I am a huge fan of eBooks. I own a Dell Axim X5 PocketPC, and my favorite use for it is for reading eBooks. For those that aren’t familiar with them, eBooks are digital versions of a normal books. You can buy eBooks from lots of online retailers, such as eBooks.com or Amazon. Not only are novels digitized, but you can find magazines, ezines, and reference books in digital format. There are still many books that are not available digitally, but the number is growing.

Before I tried it, I was a bit skeptical about reading an eBook on a PocketPC. I had looked at a couple eBooks on CRT monitors, and I couldn’t see myself looking at a monitor screen to read a book. It just didn’t seem right. I guess it felt like overkill to have a computer and monitor running, using up all that power, when you could just open a paperback, not use any power, and not feel like you are ruining your eyes by being so close to a “tv screen”.