Thread: Comparison photos of new Sony 350 and Kindle 3
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Old 09-12-2010, 06:28 PM   #53
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For most of the PDF's I've purchased, the PDf reflow on the Sony readers has been pretty sad, resulting in ugly text. Line breaks where there shouldn't be line breaks, no paragraph breaks where there should be paragraph breaks, and pages mid-chapter with only a couple lines of text on them. Lots of times it will take an entire page of dialogue and reflow it into one long paragraph, making the dialogue difficult to follow. I've even come across some ebooks where the reflow has rearranged entire paragraphs (displays part of paragraph 1, followed by paragraphs 2 and 3, followed by the rest of paragraph 1). I don't think there's much they could do to improve the reflow on those ebooks, so I usually just read PDFs in landscape mode on the 6" reader without the reflow.

In that respect, the 6" Sony and 6" Kindles would probably end in a tie for me. As long as I can read PDFs in landscape mode without having to resort to reflow, I'm happy. The PRS-350, though, would probably lose the battle with the Kindle 3 based on my reading habits. Even in landscape mode the fonts would still be too small for me to read on the 350. At least that has been the case with my current PRS-300.
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