iPod TouchShould e-reading folks buy an iPhone ($399 and up) or the new iPod Touch portable media player ($299+), seen in the photo?

That’s among the topics of an eBook Community List thread, including some advice from Bill Janssen to install “a version of Safari on that” which “includes Google Gears.” Then “add a Javascript ebook reader that uses the Gears API.”

As Bill sees it, the results will be “a very nice little connected/disconnected reading machine.”

Based on what I know, I myself would prefer the flexibility of, say, FBReader—unfortunately, not runnable on the iPhone or the new iPod Touch portable media player.

Do you want to change the space between lines? Work with a variety of formats? Then dedicated e-book reading software might be the way to go, if you have the right hardware and operating system. But each to his or her own.

The ideal solution would be a browser with sophisticated e-book-reading capabilities built in. I’d welcome more information from Bill on the features in Javascript e-book readers, a topic of great interest to him. The iPhone and iPod Touch certainly make such readers more timely.

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