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Originally Posted by HarryT
Speaking purely from a personal perspective, PDF support is completely irrelevent to me. I use my Gen3 as a fiction reader and never read PDFs. I suspect, however, that the Gen3 ownership at present is rather "self-selecting" - it's so useless at the moment for PDF display, that nobody who needs to read PDF on it would have bought one. You might get a more "balanced" response asking outside this forum.
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Actually, I bought the Cybook partly for reading PDFs. The intention was to have some math/physics reference books on it (multifile HTML for the most part, when buying I knew it wasn't supported, but I have the impression that Bookeen is working on it?) and use it for reading research papers and lecture scripts, mostly PDFs. I have to say that it isn't all bad. While being relatively slow, PDFs are pretty readable when using flipped landscape orientation and "fit to widh"; that way, the navigation key is conveniently under my right thumb. (By the way, I just timed the largest PDF on the device, 21 MB- it takes about 17 seconds to load.) Yes, the characters are quite small, but so far I have yet to find a PDF document I couldn't at least relatively comfortably read.
So, PDF reflow would be great, but I think I could manage with just user-selectable zoom levels. Oh yeah, there seems to be an image embedding method which results in one page being defined as a single image- those don't seem to work, would be great if they did.
ePub is even less of a deal for me, what fiction I read on the Cybook I've so far been able to convert to Mobipocket with absolutely no problems.
Sorry if this is a little incoherent, I've been studying the whole day, and it's been far too warm...
Edit: Oh yeah, just remembered: Converting PDFs to Mobipocket is out, seems to screw up formulas, which are pretty much essential in physics texts
