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Old 11-29-2010, 02:10 PM   #9
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IMHO, none of these will work well with two-column academic papers. I don't know what discipline you're in, but in mine, papers have small type (often 9 point) and very small margins. Reader displays are smaller than paper, making the text too small to read. So there will be a lot of panning and zooming, which is painful on an e-ink device. An iPad is probably your best bet today. Personally, I use my Kindle for novels, and either print my PDFs or read them on my laptop.

I should say that I don't personally have experience with PDF reflows on the 950, but I am very dubious whether it will work well enough for papers with lots of figures and math. Definitely find a way to try before you buy - perhaps someone here who owns one would be kind enough to try it out for you if you sent them a paper.
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