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- Much thanks, Jason, your usual great blogpost... but I really do not see the point of these readers... Like you, I have tons of books on pdf and chm(and thanks for the heads-up reminder on the IBM Redbooks, that had slipped my mind...), but since I have to carry a laptop of some form with me anyway, what would I need a reader for?... the reader does not do anything that the laptop cannot do, and the laptop has functionality all over the reader... the only advantage the reader had was size/weight, and now the netbooks have eliminated that advantage... I am ready to buy a netbook, waiting for more models to come out with the -280 chip, and that will pretty much eliminate the reader in my case... at least one Netbook producer is getting ready to deliver netbook models with the tablet-style swivel screen... I use 'doPDF' for my convert-to-.pdf printer (free/no tags), and 'Foxit Reader' for my .pdf reader (free/very tiny/very fast)... now I just put my 1000+ .pdf, .chm, .etc books on a usb flash drive and I am good to go, and that works when I do not have my laptop, being at school/game/where-ever, usually around a computer just about everywhere... computers already have all the reader software, especially the reader software that the readers do not have... I believe you will see the bottom drop out of reader prices before long, and in the end they will be practically giving them away... netbooks already selling below the reader prices... netbooks may have killed the reader... thanks again, please keep up the great work, and have a good day/week/weekend!!...
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