Best PDA To Read e-Texts On?

GabrielStrange writes "I've been thinking for a while now that I'd like to own some sort of portable device on which I could read e-Texts. This device should be able to read both simple text files (i.e. Project Gutenberg e-Texts) and more complex formats, like Plucker, Acrobat or Microsoft Reader. It should have a fairly high-res display with a backlight that would be easy on the eyes... but doesn't particularly need to be a color display. I'd like it to work with at least one (if not both) of the machines on my desktop, which run Linux 2.6 and MacOS X Panther... And to use a USB port. And I'd like it to have a built in, rechargeable battery, because I already have enough devices to worry about batteries for. And, of course, I don't want to pay very much for it. Anyone got any recommendations for such a device? It's proving to be almost impossible to even obtain an actual list of devices that have these features."

someone had to say it

[Anonymous Coward]

i don't have a pda, you insensitive clod.

Re:it doesn't take much...

[Anonymous Coward]

Ever try taking a 17" monitor to bed

I choose not to anwer this question.

Re:iBook

[Anonymous Coward]

Next page and previous page buttons make scrolling pages much less of a chore than flipping paper sheets.

Yeah, it's pretty damned hard to flip those paper sheets. I get all exhausted after about ten pages of a regular book. Thank god for technology!

Re:it doesn't take much...

[dicepackage]

"Every try taking a 17" monitor to bed?" While I am sure you are joking I did this. When my computer room needed new carpet I had to move my computer into my room. I didn't have a desk so I set the computer on the floor and put the monitor on my bed. Thankfully I am not addicted to my computer to the point where I would sleep with the monitor in my bed.

Re:look down a few posts

[geeber]

Except, he said "I don't want to pay very much for it."

I think at $699 that pretty much rules out the Zaurus.