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<body> <div id="header"> <span class="left"> <span class="back"><a href="lthread_list.php?webtag=DEFAULT"><span class="image mobile_back" title="Back"></span></a></span> <span class="image mobile_logo" title="Beehive Forum Logo"></span> </span> <ul> <li> <a class="reply_all" href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=31892.0&return_msg=31892.42"> <span class="image mobile_reply_all"></span><span class="text">Reply to All</span> </a> </li> <li> <a class="navigation" href="#"> <span class="image mobile_navigation"></span><span class="text">Show messages</span> </a> </li> <li> <a class="main" href="#"><span class="image mobile_menu" title="Menu"></span> </a> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="menu main"> <ul> <li><a href="lthread_list.php?webtag=DEFAULT">Messages</a></li> <li><a href="lpm.php?webtag=DEFAULT">Inbox</a></li> <li><a href="lsearch.php?webtag=DEFAULT">Search</a></li> <li><a href="llogon.php?webtag=DEFAULT">Login</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="menu navigation"><a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=31892.1">1–10</a>…<a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=31892.21">21–30</a><a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=31892.31">31–40</a><a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=31892.41">41–50</a></div> <div id="page_content"> <h3 class="thread_title"><a href="index.php?webtag=DEFAULT&amp;msg=31892.42">I Need To Live In the USA! Problem!</a> </h3> <div id="messages" data-navigation="31892_42_50_10"> <a name="a31892_42"></a><div class="message" id="message_31892_42"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: spinning_plates<span class="message_time"> 1 Mar 2007 18:55</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: ALL<span class="message_count">42 of 50</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=31892.42">31892.42</a></div> <div class="message_body"> This<br /> <br /> <img src="http://statecorp.net/images/ebookonpalm.jpg" /><br /> <br /> is what I use for my ebooks and I find it works very well! </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=31892.42&return_msg=31892.42" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="31892.42"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a31892_43"></a><div class="message" id="message_31892_43"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Manthorp<span class="message_time"> 1 Mar 2007 19:10</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: spinning_plates <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 1 Mar 2007 19:33"></span></span> <span class="message_count">43 of 50</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=31892.43">31892.43</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=31892.42#a31892_42" target="_self">31892.42</a></div> <div class="message_body"> You will be blind* by the age of twelve.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> *Had this been No Backspace Friday that would have read 'You will be bling...' and who knows, maybe you will, at that. </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=31892.43&return_msg=31892.42" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="31892.43"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a31892_44"></a><div class="message" id="message_31892_44"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: spinning_plates<span class="message_time"> 1 Mar 2007 19:37</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Manthorp <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 1 Mar 2007 19:39"></span></span> <span class="message_count">44 of 50</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=31892.44">31892.44</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=31892.42#a31892_43" target="_self">31892.43</a></div> <div class="message_body"> <p>Actually my eyesight is pretty ace. I find the Palm easier to read than a book - the lighting is never a problem - can read in bed without a light on or in the metro with everyone crowded round me (unlike the assholes who unfold a paper in your face). I can carry loads of book, just the same as a true ebook reader, but I can also do loads of other stuff with it and best of all it's not made by Sony, so it doesn't use proprietary crap.</p> <p> </p> <p>I probably mentioned before, but I got a Sony "MP3" player for my 18th birthday (this would be 5½ years ago) that wouldn't actually play MP3s, only ATRAC3S. I hardly used the thing and sold it on eBay. Damn Sony.</p> </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=31892.44&return_msg=31892.42" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="31892.44"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a31892_45"></a><div class="message" id="message_31892_45"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Dr Nick (FOZZA)<span class="message_time"> 1 Mar 2007 22:37</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: spinning_plates <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 2 Mar 2007 20:44"></span></span> <span class="message_count">45 of 50</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=31892.45">31892.45</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=31892.42#a31892_44" target="_self">31892.44</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Normally I would agree with the no sony shout.<br /> <br /> But I have to say that the problems I had with pda reading were<br /> <br /> <ul> <li>Battery (forget to charge it overnight and you're buggered half way through the next day)</li> <li>Glare, sometimes in daylight really difficult to read.</li> <li>Small screen (it is a small screen!)</li> <li>Eye strain, (less so on my older trusty IIIxe my first pda)</li> <li>even with cleartype of clearview of what ever still hurt my eyes after a long session resulting in headaches.</li> </ul><br /> <br /> Doing otherthing? Well my windows mobile 5 smartphone does everything my old pda did so I have that with me anyway.<br /> <br /> I love my eletronic paper and really do thing it is a step (maybe not the "leap" I was hoping for) forward in mobile reading.<div class="edit_text">EDITED: 1 Mar 2007 22:37 by FOZZA</div> </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=31892.45&return_msg=31892.42" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="31892.45"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a31892_46"></a><div class="message" id="message_31892_46"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: spinning_plates<span class="message_time"> 2 Mar 2007 20:47</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Dr Nick (FOZZA) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 5 Mar 2007 23:35"></span></span> <span class="message_count">46 of 50</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=31892.46">31892.46</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=31892.42#a31892_45" target="_self">31892.45</a></div> <div class="message_body"> <p>Ok, points taken, however battery is not a problem - I always carry the charger in my backpack just in case, glare has not been a problem for me so far and most of the time I'm still inside anyway, small-screen is not a problem and same would be said of eye-strain - I find it more comfortable to read the Palm than a book.</p> <p> </p> <p>Plus no restrictions on what I can read on it.</p> <p> </p> <p>Glad you like your electronic paper though.</p><div class="edit_text">EDITED: 2 Mar 2007 20:47 by SPINNING_PLATES</div> </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=31892.46&return_msg=31892.42" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="31892.46"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a31892_47"></a><div class="message" id="message_31892_47"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: AND HIS PROPHET IS (MOHAMED42)<span class="message_time"> 2 Mar 2007 21:40</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: spinning_plates <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 2 Mar 2007 22:21"></span></span> <span class="message_count">47 of 50</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=31892.47">31892.47</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=31892.42#a31892_42" target="_self">31892.42</a></div> <div class="message_body"> What godawful thing are you reading? That's the worst prose I've come across outside of a gothy-type poetry reading. </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=31892.47&return_msg=31892.42" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="31892.47"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a31892_48"></a><div class="message" id="message_31892_48"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: spinning_plates<span class="message_time"> 2 Mar 2007 22:23</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: AND HIS PROPHET IS (MOHAMED42) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 2 Mar 2007 22:25"></span></span> <span class="message_count">48 of 50</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=31892.48">31892.48</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=31892.42#a31892_47" target="_self">31892.47</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Red Mars. I think that part isn't done justice out of context. I'm enjoying it a lot so far - all the more so on Palm (I think I mentioned I tried to start reading it in hard-back but it was impractical for carrying around all the time). </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=31892.48&return_msg=31892.42" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="31892.48"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a31892_49"></a><div class="message" id="message_31892_49"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: sinkywinky<span class="message_time"> 2 Mar 2007 23:07</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: spinning_plates <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 3 Mar 2007 15:15"></span></span> <span class="message_count">49 of 50</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=31892.49">31892.49</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=31892.42#a31892_48" target="_self">31892.48</a></div> <div class="message_body"> I dont even remember that bit. The rest of it isn't rubbish.</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=31892.49&return_msg=31892.42" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="31892.49"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a31892_50"></a><div class="message" id="message_31892_50"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: spinning_plates<span class="message_time"> 3 Mar 2007 15:15</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: sinkywinky <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 3 Mar 2007 15:26"></span></span> <span class="message_count">50 of 50</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=31892.50">31892.50</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=31892.42#a31892_49" target="_self">31892.49</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Precisely. This would be the bit where they were coming towards Mars on the Ares just as they were about to orbit, hence why it's rather flowery prose. </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=31892.50&return_msg=31892.42" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="31892.50"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div></div> </div> </body>