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Originally Posted by ProDigit
I am under the impression that the jetbook is a great general purpose reader, as it can display most pdf files perfectly, and they are readable!
The reader may be a bit heavier than standard readers, and the pages may flip pretty slow, but in my mind, there are only few devices that can display a PDF resolution (the color, kindle dx, are a few of them)
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Having used it a bit more now my fondness for it is growing. I think the main weaknesses are the darker screen and lower contrast than I'm used to from the latest E-Ink Pearl screens, the slightly slow page flip speed (although that varies with the document), the missing web browser and the under-featured document viewers (especially not being able to page forward or back when you're zoomed in to a PDF). Of those, the last two are definitely fixable by a firmware update, the speed might be tweakable a bit, and we're stuck with the screen. For a first generation of a brand new (to commercial devices) technology I think it's not bad at all.
Back on the subject of comics I've now learnt to use the ImageMagick "convert" command, and I've found boosting the colour saturation of an image to the extent that it looks silly on an LCD monitor helps a lot on the jetBook.
Andrew