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ghumdinger · 06-19-2010, 02:54 PM

Hi all!

Boy am I glad to find this thread. I'm a student too, and I've been hunting up and down for a suitable e-book reader. I was almost starting to give up and find another solution.

I work a lot with PDF documents and I'm after the e-ink screen. It's just simply too difficult to read on a LCD screen due to the glare.

My "deal-breaker" requirements:

1) Direct annotation to PDF – highlights, comments, bookmaring etc.
2) Reflow a properly tagged PDF, preferably on PDF with images.

I've looked at all the popular ones and eliminated them one by one!

Sony PRS-600 - annotations are stored in a separate XML store.
QueReader - no expansion slot, no stylus support
Irex DR-800SG - no annotation support at all
Foxit eslick - Does not show PDF's bookmarks.
Kindle DX - poor annotation support as well, it seems judging from the outcome of the Princeton pilot study.

Can't blame them on the other hand since they are actually targeted people looking for a nice gadget to leisure read (chronologically) instead of working with documents (search, annotate, reference).

@cheyennedonna, @ChrisF
Good to hear you love your eDGe. Have you worked with PDFs on it before (on the e-ink side)? Is it practical for document reading and annotating? Are the annotations stored directly on the PDFs?

Just a little background. I'm pretty attracted to the idea of a paperless work style. It seems to me to be the only feasible way of staying on top of documents and overwhelming information. The in-content indexing search in Win 7 allows me to look up something I've archived or annotated very quickly. The accessibility it gives is so powerful - it makes searching hard documents, filings, and books primitive in comparison. Right now, I'm trying to build on it by having a way to work on-the-go - reading, annotating digitally, and synchronizing back to my desktop. Without being able to work digitally on the go (desktop is definitely impossible, a laptop still is not as portable as a e-book reader and neither does it have the e-ink screen!), I doubt the paperless concept can go very far.

06-19-2010, 02:54 PM	#10
ghumdinger Edge User	Working with PDFs Hi all! Boy am I glad to find this thread. I'm a student too, and I've been hunting up and down for a suitable e-book reader. I was almost starting to give up and find another solution. I work a lot with PDF documents and I'm after the e-ink screen. It's just simply too difficult to read on a LCD screen due to the glare. My "deal-breaker" requirements: 1) Direct annotation to PDF – highlights, comments, bookmaring etc. 2) Reflow a properly tagged PDF, preferably on PDF with images. I've looked at all the popular ones and eliminated them one by one! Sony PRS-600 - annotations are stored in a separate XML store. QueReader - no expansion slot, no stylus support Irex DR-800SG - no annotation support at all Foxit eslick - Does not show PDF's bookmarks. Kindle DX - poor annotation support as well, it seems judging from the outcome of the Princeton pilot study. Can't blame them on the other hand since they are actually targeted people looking for a nice gadget to leisure read (chronologically) instead of working with documents (search, annotate, reference). @cheyennedonna, @ChrisF Good to hear you love your eDGe. Have you worked with PDFs on it before (on the e-ink side)? Is it practical for document reading and annotating? Are the annotations stored directly on the PDFs? Just a little background. I'm pretty attracted to the idea of a paperless work style. It seems to me to be the only feasible way of staying on top of documents and overwhelming information. The in-content indexing search in Win 7 allows me to look up something I've archived or annotated very quickly. The accessibility it gives is so powerful - it makes searching hard documents, filings, and books primitive in comparison. Right now, I'm trying to build on it by having a way to work on-the-go - reading, annotating digitally, and synchronizing back to my desktop. Without being able to work digitally on the go (desktop is definitely impossible, a laptop still is not as portable as a e-book reader and neither does it have the e-ink screen!), I doubt the paperless concept can go very far. Last edited by ghumdinger; 06-19-2010 at 02:59 PM.