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I do enjoy reading paper books and have many on the shelves that I hope to finish one of these days, but I find it's just much easier to find time to read on my PDA. It is always with me so any down time during the day can be spent reading. The biggest advantage for me though is that I don't need any external light source; I love to read in bed at night, but a bedside lamp bothers my wife who is not a nighttime reader.
I use MS Reader and generally don't have a lot of complaints. Once in a while it locks all my books, but a soft reset solves that. And on rare occasions I have to go through the activation process again for no apparent reason. That frustrates the heck out of me at the time, but for the most part I find MS Reader to be a good format. I've been using it since my Jornada days so maybe it's just the familiarity I like. It did provide the means to finish Bill Clintons HUGE autobiography -- something I was unable to do with my paper copy.
One other benefit of reading on my PDA is the ability to quickly convert Word documents to MS Reader format. I read a lot of lengthy journal articles and the automatic bookmarking makes it very convenient to finish an article over a few days intermittent reading.
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