on Nov 14 04 20:05, Robert Bull wrote to Kay Shapero:

 RB> being the best value over here ATM.  The T3's big feature is its 
 RB> larger 
 RB> screen; how are you finding it as a device from which to read text?

Quite useful, and the fact that you can turn the view sideways, so that the
longer screen gives you a wider page is nice.  Though to be honest I mostly
use *that* feature when using Excel files (yes, it does spreadsheets too). 


 RB> Does Project Gutenberg have much recent material?  I thought it would 
 RB> have things that were out of copyright.

Project Gutenberg does indeed only carry writings that are out of
copyright.  Which still leaves a lot of interesting reading material.  The
recent material I have is mostly books downloaded from Baen books free
library, or bought from their "webscriptions" service, though
I've also got things like Cory Doctorow's _Down and Out in the Magic
Kingdom_ which he made available on his website awhile back.  There's a lot
of interesting free or at least cheap reading material available over the
net.
      
CBIP - SF: THE COBRA TRILOGY by Timothy Zahn - One of the more thoughtful
treatments of the cyborg soldier idea, complete with a healthy regard for
the Law of Unintended Consequences.  The first book takes one of the
original recruits for the Cobra project and follows him through his career.
 The soldier part is actually fairly short; the real meat of the book comes
in the "ok, we've created all these supersoldiers, the war is over,
and we can't reverse the process that created them.  Now what?" part. 
The book ends with their solution.  Book two takes place a few decades
later, and presents some of the characters from the first book, their
descendants, and various other folks who are handed the problem of avoiding
what appears to be an inevitable war.  I've just started book three, where
the problem appears to be political.  I've no doubt they'll solve THIS one
too, and it's fun watching them.  Mind you there's plenty of action and
adventure through it all.
 
This is one of the ebooks I've bought from Baen.

CBIP - otherwise:  WAR AND PEACE by Leo Tolstoy
As the title says.  And, alas, I'm beginning to find that the book bids
fair to lose my interest a bit over a third of the way through.  Of course
in a book that takes up 3.3M space on my handheld (The entire Cobra Trilogy
takes up 1.9M, and most books take up a meg or less.) this is rather a long
distance.  We are introduced to a flock of characters at the beginning and
follow them all through some pretty eventful years, but somehow the
philosophising is familiar and I'm not a big fan of battle descriptions, so
I'm reading it a chapter or so at a time and then looking at other stuff. 
At least this beats the last time I tried to read it, when the book started
to fall apart before I got THIS far.

Downloaded from Project Gutenberg

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