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ePossum · 05-30-2008, 11:15 PM

I've been using my iLiad mainly for reading and notating pdfs for study. The iLiad has significantly reduced my paper management woes.

It's dead easy to put a pdf onto the iLiad. I use mine just like an exeternal drive to my pc - drag and drop, it's all done.

The pdfs I read are mostly under a meg in size. I experience a slight delay when I intially zoom into them, (I usually read the pdfs 'sideways' on the iLiad - and 'zoom' - so the text appears larger and easier to read) - but after the intial resizing, everything is quick - each time you go back to the document, the iLiad remembers your zoom & pan settings. The largest pdf I've read on the iLiad was 12mb - and again - apart from the intial zooming, I experienced no time frustrations.

Related to this - you may want to have a think about what your charts/tables will look like on the iLiad size screen. This screen is 16cm x 12cm - as a test, size a few of your charts/tables to this dimension, and see if they're readable - if they're not, you'll need to be constantly panning in order to read your tables/charts. The panning is reasonably fast, but depending on the kind of person you are, this might drive you a little crazy (At work, I do stuff with large diagrams - and there are days when constant panning on the PC drvies me a little nutty )

I initially found the wacom dealy a bit weird, but now it's no big deal, and it doesn't slow me down at all (you need to get the calibration right though!).

The only time I really feel any frustration about the iLiad's speed is the boot up time (only a problem when I'm in impatient mode!), and the rare occasions when I have a doc with two or more columns (again, the constant panning issue). I suspect there may be a work around for this out there - but it hasn't been a frequent enough issue for me to follow up on it

An incidental frustration I've experienced is that the photocopiers at my university are for print only - ie, I can't scan docs on them - and my home scanner is note great for copying from books - so I use photocopier/scanners at work instead. You may want to think about what access you have to scanners if a large volume of your reading is print based in the first instance.

05-30-2008, 11:15 PM	#3
ePossum Enthusiast Posts: 38 Karma: 11 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Melbourne, Australia Device: iliad v.2, Dana Alphasmart	I've been using my iLiad mainly for reading and notating pdfs for study. The iLiad has significantly reduced my paper management woes. It's dead easy to put a pdf onto the iLiad. I use mine just like an exeternal drive to my pc - drag and drop, it's all done. The pdfs I read are mostly under a meg in size. I experience a slight delay when I intially zoom into them, (I usually read the pdfs 'sideways' on the iLiad - and 'zoom' - so the text appears larger and easier to read) - but after the intial resizing, everything is quick - each time you go back to the document, the iLiad remembers your zoom & pan settings. The largest pdf I've read on the iLiad was 12mb - and again - apart from the intial zooming, I experienced no time frustrations. Related to this - you may want to have a think about what your charts/tables will look like on the iLiad size screen. This screen is 16cm x 12cm - as a test, size a few of your charts/tables to this dimension, and see if they're readable - if they're not, you'll need to be constantly panning in order to read your tables/charts. The panning is reasonably fast, but depending on the kind of person you are, this might drive you a little crazy (At work, I do stuff with large diagrams - and there are days when constant panning on the PC drvies me a little nutty ) I initially found the wacom dealy a bit weird, but now it's no big deal, and it doesn't slow me down at all (you need to get the calibration right though!). The only time I really feel any frustration about the iLiad's speed is the boot up time (only a problem when I'm in impatient mode!), and the rare occasions when I have a doc with two or more columns (again, the constant panning issue). I suspect there may be a work around for this out there - but it hasn't been a frequent enough issue for me to follow up on it An incidental frustration I've experienced is that the photocopiers at my university are for print only - ie, I can't scan docs on them - and my home scanner is note great for copying from books - so I use photocopier/scanners at work instead. You may want to think about what access you have to scanners if a large volume of your reading is print based in the first instance.