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Originally Posted by Latinandgreek
I'm deciding between a Kindle DXG and an iPad 2, myself, for PDFs. I find that I can read many PDFs of journal articles surprisingly well on my Sony PRS-350, but some articles and scanned books definitely need to be read on a larger screen.
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hey ya,
I had a DXG for a couple weeks about a month ago or so and sent it back. Not exclusively due to the PDF rendering but it was a factor. Really it was a confluence of PDF rendering and in document navigation felt beyond awkward compared the the iPod Touch 4 I had at the same time. In fact I preferred using the Touch over the DXG.
Were is me I would look at either an gen 1 iPad or the Pocketbook 902/903 as viable options. Of course there is the upcoming Onyx M90 and as I remember Dulin really does like the PDF handling on the Onyx 60 (sorry I forget the exact model number
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It's either a shame none of the devices have solid PDF handling software or it's that some really awful PDF's are being created using non-Adobe tools or just bad PDF creation tools. I really did like Goodreader a lot. I do wonder how much was simply due to the touch interface which makes zooming and moving around the pages nearly transparent. However, I like to take notes in my books and much prefer hand written notes over a keyboard. So I just backed away for now even though PDF's would represent a near to trivial number of my reference. However one book could mean $1000s in profits, or losses if I don't have mobile access to the references. So the number is not as important as decent access to the PDF's themselves plus any notations. I generally don't think I have a current need to seach my annotations, then again I have never had the ability to use them this way soooo ???
A shame really that we still are at this level for PDF's.
Hope ya find something soon!
Now I think I'll brew up a fresh batch of my fav Turkish cawfee concoction.
