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Originally Posted by polly
I've heard good things about the PocketBooks and really like my Sony 650. Right now, the Pearl screens, used by the Kindle 3 and the Sony 350/650/950, are the best screens on the market.
PDF is a horrible format for readers, especially if they are images instead of text. The format is designed to render a 8.5x11 page exactly as it was created. Those images aren't going to work well on any of the 6" readers out there. Since these are free and out of copyright books, I'd recommend looking at the 18,000 books posted here at Mobilread. You'll find that they are very well formatted and already in formats, like ePub and mobi, that do well on readers. People like HarryT take books from places like Google books and Project Gutenberg, clean them up, create tables of contents, rework the images, and format them to look good on ereaders. |
Hi Polly
Thanks for your reply.
I think you're probably right. In the longer term I think I'm going to have to work on the PDFs myself. I just don't have the time at the moment. I don't mind using landscape and zoom but would love to see an screenshot example on a 6 inch screen such as the 602. I don't expect it to be perfect and am prepared to live with some of the downfalls of viewing PDFs that I haven't got the equivalent mobi/epub of. Any bigger screens I think would mean less portability which is one of my main requirements.
Cheers
Liz