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OLPC XO: The Programmer’s Ebook Reader

The OLPC XO has turned out to be a perfect ebook reader for me for the following reasons:

5 hour battery life in black&white mode with xpdf and mzscheme or Firefox and SBCL open
While reading, try out code in Common Lisp, Scheme, Erlang, Ruby, Perl…
Take notes while reading
Beautiful screen
Light weight, tiny size
Low cost and durable

This was written by Grant. Posted on Monday, June 16, 2008, at 8:58 am. Filed under Article. Tagged XO. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Post a comment or leave a trackback.

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