Thread: First Impressions of the M218A Ebook Reader
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Old 06-17-2008, 11:24 PM   #70
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Originally Posted by Fred Doolie View Post
Well! This looks like just the one I want but I'd like to ask a couple questions:

1) The *MAIN* reason I want an ebook reader is for PDFs. To be specific my digitized magazine PDFs. I have (or will have) magazine collections on DVDs*. These are PDF files containing hyperlinked entries and the pages are digitized magazine page images: not text. Can the M218 handle these well? I know they will be pixilated when zommed of course but can the M218 resize embedded images and handle the hyperlinked menus, entries and stuff?

2) How does a 16-level grayscale display handle photos? Does it dither those 16,000,000 colors into 16 grey shades? Are the pretty girls on the pages going to look all posterized and stuff?

Thanks




*OK, only one so far (Absolutely MAD) but I'm buying the Playboy collections too.
First of all, I don't recommend this device as a reader. If you want to read old magazines, then I think you should look at a sub-laptop like the eee701 or the MobilePro 900c. One is new and not that expensive, the other is old and cheap.

It's late for me. I'll answer your questions tomorrow.
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