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Originally Posted by calvarez
Ouch, the iLiad looks very good, but it's a bit out of my price range. I was hoping for something around ~$300, $350 tops.
So, is the larger screen and higher res the only reasons to recommend the iLiad over the rest? How relevant are these 2 criteria for PDF reading? I think the answer may be obvious, but I want to know of personal experiences (i.e. "SVGA and/or 6in is not enough for PDF IMO")
Again, I'm sorry for asking so much but I'm not familiar at all with e-readers, so an experiences like that are useful for me.
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Are you familiar with PDF? Do you realize that it is a page format and the only way to get it on a smaller screen in page format is to shrink it? That is the state of affairs for 6" screens today. The iLiad not only has a larger 8" screen but it is the only e-INK devices to offer zooming of PDF files. In addition it has a touch screen and is useful to take notes. PDF's can be turned sideways on the device and this permits reading a PDF fairly well.
If the document can be reflowed it will work on a PDA but none of the e-ink devices support reflow. Instead some of them can convert the text but the image will still have to be shrunk. Only you can tell what while work for you.
Only the hanlin supports CHM natively but again it can be converted.
Dale