I bought a used Alphasmart Dana from a mom writer yesterday and it will be here before NaNo! It comes with good vibes too - since she used it and won her first NaNo with it :-)
I've been waiting for a good deal at the precise time I had enough in my wallet and it's worked out this week. I'd held off buying one for months. Then I happened to play with a NaNo my son's school placed him with last week and I knew I definitely wanted one. On Saturday, the ad went out, and now it's mine!
Alphasmart's are so lightweight, have great battery power (like 700 hours from 3 AA batteries, or use the AC adapter), auto save, room for lots of files.... It's going to be perfect for November. And the Dana comes with the ability to do more than word processing. It connects to Wi-Fi and you can use lots of programs.
After November, just every day use will be wonderful. It's literally a pain to drag the laptop everywhere. The Alphasmart's make it easy for five minutes in the car, etc.. They power up instantly and the auto save feature means no extra time or worry about saving. Just power off or it turns itself off. Can't wait!
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