I can haz XO!

[mdlbear]

My OLPC XO finally arrived, sometime during the week! Did they send me email with a tracking number? No. Did they actually have my name on the damned box? No to that, too. But it found me anyway.

Squee! (Or as close as this old geek gets, anyway.)

The screen is fantastic. It's exactly 1/4 of a letter-sized page, and a full page of 12-point type is easily readable at arm's length. Even more so with the backlight off and good lighting for monochrome (reflective) mode. It's about twice the weight I'd like a book reader to be, and a little bigger -- the Asus Eee that I'm borrowing from work and lending to the flower_cat is more the size I'd like. But its screen sucks by comparison.

There are places where a paper songbook would be more convenient, and it's certainly more readable. But if I had to take one or the other...