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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
Are you answering anamardoll's polite and comparatively reasonable post or taunting her Sony Reader like a character from Monty Python? You seem rather gleefully invested at the moment, whereas before you were scoring a few points.
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Yes the over the top sarcastic use of the word "stupid" was intended to hammer home the point that having a mark up capability that only lets you see the marked up result on the reader, and that can't export the full document with the markups intact, so that they can be seen in context, is anything but "perfect".
So YES, my use of the word 'stupid' was over-the-top, but so was describing the Sony's only passable PDF rendering, and deeply flawed 'export' feature as being "already perfect".
Sorry, if you were offended, but I have seen a half dozen posts over the last several months from disappointed Sony users who spent hours making notes and highlights, only to find that these could not be exported in useful form from Sony's software, and I would prefer that anyone who does decide to go with the Sony understand what they are buying.
Yes, the Sony's onboard PDF handling is marginally better than the Nook Touch, but it is anything but "perfect".
For example, take the much ballyhooed 'Zoom Lock', instead of simply putting a "Zoom-200%" or some such reminder down at the bottom of the screen in the status line area, and making it so that you can touch this to pop-up the zoom slider control (like the volume control works in windows), which would have left the screen clear of clutter, Sony keeps the Zoom slider on screen and in the way while you adjust the zoom.
Then, when you lock the zoom setting, Sony replaces the Zoom control with an almost equally obnoxious on screen "unlock" button that blocks out part of the first line of text (when any programmer with the brains god gave a gerbil would have handled this with a status tray icon to avoid cluttering up the screen.)
Compare this to how zooming is handled in some of the Nook Color PDF viewer Android Apps, which keep the screen totally clear of clutter, and allow you to simply use a multi-touch pinch or unpinch to zoom or shrink the screen image, while dragging the entire page around at the same time.
Of course, Sony may not have designed the IR touch screen to support multi-touch, but even so, that would mean that there are only about 100 ways to handle it better than Sony did, rather than 200.
Again, my apologies to you and anamardoll if you though my language extreme, but I don't think gushing superlatives are doing anyone any favors either, because though the PDF handling on the Sony is usable, and may be marginally better than the Nook's at present, it's still anything but perfect.