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Subject: Re: [LML] Reader Plates for Mother's Day Gift
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John -

You may want to wait a little bit. Amazon just brought out the Kindle DX  
today. It is a larger screen than their earlier model and the Kindle 2  
that  was launched earlier this year. The DX will also read .pdf files.  
Maybe John Lemberger could adapt his system to this box. I looked at the  
Sony and the screen is a bit small if you have the reader too far away  
(full plate in view). If you split it on the Sony to see it betetr, you  
have to scroll/tap to see the other part of the plate - if I remember it  
correctly. The price of the DX is higher than the Sony - $489. That may be  
a deal breaker to the average person, but for us airplane drivers, it is  
just another toy. :-))

John Schroeder
LNCE - 240 hours


On Wed, 06 May 2009 13:21:10 -0400, John Hafen <j.hafen@comcast.net> wrote:

> Doug.
>
> I asked my wife if she wanted a Sony Reader PRS-505 and łReader Plates˛  
> for
> Motheršs  Day.  She told me łfine,˛ and to do whatever the heck I wanted.
> So Išm off to the store to pick up her Motheršs day present.  I know she  
> is
> excited about this gift.   I appreciate your help in managing yet another
> potentially sensitive state mandated holiday.  Looks like Išm good for  
> this
> one.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> John Hafen
> IVP 413AJ  120 hours
>
>
> On 5/5/09 6:04 AM, "Douglas Brunner" <douglasbrunner@earthlink.net>  
> wrote:
>
>> I have been searching for a while for a good solution for approach  
>> plates.  I
>> think I have found it.
>>
>> My wife and I travel cross country quite a bit.  We used to purchase  
>> all the
>> paper plates for all the states we were going to fly over. This gave us  
>> a big
>> stack of paper at a not insignificant cost.  It was not convenient to  
>> store
>> the plates in the back of a Legacy and to reach around to find the  
>> proper book
>> at the proper time.  And sometimes there was a mad dash to rush order  
>> the
>> proper plates just days before our trip.
>>
>> I tried Pocket Plates on an iPaq and although the software was good, I  
>> didn't
>> like the screen size.  I was contemplating getting a tablet PC, but  
>> with a
>> solid state drive and a daylight readable screen these are not cheap.   
>> They
>> are also fairly bulky.
>>
>> I came across ReaderPlates (http://www.readerplates.com/) which seemed  
>> like a
>> good idea and got a demo from the owner, John Lemberger at Sun n Fun.   
>> I ended
>> up purchasing the Sony Reader (PRS-505) for $270 and the software for  
>> $9.99
>> per month.
>>
>> John gave me considerable help setting up my system (needed because of a
>> strangely formatted 8 GB SD card I had put in it) and it is now running  
>> well.
>> The reader is small, light and daylight viewable.  I am going to try to  
>> put my
>> checklists on it and as a bonus, I can always use it as a book reader.
>>
>> D. Brunner
>>
>