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yacoob · 09-27-2010, 04:40 PM

A question to you PRS-650 owners: Do you read technical content on your device? One that include code? diagrams?

I'm a happy owner of PRS-505, unhappy owner of a broken IREX DR800, and today I've got shown PRS-650. Apart from the better screen, the zoom options, speed and landscape mode got my attention. Nowadays, with 505 it's rather futile to read books about (say) Python - 6" screen means either a reflow (which kills the code layout) or a very small letters. How does that look on 650?

As far as I can tell, from oogling at videos and reading the manual, the zoom-mode is something that you need to enable explicitly, and there's no easy way to pan around with cursor keys - you'd need to use swipe gestures for that. I *think* that with the speed of redraws that I've seen on the videos, landscape mode + fit to width would do just fine, for reading technical content. Most awesome option would be 'double tap image to zoom in', but it looks like this gesture only works if you're already in a zoom mode?

Anyway, all opinions about this kind of 650 use are welcome. And I'm more interested in your opinion, in terms of readability and reading comfort[1], rather than lack/presence of features that you don't use

[1] I read books from my 505 while walking down the street. Works excellent, as far as it's prose.

Thanks!

09-27-2010, 04:40 PM	#1
yacoob Zealot Posts: 120 Karma: 1326 Join Date: Feb 2009 Device: none	Technical PDFs on 650 A question to you PRS-650 owners: Do you read technical content on your device? One that include code? diagrams? I'm a happy owner of PRS-505, unhappy owner of a broken IREX DR800, and today I've got shown PRS-650. Apart from the better screen, the zoom options, speed and landscape mode got my attention. Nowadays, with 505 it's rather futile to read books about (say) Python - 6" screen means either a reflow (which kills the code layout) or a very small letters. How does that look on 650? As far as I can tell, from oogling at videos and reading the manual, the zoom-mode is something that you need to enable explicitly, and there's no easy way to pan around with cursor keys - you'd need to use swipe gestures for that. I think that with the speed of redraws that I've seen on the videos, landscape mode + fit to width would do just fine, for reading technical content. Most awesome option would be 'double tap image to zoom in', but it looks like this gesture only works if you're already in a zoom mode? Anyway, all opinions about this kind of 650 use are welcome. And I'm more interested in your opinion, in terms of readability and reading comfort[1], rather than lack/presence of features that you don't use [1] I read books from my 505 while walking down the street. Works excellent, as far as it's prose. Thanks!