[sherbs]

Had a go with pre6. Seemed a little faster but then I hit some problems. I got about four pages down and the next page stayed white with black, quarter page sized rectangles flashing randomly. Also, scrolling back over already loaded pages seemed to cause them to reload, sometimes with the black rectangles.

I must say that the pages do look good and before the problems, speed was not far off what I get with ezPDF, although their app is obviously more polished and shows a loading icon while you wait.

These magazines are heavily image laden though, the one I'm using to test is 113MB. Maybe we're at the limit of what a portable device can do with them. My PC handles them in two-page spreads without a blink.

Cheers.

As an afterthought, I loaded a simple, plain text pdf, size 79KB. Loading was obviously a lot quicker but scrolling wasn't smooth and stopped the moment I took my finger off the screen. Also there were still black rectangles showing on pages as they were scrolled into view.