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PDFs are often heavy with various types of rendered content (graphics, text-as-image, etc). My experience with various ebook readers and tablets is as follows:
- PDFs need quite a bit of power to render and read them properly. Most e-ink readers and many lower priced tablets don't have this power so they have to take shortcuts (badly rendered) or they take forever to load, zoom, scroll, or turn pages.
- You need a larger screen. I wouldn't want to read many PDF files on anything less than an iPad sized screen. As it is, the text can often be quite small on my iPad, and zooming and scrolling around a page can be a little tedious. I've used various 7" tablets and the screen size simply isn't large enough to contain the page properly. Some people don't see this as a problem like I do though
- Shorter PDF files like the ones you are describing should open faster on a lower priced ebook reader, but it can still take some time to render each page... I'd recommend getting hands on with anything you're looking at to see if the page rendering time is an issue for you.
Basically, if you want e-ink, I'd have to recommend the kindle dx or the Sony PRS-900/950. I don't, however, have any experience with how they render PDFs. Your best chance at getting the pages rendered properly is to get an LCD tablet unfortunately.
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