It also lets me “star” documents in my dropbox folder on the iPad, which dropbox then saves right on the iPad, so if I’m in an area without wifi, I can still pull up the document. I will often have PDFs or slides that I want to read throughout the day, and so before I head out the door, I just drag to dropbox, knowing that I’ll be able to pick them up when I reach my destination. The dropbox client is really great, and I constantly use it for what appears to be a very similar task to yours. But it definitely will do what you want less the eink screen.
Well… I’d say an iPad 2, but you usually aren’t too receptive to products out of Cupertino.
I am somewhat confused as to how well the Chromebook would work with Dropbox (maybe you’d just browse the Dropbox Web site and download one file at a time no need to install an app) and Word docs. The color LCD screen won’t be sharp like eInk, but the higher resolution (1366×768) might make up for it. It also looks as though there isn’t support for Microsoft Office formats.Īnother idea would be to abandon the tablet idea and use a Acer AC700-1099 Chromebook, despite the fact that I don’t need the keyboard.
So I am worried that there wouldn’t be any way to install the Dropbox app. The Barnes and Noble site, however, doesn’t advertise the possibility of installing apps on the device. For $139 it has just 2 GB of memory, but that’s fine since I don’t need the documents to be persistent on the device. It has an eInk screen and runs Android (I think). One obvious idea seems to be the latest Barnes and Noble Nook. I.e., it wouldn’t be practical to use the original Kindle because I don’t want to email stuff to myself all the time. I don’t want to have to decide in advance which documents to view. I can also relax the requirement to view Microsoft Word documents (I never originate documents in Microsoft Office but end up receiving a fair number of files in this format). I’d like it to have a black and white eInk screen but could relax this to a less sharp LCD if there truly aren’t any eInk readers that can do the job. So I’d like to find a table that, given WiFi access, facilitates browsing files (Google Docs, Word, PDF) stored in Google Docs and in and then downloading a file for temporary viewing. Rather than be stuck at my desk in front of my monitor (a fairly nice 30″ LCD, but suffers from the usual lack of sharpness of any color screen) I would prefer to be able to lounge on the living room sofa or walk around or whatever. For my software engineering consulting work I have a lot of documents that I sometimes need to review.
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