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Originally Posted by vivaldirules
The Sony Readers are at best marginally useful for PDFs. I would say if they make it so that the Readers can be used to read typical A4- or letter-formatted PDFs without secondary conversions, then they would supporting PDFs. At the moment, they don't do that. Thanks for emailing them. I hope you hear good news!  |
If the Reader had a more controllable zoom mechanism, it would be possible to trim out blank page margins and fill the available screen real estate with text. For example, infinitely variable zoom (in conjunction with landscape orientation) makes the iPhone surprisingly usable for PDFs, even with its much smaller screen.
A flexible zoom would make the Reader's relatively huge screen usable in landscape mode with 99% of PDF ebooks without horizontal panning -- but I'm guessing that E-Ink's slow refresh makes iPhone-style, interactively adjustable zoom impossible while the Reader's clunky cursor control limits other options. Sony will have to rethink both the hardware controls and the software interface to make it happen, but it should be possible.