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gatemaze · 11-23-2011, 05:43 AM

Considering that I have the Sony PRS-650 and a friend of mine has the Kindle Keyboard 3g which I have also used quite a bit I can say that (from what I read in the t1 is not that much different than the prs650 other than the wifi):

-- Regarding pdf. You should be a bit cautious regarding pdfs. I bought the PRS over the kindle because I read it has better pdf viewing support, and I also wanted to read pdf scientific papers on it. After comparing both of them as I forementioned my personal opinion is that the PRS is better than the kindle on this respect. Now it depends on what pdfs you want to read. If these are pdf books for example then it is fine, even font resizing works if the pdf is text pdf and not a scanned pdf. Obviously you have restrictions with the line wrapping due to the pdf format. If you want to read scientific papers though like I did then there are a few issues. Firstly font resizing messes up the mathematical equations. Also the 6 inches screen is not big enough for two column papers. So you have to zoom in and scroll frequently, which is the best you can do but still not the most convenient way of reading a pdf paper. Still though the PRS is much better than the kindle in pdf reading in my opinion.

One thing you should be careful though is that scanned pdfs tend to be large files, ebook readers tend to have slow processors which result in slow loading times...

-- Regarding the e-ink they both use the same screen and they are both brilliant in this respect.

-- Also I very rarely had my prs freeze (maybe 2-3 times in the last year of very frequent use and this with the old firmware). In any case pressing the reset button fixed it instantly.

11-23-2011, 05:43 AM	#5
gatemaze Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2011 Device: Sony PRS-650	Considering that I have the Sony PRS-650 and a friend of mine has the Kindle Keyboard 3g which I have also used quite a bit I can say that (from what I read in the t1 is not that much different than the prs650 other than the wifi): -- Regarding pdf. You should be a bit cautious regarding pdfs. I bought the PRS over the kindle because I read it has better pdf viewing support, and I also wanted to read pdf scientific papers on it. After comparing both of them as I forementioned my personal opinion is that the PRS is better than the kindle on this respect. Now it depends on what pdfs you want to read. If these are pdf books for example then it is fine, even font resizing works if the pdf is text pdf and not a scanned pdf. Obviously you have restrictions with the line wrapping due to the pdf format. If you want to read scientific papers though like I did then there are a few issues. Firstly font resizing messes up the mathematical equations. Also the 6 inches screen is not big enough for two column papers. So you have to zoom in and scroll frequently, which is the best you can do but still not the most convenient way of reading a pdf paper. Still though the PRS is much better than the kindle in pdf reading in my opinion. One thing you should be careful though is that scanned pdfs tend to be large files, ebook readers tend to have slow processors which result in slow loading times... -- Regarding the e-ink they both use the same screen and they are both brilliant in this respect. -- Also I very rarely had my prs freeze (maybe 2-3 times in the last year of very frequent use and this with the old firmware). In any case pressing the reset button fixed it instantly. Last edited by gatemaze; 11-23-2011 at 05:46 AM.