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NileSpice · 07-11-2010, 10:45 PM

I just bought a Nook yesterday and so far am very frustrated with the PDFs and the Nook in general. I bought mine mostly to read PDFs and am seriously considering returning it. Some PDFS don't open at all - don't know why. If the pages in the pdf were scanned - the 8 x 11 page is displayed in whole - which makes it impossible to read since there is no zoom so the print is ver tiny. The format of non-scanned PDFS is OK - but varies from PDF to PDF.

The file names in the Nook library are not taken from the filename. (Why?) They are taken from the title within the PDF properties. So about half the time I have no idea what PDF it is and being a PDF - I can't change the properties title. When it has no title - then the Nook file name is seemingly random and very weird.

The Nook guide says it reads both protected and unprotected PDFS - but it can't read either of the 2 protected PDFS I loaded. One won't open at all and the other shows 120 blank pages!

About the only good thing I can say is that there is a Go To feature that lets you choose a page or slide a bar to choose a page and that works pretty well.

07-11-2010, 10:45 PM	#18
NileSpice Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2010 Device: Nook	I just bought a Nook yesterday and so far am very frustrated with the PDFs and the Nook in general. I bought mine mostly to read PDFs and am seriously considering returning it. Some PDFS don't open at all - don't know why. If the pages in the pdf were scanned - the 8 x 11 page is displayed in whole - which makes it impossible to read since there is no zoom so the print is ver tiny. The format of non-scanned PDFS is OK - but varies from PDF to PDF. The file names in the Nook library are not taken from the filename. (Why?) They are taken from the title within the PDF properties. So about half the time I have no idea what PDF it is and being a PDF - I can't change the properties title. When it has no title - then the Nook file name is seemingly random and very weird. The Nook guide says it reads both protected and unprotected PDFS - but it can't read either of the 2 protected PDFS I loaded. One won't open at all and the other shows 120 blank pages! About the only good thing I can say is that there is a Go To feature that lets you choose a page or slide a bar to choose a page and that works pretty well. Last edited by NileSpice; 07-11-2010 at 10:47 PM.