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Originally Posted by anamardoll
@Delphin,
Yep, I'm smug and happy in my choice. 
I already have a CM7-modded Nook Color and I know very intimately what options I have on a rooted tablet. The fact of the matter is that there is nothing out there on the Google Market that I've tried that handles a PDF like this Sony reader does. So I'm pleased as punch.  |
You're joking right?
I find the Nook Color's built in PDF handling fine for simple reading, and there is no lack of good PDF apps for Android, that's just crap.
For rooted Nooks, if you don't like B&N's default PDF handling, you can try either Adobe's official Acrobat Reader for Android (free, but fairly limited right at the moment), or splurge and spend a couple bucks on either ezPDF or RepliGo which are both very capable commercial apps.
In my opinion, these apps already blow away the Sony's built in PDF viewer, and guess what? . . . They are getting better every day. (good luck EVER getting an update from Sony.)
The Sony includes reflow and annotations, but I just don't use that feature much, because I find Sony's half-assed implementation of the PDF annotation feature pretty useless. (at a minimum, for non-restricted non-DRM PDF's, you should be able to export them with all the graphic and text mark-ups intact, right from the Sony Reader Library, but Sony only supports a really lame text export feature)
And so far as Sony's supposedly better PDF reflow goes . . .
I have seen BOTH the Sony and Nook first hand, and Sony's PDF reflow feature seems to be just as hit or miss as the Touch Nook version - i.e. it works fantastically well on some simple text docs, and mangles the hell out of most more complicated PDF docs.
With almost 400,000 apps out there for android, including literally dozens of book viewer apps, I would be astonished if Androids PDF handling did not improve, and given Sony's record on updates, I would be just as astonished if my PRS-650's did.