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Simple cheap text hand held display (PDA)?

Published in September 27th, 2009

I have a text catalog of around 200 pages which changes frequently. Printing costs are high and I thought it would be cool to have an electronic catalog instead. It doesn’t have to be very fancy, just monochrome text, and ability to sort by a field and some search capability. A PDA (palm) or eBook Reader would do but they are too expensive, and have too much capability. Also, my customers would steal them… Finally the device should be somewhat rugged since to be used in a bar/restaurant environment. Any ideas?
Online solution is not feasible, catalog is for a karaoke song book – It has to be available to the bar patrons onsite.

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glenbarrington said, in September 27th, 2009 at 10:54 am

Why don’t you just put your catalog online?

It would seem MUCH less expensive than trying to deal with lost, broken devices. It isn’t just the cost of the devices, it’s warehousing, shipping, dealing with people who ‘just can’t figure it out’, how do you load a changed catalog to a device your coustomer already has, etc.

That way, you could actually TAKE the order ONLINE, Plus, changes would be accomplished by merely changing a database entry.

Alternately Create it to as PDF file, then burn it to a CD.

Either way, you let the customer deal with his own hardware problems.