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Originally Posted by sovre
So far as a pdf reader I've found my Sony 950 pretty disappointing. ...
... Hopefully someone here who is more adept at working with pdfs and has had more success in getting them to readably display can give you some better tips than myself.
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I have to agree. Though my PRS-650 does at least try to re-flow PDF's so you can change to a larger font, the results are really hit or miss.
For full screen PDF viewing I haven't found anything better than using my Netbook with Ubuntu's standard built in Gnome PDF viewer.
I turn the Netbook 90 Degrees, then use the drop-down menu options to rotate the PDF 90 degrees and put the Gnome PDF viewer into 'presentation' viewing mode.
This lets you read the Netbook like a real book, using the left and right keypad buttons as dedicated page-forward and page-back page turn buttons.
My Gateway LT23 is only about 3 pounds, which is less than or equal to the weight of most full sized hardback books.
The touchpad mouse buttons on the LT23 are right at the edge, just like the dedicated page turn buttons on a Nook or Kindle, and the Ubuntu does an terrific job of font rendering with the built if viewer, and if that's not good enough, you can run Adobe's latest and greatest Adobe Reader and set it up the same way.
With Android getting better every day, eventually I may be able to replace my Netbook with an even more compact Android tablet, but for now I need the ability to run both Win7 and Ubuntu, so I can deal with just these kinds of issues.
