Wikipedia in your pocket?

This strikes me as not such a great idea:

The $99 WikiReader. All of Wikipedia in your pocket with no Internet connection required. Works in bright sunlight. 3-button interface. You can update the information in the WikiReader either by mail (they ship a microSD card) or by downloading a 4+ GB file. [Slashdot]

Do you really need yet another portable electronic device? First off, this thing is probably not going to sit that comfortably “in your pocket.” Take an iPhone, make it as wide as it is long, and then stack two of those on top of each other. Then shove it in your pocket next to any other junk in there. Yeah, probably not.

But then ok, assume you’re not supposed to carry this around on a regular basis (which is already sort of fail, random access to knowledge from anywhere is the interesting use case). Where do you keep it? At home? Next to your computer? Which is hooked up to the actual Wikipedia, which has “automatic” updates and pictures and such?

For $150 or so, you can get a refurbished iPod Touch, and download this offline wikipedia app, and also pick up any other app in the app store. Maybe at half the price, this would be an interesting proposition. As it is, there are just too many “neat gadgets I can hold in my hand” to make this one useful.