Read your time away
Everybody carries a paperback novel in case their only source of in-flight entertainment is The Days of our Lives re-runs. If you're a PDA user, you can leave your paperbacks at home and read something on your handheld instead.
Both Palm and Pocket PC users can use the excellent AvantGo to access a wealth of information ranging from financial news to sports analysis. Before you leave for your holiday, just synchronise your PDA to get the latest updates to read at your leisure. Better yet, look for an infrared Internet access kiosk at the airport (as mention in Part One of this article) to retrieve the latest stories.
For Palm users with voracious reading appetites, Memoware has tons of free e-texts and e-books for you to download. From historical documents to science fiction novels, there's something for everyone. Just make sure that you've a document reader, like CSpotRun, iSilo, or TomeRaider, that can read those files.
If you're looking for award-winning materials by renowned authors, head down to Fictionwise for e-books that both Palm and Pocket PC users can read. Of course, these e-books come with a price.
For Pocket PC users, the Microsoft Reader that comes installed with your handheld is certainly a godsend. It not only lets you read e-books downloaded from the Net, it lets you listen to audiobooks that you can download from websites like Mediabay.com.
If you want a no-frills reader, you can simply use your Pocket Word to read the text of classic Charles Dickens novels downloaded from the Project Gutenburg website.
