Survey posted 2005-06-07 05:54 by Jon.

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I read a great many books on my TI-89 while I was in algebra II, and Calculus... I also used it to read The Great Gatsby and Macbeth for 11th and 12th grade... thankfully both teachers thought it was neat that I could do that, although they did keep an eye on my fingers to make sure there wasn't any rapid button mashing going on...

forgot the second half of my post...

After HS I loaded up VIM on my low-powered laptop and read most of David Eddings books on it in bed... nice large screen(compared to an 89...), good contrast...

I left my 89 at home when i joined the Navy, and am now in Sasebo, Japan without it, however I still read ebooks on my trusty Zaurus SL-C3000 (any hope of a TI emulator supporting the ARM architecture?)

I also read one book in the Sword of Truth series on a newer laptop before getting the Zaurus...(don't remember which one, got the zaurus while still reading the series...)

However, even with that item, I still missed my 89... (actually asked my parents to send it to me about 8 months ago... they stil haven't shipped it) so I went ahead and ordered a ti89ti ...

Ebook is awesome. I am planning to write up the AP Chemistry free response problems and multiple choices from 1984 to 2005!

I have a Z80...:-(

...that doesn't mean anything.

uh...there arent really any good ebook readers for 83+ series..not sure about tohers but I doubt it at least for anything lower

Meh, NoteFlio is enough for anyone.

I can't sit down and read a whole book.. and if I split it up into different reading "sessions", I forget what I have read the last time, so I just stopped reading anything over about 20 pages =D

I read the excellent War of The Worlds and another H.G. Wells book on the calculator.

Just wondering, for those of you who do read e-books on your calculator, what is the preferred format?: through a BASIC program, Notefolio, or something else like Nifty.

btw, I was referring to the 83+ family

Due to screen resolution and memory, there aren't any real ebook readers for z80-calcs. Of course there is notefolio and stuff like that, but they actually can't handle large texts.

I think the 86 could, but no one seems to have written a reader for it yet.

I always stored text in program variables when I wanted to be able to read it easily on my TI-86. I never read any eBooks on my TI-86, but I did type a few English papers. Using a 4x4 font (which is legible, at least to me) one could get 32x16 resolution, which is reasonable for an eBook on a calculator - the TI-92+ gets 40x12 in its text editor. At those resolutions, the TI-86 would fit more text on the screen (512 vs. 480 characters). Memory, on the other hand, would limit book size, but there are good text compression algorithms that can be decompressed quickly.

A 4 by 4 font would ruin your eyes.

Also, how did you type an English paper on the 86? The TI keyboard doesn't work on the 86, and I just can't believe that you would waste time typing a whole paper with calc keys :P

Typing on a calc's keypad really isn't as slow as it seems once you get used to it.

I have been using 4x4 fonts for quite a while in my TI-86 memory viewer, & it never caused any trouble. For one thing, the pixels are larger than normal computer screens. At any rate, I once printed the TI-81 ROM in 4 point Courier New (if I remember correctly). I can read it just fine, & it does not hurt my eyes. I can also see the individual pixel columns (but not rows) from about 2' from my LCD panel on my PC. I cannot see good far away, but my computers are not far away.

Well, you can break up the book into sections that each become one file, and I find the "Review" screen of Notefolio to be easily readable enough and contain enough text on one screen.

For the 83/84+SE, eBooks could be packaged as FlashAPPs using some kind of command line program. Then, the 83/84+SE could possibly handle somewhat large texts.

When you think about it, you don't really need high screen resolution, just high width, so more letters can be displayed on one line. In that case, it would work better on the 85 and 86 (right?) than the 83 family.

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Right.

I have read quite a few books on my 83+ using notefolio. I find it adequate most of the time. I still read a hard copy most of the time. But i use the calc for fanfic and older books i DL off the net.