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Have never used a e-reader and don't quite know the limit. But seeing nook's capability to view PDFs, i went to buy one, planning to use it primarily as a portable device to view technical stuff i have in PDFs, and secondarily as a e-book reader.

Not what I expected. I have a non-printable PDF file for "Mastering AutoCAD" which is over 70MB. Uploaded onto nook and was not successful in opening the file at all. Then a little more research led me to believe the file is just too huge for the device to handle. Didn't know that.

Then I tried to open some PDFs I created using excel. It works if there are not too many columns so the text size remain legible. Didn't realize that I can not zoom in and out (I am so naive that I thought I could do that)

Then I tried to open PDFs I created using MS Word. Pretty good, lost formatting which I expected but it reads like a real document.

PDFs created with InDesign, Photoshop are just a bunch of mess. Totally illegible.

I can only blame myself for not knowing what the device is capable of before buying it. I am sure it excels as what it is supposed to do - a e-reader for certain file formats.

My purpose of writing this is not to rant or to troll, but to reflect that a naive newcomer could have a entirely unrealistic expectation of a device's capability. I am sure most of you in this forums are experts, but for those who had no idea what a e-reader is and planned to buy one with a similar perception/ expectation as mine, understand it is not a true PDF reader in a really usable sense and you will likely to be disappointed.

I apologize if this post sounds negative at all, but I realized that I was looking for wrong thing in the wrong market. I just hope there will be a true PDF viewer in e-ink sometime.