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Squint and Believe
by SystemLoc on Thursday November 01, @07:14AM

I'm a first year medical student, and I've been browsing the PDA market, as they are recommended for third year. There are loads of very nice resources available that look to be very useful: eBooks, online, updated databases, prescribing information, test information, etc.. There are two problems keeping me from buying on this moment, though. First, the damn screens are too small! For light reading, email, novella, and the like, the screen is fine, but to view a textbook, you need a screen nearly the size of a page in order to view text, plus pictures or diagrams. I recently saw the Sony eBook reader at Borders. It's about the size I'm looking for in a PDA. Second, most of those online databases and resources are completely free when using a PC web terminal, however they charge for the PDA version. Do the vendors think we're stupid? I'm not paying for something that is free just to get it in a different format.

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