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Originally Posted by n0b0
I study economics and it is therefore primarily for these kinds of books that I will read on it.
Mostly it will be PDF with a lot of formulas and sometimes graphs. I therefore don't know if the 5 inch screen is just too small or if it will work.
Hope you can help me decide  |
I do not want to rain on your parade, but here you go.
The size of the screen on my PB360 is 75x101mm.
Take a representative sample of your pdf (it is most probably A4 or Letter) and print it on a piece of paper 75x101mm large. You can also use copier where zoom can be set, and make a copy with zoom factor of about 0.36. Then measure the width of text and change zoom factor, so you get *text* that is 75mm wide (PocketBook can strip away the empty margins at the sides). The result is not very readable, is it?
Even if you turn the reader sideways (90°) and use the 101mm width of the screen to display the width of text, you still view that pdf in 1:2 scale.
PocketBook can reflow the pdf text, but results are not great if you use the function in a complicated text with a lot of formulas and/or graphs.
You see, I just LOVE my PB360, but I only use it for reading strictly linear fiction. I have tried to read some programming books, and it IS doable, but you are far better of if you print out and bind the book, which is what I do with programming books I wish to read away from my computer.