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Hi
1) Yes. In your example I do not think so, but as you say, I can not read Sanskrit. Still if you cut most of the white margins of the original PDF (look into the forum for tools, free and paid that can do that), then yes;
2) it depends the Cybook has several zoom levels, so per example if you choose zoom to the width of the page, it puts a signal in the bottom of the page showing you have to pan down to see the rest of it). The Sony when zooming passes directly to landscape.
3) turning a page, in the Cybook it can be 2, 3 or more times (depending of the zoom chosen), in the 505, it just “cuts” the page in half and they “became” 2 new pages. It’s convenient. The choosing for a larger reader is a personal choice of course;
4) normally what you would have is a A4/letter page PDF represented in a less then A5 size screen.
How is this represented, the page shrinks, and normally the letters are so small that one can not read it.
If someone gets rid of the white margins the original page has, the page becomes less in size then A4/letter, so representing it in the same size screen, shows the letters bigger, and sometimes, in landscape it’s readable.
Now, reflowing: the reader in the Sony (505 and 700) has the option of reflowing
the text in PDF’s. It does this by trying to “see” marks of separation between words and if one of those is near the end of a line, it cuts the line there instead on where it was doing it originally. It’s supposed to do this automatically for each zoom option (the Sony as 3 text sizes, small, medium and large, and it zooms when one chooses medium or large).
How is this in reality: the reader in the Sony behaves very strangely sometimes, it cuts the end of the lines in the meddle of a word (it was not supposed to do that), and other strange situations. It does not deal well with tables, formulas and or graphics. If these are text and numbers, it reflows them and one looses them purely, or even some disappear, if they are images, they are shown as images and normally they show acceptable.
Best,
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