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I absolutely must have some sort of integrated lighting (backlighting or frontlighting) | 27 | 43.55% | |
The clarity of eInk screens is more important to me than integrated lighting | 23 | 37.10% | |
Either way is fine with me, neither is a deal-breaker | 12 | 19.35% | |
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10-02-2007, 06:26 PM | #61 |
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You might be right. But I think for the general fiction market any features that push the price over US$100 will also end up being irrelevant. I paid more than that for my iLiad only because I could also read PDF, which I need for grad school journal readings. I was pretty well satisfied with my eBookwise 1150 for fiction -- the only serious limitation that would have caused me to upgrade from a fiction point of view was the 128Mb memory limit, and even that was a limitation I could put up with because of the library software that allowed me to easily switch the books around.
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well be reading books in gif or png format. There are better containers than pdf for these kinds of tasks such as comic book formats. PDF can be a choice for books if it contains text that is reflowable and if the reader supports reflow. Unfortunately most readers other than the ones from Adobe do not support reflow and even the Adobe ones require that the text be tagged for reflow. (There are ways to tag a file after the fact but this is beyond the scope here.) While your statement about a general format that is page specific being a bad thing is true it is also true that most readers use a page specific format that is specific for their reader. This is one of the real problems that must be addressed before a universal format like epub can be used natively as a book format. Real books are pages. (This probably deserves its own discussion somewhere). Dale |
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On my Dell Axim, eReader Pro has no problem 'remembering' which 'page' it is on and jumping to new 'pages' on the fly. As I re-size the text, the 'pages' re-flow and if I choose to jump to a new 'page' eReader recalculates where that is in the file. Derek |
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MobiPocket has a terrible time with pagination. You never know how many pages there are in the book nor how close you are to the next chapter. If you jump to a chapter ahead and backup you will find the pagination is not the same as you would have if you read the same page moving forward instead of jumping. This is certainly not like a real book. (The problem in MobiPocket is one of user control. The user can redo the font at any time which totally messes up the pagination) Digital Editions does paginate but does it on the fly the first time the book (and every time the book) is opened. This makes it horrendously slow when opening any long book. How does the Sony reader deal with pagination issues if the format doesn't impose them? Dale |
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10-03-2007, 05:10 PM | #68 |
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Regarding pagination, I actually need to maintain it for some of my purposes. When I'm quoting a journal article, I need to quote the page as it appeared in the original journal.
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FBreader on my 770 has an interesting solution for pagination based on a fixed number of bites per page, so with my settings the same page appears about 3 times.
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10-04-2007, 01:56 PM | #74 |
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Yes-- I read journal articles as PDFs on my iLiad. That's why I got an iLiad instead of sticking with my trusty eBw 1150 (right before the PDF->1150 tool came out!)
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