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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
Ok here it comes. A very nice device would be the Odyssey. Not because I have one, but because I have one and just checked pd support out first hand. It was a non-issue for me since I don't do pdf. So I d/led 2 phd thesis - first one a 900k file with actual text and diagrams and tables. The second a 32mb god-aweful scanned in and left as image file for each page. Performance wise both did the same with instant zoom change instant page turns instant portrait to landscape rotation.The first file of course looked a lot better - so lets concentrate on the smaller file since you cant fix ugly. Crop margins works so good that you should disable the display of the status bar or it will cover part of the pdf at the edge as there is literaly no margin left. On a page that only has the page number you are greeted by a HUUUGE number across the screen. Means it does crop each page individually. You can rotate the pdf 90 degrees and flip it upside down and that is independent from your screen rotation. see next post
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Interesting, this is useful info. Thanks.
Unfortunately I have heard from others that there are still USB issues (on the Debian operating system), and some reports of freezing up. What's your experience been with those sorts of problems?
I went into WH Smith in Oxford St. today to see if I could look at a PDF on a kobo touch, and they said that they didn't have a PDF and couldn't let me put a memory card in to look at my own, but the store in Westfield (near Shepherd's Bush tube station) do let you do that. On the other hand, I see there is a workaround for the spyware issue, and some good early work has been done on replacing the software with entirely open source code, so the kobo could yet (just barely) meet all my "non-negotiable" criteria.