@Delphin,
No, I am not joking. I haven't tried a single PDF android app that remembered my last page read -- something that is very necessary for reading a long PDF book when I usually jump between 3-4 books before finishing. I've also yet to find something that supports panning, zooming, and -- most importantly of all -- LOCKING a specific zoom setting into place for an entire book.
Sony does all these things effortlessly. The various Nook iterations don't even offer half of those features. It's a major issue for me.
Publishers send out PDF books to reviewers because they want to represent the book as it will appear on the printed page. Unfortunately, on a 6" screen that either tries to re-flow the text (which the Nook will try to do) or maintains everything at a single, 100% display without zoom (which the Nook will fall back on if the re-flow isn't working out), this is
unreadable for the majority of the PDFs I receive.
Sony, by contrast, lets me tweak the zoom ratio to precisely what I need, and then lets me lock it in place. I never have to think about it for the rest of the book -- heck, it remembers my zoom settings even if I leave the book and come back later. There are all kinds of useful options for accessing different PDF formats, including the 2-column view which is necessary for "coffee table" books.
If you think
any of the Nook iterations handle PDFs well, well, you haven't been reading the PDFs in
my library. My Sony handles them all beautifully, and I couldn't be happier. (I had to use their 2-column view yesterday, in fact and it worked like a charm.) I love it.
If you honestly think the Nook handles PDFs better than Sony... well, I don't know what to say to that. I'm tempted to say you haven't actually
read a PDF on either, but who am I to discount the opinions of a stranger? I'll just say that I have a completely different viewpoint than you.
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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.
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When something perfect already exists, why would I wait around in the hopes that the crappy solution gets better?
For
me, the Sony PDF handling is quite literally perfect. I cannot imagine a way to improve it. Maybe I'll think of a way later, but for the moment I'm as happy as a pig in mud.
The android apps on the market currently just aren't in the same league. I like QuickOffice, but the inability to lock in a zoom or remember the last page read is very frustrating to me, and I don't see them fixing it any time soon, since they are marketing to business people with short PDFs, not readers like me.
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(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)
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Which is still more annotation export than any of the Nooks provide.........