain-palm-os-dana-offers-e-reading-and-easy-typing-for-annotations/comment-page-1/#comment-639693 Cerebus Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:15:58 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/11/27/my-75-ebay-bargain-palm-os-dana-offers-e-reading-and-easy-typing-for-annotations/#comment-639693 I scored a working Newton eMate 300 at Goodwill for $25 (average price on eBay as well), which is arguably superior to the Dana on just about every point. I did have to build a new battery pack (the original would only hold a few hours' charge), but a set of torx, 4 Energizer NiMHs, and a little soldering later and I was good to go. -- C I scored a working Newton eMate 300 at Goodwill for $25 (average price on eBay as well), which is arguably superior to the Dana on just about every point. I did have to build a new battery pack (the original would only hold a few hours’ charge), but a set of torx, 4 Energizer NiMHs, and a little soldering later and I was good to go.

– C

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