So as it turns out Fr. Christmas (by way of the wife) chose to bring me a Kindle. The new third-gen Kindle, with Wi-Fi and 3G. Good get =)
As it turns out, this may very nearly be the perfect solution. The Kindle brings a lot of things to the table – magazine subscriptions (after literally twenty years, my New Yorker subscription is moving from paper to bits), a larger screen and ridonkulous battery life, and a size, weight and form factor that might just fit in the poacher pocket without having to carry a bag the way an iPad or laptop would require. Still doesn’t fix the text-entry problem for blogging, but on the bright side, Wikipedia and RSS reading just got a lot simpler -basically this thing is a universal reader of text (complete with selections from the Stanford Philosophy wiki in PDF) and that’s not a bad thing to have around.
Hmmmmmm…