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fjtorres · 01-17-2011, 12:19 PM

The biggest issue isn't speed.
It's functionality.
You're not going to get much in the way of features on the pdf viewers available on Android since most are geared for cellphone use.
If you're looking to use it for textbooks you'll probably want to do anotations and maybe even roundtrip the annotated pdfs to a PC. Those kinds of things are best done on a PC.
If you just want to "print to screen" and just look at the page image then the IQ will be decent and the 9xx eink readers good.
But if academic PDF use is your primary focus you really need a more robust *computing* platform.

01-17-2011, 12:19 PM	#7
fjtorres Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,732 Karma: 128354696 Join Date: May 2009 Location: 26 kly from Sgr A* Device: T100TA,PW2,PRS-T1,KT,FireHD 8.9,K2, PB360,BeBook One,Axim51v,TC1000	The biggest issue isn't speed. It's functionality. You're not going to get much in the way of features on the pdf viewers available on Android since most are geared for cellphone use. If you're looking to use it for textbooks you'll probably want to do anotations and maybe even roundtrip the annotated pdfs to a PC. Those kinds of things are best done on a PC. If you just want to "print to screen" and just look at the page image then the IQ will be decent and the 9xx eink readers good. But if academic PDF use is your primary focus you really need a more robust computing platform.