The University of Virginia has oodles of ebooks, too.

<b>http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/ebooklist.html</b>

Correction to my previous message: It's Rough Guides, not Time Out, that publishes the guidebooks with CD ROMs including files for your PDA. The series is called &quot;Directions&quot;, as London Directions, Paris Directions, etc.

Also, to Maitaitom: You can save as text on a Mac as well as a PC. Use &quot;text only&quot; as the option. Then get the DropBook application (which comes for Mac as well as PC) to make your Palm-readable file. Those files have to have the extension .pdb (not .txt). DropBook will convert the text files and add the proper extension.

My spouse cannot live with out his PDA and his Blackberry. They are small and portable. They allow for downloading maps, languages translators, etc. The Blackberry because he loves to email folks around the world when he is doing something neat.His employer demands that he be available at all times even if it is only by email.My only suggestion is to make sure that your PDA is password protected in case of theft or loss. I would also advise against keeping any kind of credit card or banking information on it, be safe than sorry.

Exactly what is a Palm Pilot?

Jeez.

I thought you'd just been <u>out of town</u>, not <i>off-planet</i>.

palmone.com

Actually and officially, there's no longer any such thing as a Palm Pilot. The Pilot pen people said that Palm was infringing their copyright with the use of &quot;Pilot&quot; so Palm had to drop Pilot as part of their name. &quot;Palm Pilot&quot; is still common in popular usage, however.

The joke's on the pen manufacturer. Palm Pilot has already become a generic like Kleenex or Hoover.

They should be flattered. And get into the PDA business;)

barndoggie--he should try to get a different employer.