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Originally Posted by nekokami
Interesting. The Sony Reader doesn't seem like the best tool for academic reading, but then again, I don't see iRex donating 100 units to Penn State.  I wonder if they'd be interested in my paper on reading and annotating electronic texts? |
(I'm an "academic reader" myself, with a library of 700+ books and counting)
While i absolutely *love* the fact that i can take pretty much every book I want with me, as well as carrying lots of secondary literature without feeling the extra weight, I have to say that it's not at the stage yet where it can replace paper books (unless you've got 2-3 :P)..
- Fairly sluggish opening times (and rendering speed of text-only PDFs) keep me from constantly switching between books.
- The impossibility to do text searches/quickly look up footnotes/flip around through the pages (when they're in the back of the book; it would be nice if those footnotes were links to the relevant footnote in the index, but i guess that will have to wait until it's implemented in the PDF standard).
- Very limited bookmark support (the alternate iPDF viewer works well enough, but it really needs to support "normal" PDF bookmarks.), and possibly a GUI window that shows the bookmarks/index
While most of the above things are fairly easily fixed with CPU speed upgrades, these things really need to be addressed in some way before it can be called a "mature" product for reading, i'd say..