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I have two admit that parkher got me worried while MatthiasR gave me back my hopes.
Having to read around 10000 PDF pages at least in the next coming months made me want to buy a 9.7" (10") eInk device. Considering the task and the amount of reading and also considering the eye strain that my two monitors are giving me such a device MUST do the work otherwise I will have to kill a forest printing and I will be done in 2 years with reading these which is not good at all.

I am thinking about starting a conversation here on one of the forums just to hear what others have done and what solutions they found for problems like mine.
In order to get rid of the eye strain I have tried the following:
two monitors, different sizes -16:9 factor does not help reading at all. They are excellent for work comparing diagrams working in terminals and looking at diagrams and documentation for short reading but they are not good for long term sustained reading. The form factor ast parker suggested is a problem, you line becomes too long (for fluid web pages especially)
For reading I am using PDF Xchange reader which is an excellent program, the only major drawback it seem to have is the PDF rendering, more exactly the font rendering is not very precise compared with Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader where the fonts are sharper.
Xchange Reader has the optimum feature set that I need, it is fast and light so the functionality is there and I am very happy with it. So font rendering is a problem (they said they are working on it).
When reading on monitors another problem is the amount of light coming from your screens and the contrast between font and background. I have tried to adjust all these factors but none of them made the reading comfortable. The distance between the monitors and your eyes and also the position of the monitors matters too. I had to read a little about these and I realized that at work most of the people around me had the monitors positioned wrong (myself included) . That is fixed now but did not change much, the eye strain is still there. I also considered getting arms for my monitors so I can vary the distance between my eyes and the screens. I am already alternating the reading from one monitor to the other (they are positioned on an L shape table one in the corner and the other on the short leg of the L letter). None of these solved the problem.

Disappointed I change my focus to tablets. The first thing to be identified was the software that would give me the functionality and I also had to find out if the screen is any better than the monitors (for reading). Had to use all sort of tricks to be able to try ezPDF reader on various tablets without buying them. I have come to the conclusion that 6-7" inch is not enough and tablets can be worse than monitors for reading.
The only satisfactory experience that I have had was with reading on Pocket Edge. ezPDF reader has a night mode where your font is white on black background. Not the best combination on any other reader just because of the glaring that is accentuated on the new very shiny screens. Being an older reader Entourage Pocket has a glossy screen and that worked. The only problem was the 6" size of the screen (I am talking here about the android side with the color screen, Pocket Edge has two screens, eInk and TFT or whatever the technology is called).
So right now I am looking for a Entourage Edge (10") but that will be just for color PDFs where I do need to see the color information. I might switch my attention to JetBookColor if down the road, in the next 6 months the quality of the software running on that device changes. I might also buy an Asus eee 121, that is 12" but I am worried about glaring and the fact tha having to keep it too close to my eyes might make the problems worse. The device sells for 600$ factory refurbished or 1000$ brand new. At this point I am not convinced that it is worth the money although no doubts the screen size and the functionality have no match. Unfortunately the problem that I can not live with will still be there: eyes strain.

Having these said my only hope is a 10" eInk device. I already ordered an M92, I should receiv it by the end of this week. Reading what parkher and MatthiasR wrote makes me wonder if my problems will ever end :-) .

Now coming back to the issues mentioned by parkher and MatthiasR I have to underline that both of them seem to pay the price for leaving in Europe :-)). Most of my PDFs are Letter not A4 and I just used a ruler to measure the text block on a couple of printed pages.... the diagonal of such a text block is, for many of them, 10" minimum and 12" maximum with an average of 11". That would result in an average rescaling of 0.9 when displayed on the ereder which seem to be acceptable, but again that is for Letter pages. So your not so good experience might have something to do with that. Please try documents that where created for printing on Letter and see if the experience is better..

PS: I might have ignored the resolution difference between printing and displaying the PDF on eink. That is a factor as well