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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
So far, the one reader I've found useful for pdfs is the PRS-950; whether that's due to screen size alone or screen size + flexibility, I haven't yet decided. I have noticed it's quite difficult to return to my Kindle 3 after using the 950. I'll have to take both to a store that carries the Touch and A/B/C all three.
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I agree that given the limitations of the current crop of eInk devices when viewing PDFs,
if you insist on using a small profile eInk device, the PRS-950 is one of the best options.
A lot of folks don't realize this, but the resolution (1024x600), and the screen size (7 inch), is the same on the Sony PRS-950 and B&N Nook Color.
The difference of course, is that the Nook Color is a TFT LCD, where the Sony has a black and white eInk Pearl screen.
Unfortunately, the 7 inch screens on both the Nook Color and PRS-950 are at the extreme lower limit of what is usable for comfortable PDF viewing.
Software wise, I agree that B&N's default PDF viewer is worse than the default Sony PDF viewer, but contrary to what has been said, I think recent improvements in the Android apps give the Nook Color some fairly good 3rd party options (ezPDF, RepliGo, etc), so that's not the real issue.
Unfortunately, as I said above, I think the REAL ISSUE (that effects BOTH the PRS-950 and Nook Color equally) is simply that a 7 inch 1024x600 screen is just a little too small for most folks to find comfortable when it comes to full page PDF viewing, and nearly ANY kind of zoomed PDF viewing is a pain, regardless of how clever your software is.
So getting back to this threads topic of the Nook Touch vs. the Sony's . . .
Though I am pretty sure that the Nook Touch will eventually have a first rate PDF viewer that supports landscape mode, annotations, etc. (if not from B&N, then from a third party Android app), this will not magically make it 'perfect' for PDFs, because a 6 inch screen is just NEVER going to be that great when it comes to PDFs no matter how good the viewer software is.
I guess that B&N figured this out, and set their development priorities on that basis, putting emphasis on the Nook Touches EPUB support, which has some bells and whistles that the Sony lacks, like user selectable fonts, and line spacing.