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Originally Posted by ZeBuddha
Don't hold me on this, but from what I've picked up reading through the forum while trying to pick what reader I was going to get, you'd probably have been better off with an Illiad... but then of course there's a price to that... in both dimensions and $$$...
Afaik, the PRS-500 and all other 6" readers are basically just text-only. They CAN display images, etc., but it's not their main purpose. Heck, I still use my PSP to read mangas, simply cos it can scroll and it can quickly zoom-in/out...
And as far as pdf are concerned... well... the entire format is designed from the ground up as a wysiwyg hardcopy/print format, on paper at 300dpi or more. And it's extremely inflexible when it comes to resizing/etc. Trying to reformat complex/image-rich pdfs for a 6" screen is like trying to print a flash website... it might be possible, but it's simply not designed for it.
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This is why some of us wish Adobe Digital Editions were onboard a reader. All would come to life but I guess eink being what it is would hamper it quite a bit. For instance there is no refresh rate for that screen, it is refreshed only at each button command, so scrolling and zooming being fundamentally 'animation' are prevented from functioning properly. The next eink would have to be like the Iliad, but there goes battery duration. Can't have it all... sigh!