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Originally Posted by LiquidEssence
Hey, I've been checking them (the Pocketbooks) out, but as I mentioned earlier --- they are almost 400€ and that seems a tad too high at the moment and at the moment I will probably opt for waiting until the prices drop for the 9 inchers.
Now hat I think of it, actually the biggest question would be about what kind of experience people have with reading text pdf's on 6 inch screens - is it really awkward, or is it tolerable? Zetmolm has already sketched out some points on this issue
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Prior to switching to the iPad, I used a PRS900 and then a PRS950 for PDFs.
I used to remove margins with BRISS. This became a bit less of a necessity with the 950, as it does at least partially cut white space around the page, but it still helps.
Even so, most PDFs are hard to read in portrait, without zoom. And I found zooming around the page to be too cumbersome for continuous reading.
So my solution was always to use the 900 and 950 in landscape mode for PDFs. That will display only a third of the page, as mentioned above, but that third is pretty much 'real size'. Very readable and very pleasant, unless you have tables and graphs which might get cut (but you already mentioned that is not the case, if I am not mistaken).
I know the 900 and 950 are not sold in Europe. Yet, I was able to find importers in Italy last summer. I would not recommend the 600s for landscape PDF reading - the smaller screen is somehow more of a bother in landscape mode than in portrait (maybe because of the ratios... not sure... just an impression).
EDIT: doh, I just realized you were asking about 6" specifically... the PRS9x0 are 7" screens...