The Nokia N800, a powerful little e-book-friendly handheld, is now selling for $240 at Buy.com. See our review from earlier this year. The screen is 4.1 inches (800 x 480 res, 65,000 colors).
Alas, Mobipocket and the other commercial programs with DRM capabilities won’t run on the linux-based N800. But you can use FBReader on public domain classics and other nonencrypted work. What’s more, if you live in a country where it’s legal, not the U.S., unfortunately, you can strip away the "protection" from Microsoft .lit.
Earlier the street prices for the N800 were well north of $350.
One reason for the sale is obvious—the need for Nokia to clear the shelves for the forthcoming N810, which will offer a built-in keyboard, just the ticket for searching. The 810 is off to a great start. You can already read about it in Wikipedia.
