I have War and Peace in txt format- (1296 pages in the physical hard-cover version I have- about the longest book I hope I ever read); the Archos opened it and I could scroll down while it was loading as fast I could read- I never hit the bottom of the file. It loaded the whole thing in 2 minutes ...

PDF password remover rocks! It removed the password on all of my secured PDFs! Can anyone recommend a free software that can convert PDFs into text?

Once the pdf is unlocked, can't you just open it, press ctrl+A (select all), Ctrl +C (copy), open notepad or wordpad, press Ctrl+V (paste) and save ...

I'm quite happy with mine. It's a little heavy and the "is that an Archos in your pocket or you just happy to see me?" look isn't ideal.

The widgets aren't as useful as advertised, and they aren't exactly rushing Archos optimized ones to the store there. Flash games look great, but a lot are ...

Just a few I use that aren't bad:

*Artist's Sketchbook-- it's OK, but doesn't really move fast enough to be all that useful (works offline)

*Checkers and chess I think someone already mentioned (works offline)

*EduMap- veeery slow

*Facebook Widget - online only but a nice fast portal to your ...