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soondai · 01-28-2011, 04:45 PM

sounds like you had a lemon or the firmware has been drastically improved.

I've never encountered any of those problems.

I use mine for all my PDF reading and I've been using it more and more for ePubs. The screen resolution is not fantastic. But I set the screen brightness as low as it goes and read in night mode (white text on black backround) on the stock reader for ePubs and Repligo for PDFs and really like it.

I only run into trouble on a few PDF books that are scanned, and thus cannot be night-moded. With them, the white screen can be a little much.

I was very surprised how well the machine handles PDFs. I have books that are up to 25 MB in size and there is very little lag rendering them.

It's a deal at $100 and was a steal at 60.

01-28-2011, 04:45 PM	#8
soondai Guru Posts: 672 Karma: 1109784 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: Paperwhite	sounds like you had a lemon or the firmware has been drastically improved. I've never encountered any of those problems. I use mine for all my PDF reading and I've been using it more and more for ePubs. The screen resolution is not fantastic. But I set the screen brightness as low as it goes and read in night mode (white text on black backround) on the stock reader for ePubs and Repligo for PDFs and really like it. I only run into trouble on a few PDF books that are scanned, and thus cannot be night-moded. With them, the white screen can be a little much. I was very surprised how well the machine handles PDFs. I have books that are up to 25 MB in size and there is very little lag rendering them. It's a deal at $100 and was a steal at 60.