Ahh, but is it writ in large, friendly yellow letters?

@SavannahJack: Unfortunately, no. Black and white. So it's not QUITE spot on. Then again, you could also just get a decent Smartphone, say, an HTC, and put a Linux build on that. Then you have a color screen and whatnot. It's going to take a lot of tweaking and most likely some programming, but hey, for large, friendly yellow letters... it's so worth it.

I know a lot of fans didn't like the recent movie adaptation, but I really loved the simple animations they had for the Guide segments. If we could get a hand held ebook of Wikipedia with those in them, I'd totally buy it.

Uh, I can't find a Psion 5mx PDA for a reasonable price anywhere or else I would try this.

I used to be a fan of h2g2.com, but they reworked it into a run-of-the-mill social site. As soon as you could post comments on articles without having to write your own article the quality of the writing (and the caliber of lunacy) went downhill. It's still running, and I browse the archives occasionally, but it's not as much fun as it was when it launched.

It seems to me the Hitchhikers Guide should be an iPhone widget by now.

I picked up a copy of the Guide at the AT&T store in the mall. The doofus who sold it to me kept calling it a "eye-phone".
...and yes, while entertaining and vastly interesting, the information I find is sometime wildly inaccurate.

@DarkPlaces:
Aiiigg! Beat me to the iPhonage. This is what happens when I try to come up with witty stuff when I'm burried neck deep in paperwork...yaarg.
Back into the hole with me.

So it's portable wikipedia?

As obvious as it is to change the wikipedia entry on Earth to "mostly harmless", it is a similar knee-jerk reaction to say "But I have an iPhone."

(Which is exactly what I came here to post.) :p

Hahah. My Kindle already does this.

@braak: More like Hahah, you bought a Kindle.

@skallagrimsson: I am extremely satisfied with the purchase.

@braak: That's all that matters. If I didn't have a crippling paper addiction, I'd probably consider one myself.

I did exactly that with my Nokia N800. Although I don't have the entire Wikipedia on there, just the "education" snapshot they did a while back. Still, pretty neat.

This may be nitpickery, but those letters (aside from being not yellow) do not look all that friendly. If it were a sans-serif font, however...

The words "Don't Panic" should be on the cover. So when you close this Psion, you should see the words written there. On the screen it doesn't matter, if I'm being pedantic, which I am.

I put 'Don't Panic" in large, friendly letters on the top of my EEE PC.

@Mary-Sue: pixplskthxbai

@seldon452: Luckily, I do indeed have one and may well try it.

Sweet machines, those Psions.