PDA's Bushcraft training tools

[spamel]

Did anybody find any decent bushcraft ebooks in the end?

 

[Wayne]

also what PDA would you recommend for the great outdoors?

 

[Biddlesby]

Not particularly for the great outdoors, but my PalmOne Zire72 does very nicely - cheap and with some good power. You can load an infinite number of programs on it - mine is music player, internet (through phone), organiser (of course), tv remote....etc etc.

And non of that microsoft crap either .

 

[Bardster]

You can get the "Fast Wild Food Cookbook" here http://www.countrylovers.co.uk/wildfoodjj/index.htm#morerecipes
its a free PDF download and as someone mentioned before you can get a PDF reader for pocketPC

its a great little booklet.

 

[Biddlesby]

Downloaded it. It looks good - looks of little recipies.

 

[sandbender]

Hope this isn't too off your thread but can I put ebooks on my ipod and read them in the field?

I will look into it but just wondered if any of you knew.

Bill

You can, but only ebooks converted to plain text...

"iPod 2.0 software brings exciting new features to your iPod, including a Note Reader that displays text files that are stored in the Notes folder on the iPod.
The Note Reader also displays the folder hierarchy in the Notes folder, allowing you to organize your notes."

"The size of any single note is limited to 4kb, any text beyond 4kb is truncated.
The Note Reader supports up to a thousand notes"

The iPod is probably not as useful as a palm for use as a digital device out in the wild.

Another option would be for folks to check out ebay for the older Macintosh Newton 2000 - 2100 organiser (£80-120), for a unit which was discontinued nearly ten years ago these machines have an incredible amount of support on the web and theres always new software in development for them. Add to that the huge screen which can switch to landscape view and you will have a much better ebook reading experience.

However it's greatest asset for those heading in up country is up to a month of battery life from four AA cells!