Sony Clie PEG-S360 (Score 1)

I have been using my Clie to read fiction e-books for the last ~3 years. I did have many weeks when I was able to read a book per day and I found that my lo-res 160x160 BW screen was a perfect fit.

Unlike the higher resolution models that Sony produces now, the lo-res screen presents a rather blocky, but easily readable text. What I found when I tried to upgrade to newer models of Clie, was that the 320x320 screen made the lines of the letters much to fine for me to read continuously for hours. When the letters where in the bold typeface they could be seen clearly, comparably to 160x160 screen with normal typeface, but I was unwilling to have all my text in bold. I have decided to keep S360 and fear the day that it will die on me. While it is no longer produced, I have seen some sold on ebay.

Also, as in other Sony handhelds, the jog wheel makes a great addition to the e-book reading experience, and the additional bonus of 16MB of memory can easily fit 20 full length novels for a week at the lake.

Some PEG-S360 specs:

• 160x160 monochrome screen
• 16MB expandable to ? (tried 128MB OK) MemoryStick
• 4MB upgradable flash
• PalmReader
• e-books processed from straight text to PalmReader Markup Language to the PalmReader compressed format