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Originally Posted by ThomasC
jocampo, I don't find the larger # of words per line on my DXG more fatiguing. I find it lot less fatiguing than all those extra k3 inter-page screen flashes imho. In any case you can reduce the line width (small, med, lrg) in the aa menu if need be.
Not 100% sure about the narrow column newspaper analogy but I think that some of this also has to do with the flexible nature of newsprint, print quality, and the ability to put multiple topics on a single page.
As long as your pdf's are less than ~6mb they all seem work pretty well (avg kindle ebook is less than 0.8mb btw). In my experience, once you load in a ~10mb pdf file it starts to get a bit slow, a 20mb one starts to get painfully slow, and +30mb pdf's can start to hang your system (then you need to do a hard reset).
Personally, there is no way I'd use and ipad (or PC) for a nice, long, enjoyable read.
Right now, this $259 DXG price is the best thing that is ever going to happen for a lot of lucky ebook readers imho.
Cheers,
Tom
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Hi Tom,
Fair enough. It looks like the DXG is a nice choice for you but trust me, is really slow for reading technical PDF. For linear PDF is ok. Just using the menu and jumping chapters is really slow. YOu can't make annotations or totally edit the document like you can with an iPad.
It's a shame Amazon has not upgraded the firmware. It can be a fantastic eink reader but the true is , has been put in the oblivion. Even the Kindle 3 which is less expensive do page turns faster and is more stable with PDFs. The issue is that 6 inches is too small for a PDF.
Hope I'm wrong, but got the feeling Amazon will stop support for DXG soon and focus on 10 inch tablet instead, more profit. The market for 10 inch eink devices is not as big as for 6 inches eink readers.
The narrow a paragraph , the more can be read with just one quick look and the more can be processed by your brain. That's why newspaper are printed that way, same for magazines, less ball eye movement, less visual fatigue. I know about it, have a fast reading book and taking the course ;-)