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I’ve been 100% eBook for some time now. For work I carry a SmartPhone or PocketPc Phone either in my pants pocket or in a holster, but my handy dandy “can’t leave home without it” HP iPaq Pocket PC is always in my shirt pocket. I use this iPaq with its large screen almost exclusively for reading. It hosts my QuickVerse Bible – I haven’t used a paper bible for a couple years now, and it hosts my eReader app with all my ebooks. I am extremely happy with the iPaq sans phone capabilities for a number of reasons:
1. The form factor doesn’t lend itself much to a phone device – too large; but the screen size is great for reading.
2. When my wife is trying to fall asleep beside me and doesn’t want to be bothered by a bedside light in the eyes I can read to my heart’s content without bothering her.
3. I can put a book down and go back to it a week later and pickup exactly where I left off, automatically bookmarked by my eReader app.
4. Even in the old days I didn’t always carry a paper bible or a paper book around with me, but I do always have my iPaq so my Bible and all my favorite books, plus eWallet, and my music is only a shirt pocket away.
5. When I’m on an airplane I can actually read an ebook or my bible and listen to my music at the same time and from the same device, and by the way the iPaq has excellent battery life. I've done this a number of time, for me it's the only way to fly.
6. I recently picked up a paper book that I’ve had for a couple years but never read. I was considering reading it since it isn’t available in eBook format, but the mustiness and dust mites immediately caused me to put it down. I never have this problem with my ebook.
I couldn’t be any happier with eReader eBooks. Microsoft’s version never came close, and pdf and html just doesn’t come close in richness or simple features. My one wish is that the licensing wasn’t so closely tied to my credit/debit card. Because I’ve switched cards several times over the years I now have a library of books with many different unlock codes and have to keep a matrix just to remember what old expired card unlock which book.