[Mike's Place]

Hello everyone!

I just joined today. I live in the East Bay (near San Francisco, Ca).

After about six months of studying the different readers I had decided to get a new 10" Fujitsu stylist with a 10hr battery.

Before I could buy the Fujitsu, and to my surprise, my wife and mother presented me with a Sony Reader PRS-505. I didn't let on, but I wasn't happy. The reviews were terrible. I loaded up a math book as a PDF and couldn't read it because the print was too small.

Then I discovered this wonderful forum. I downloaded PDFLRFwin-0.99 and WOW!!! What a difference! It digests everything I throw at it and produces perfectly readable mathematical books. Now I love my reader! It has replaced a banker box of books and papers that use to accompany me on car trips (which explains why my wife was so happy to provide me with the Reader).

I am so glad I have the Sony Reader instead of the bulkier Fujitsu. It is pretty darn near perfect (oh sure, nested TOC/bookmarks would be slick and so would searches, but I'm doing fine without them).

Two weeks ago I flew coast to coast then back with no entertainment save my Reader. On my return I still had two bars of charge left on my battery.

I hope to return to college next year so I'm studying my undergraduate math and first year graduate math classes.

Are there any other math guys out there using the Sony Reader?