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Originally Posted by bbusybookworm
Hi Steve and welcome.
Hope you enjoy it here.
As for PDF Performance, it really depends on what kind of PDF you have.
If it is mainly text, the Sony does a very nice job as it automaticly reflows the text so make it easier to read.
On the other hand if the PDF's are complex, multi columnar, with a lot of Images, other components, the Cybook Gen 3 will probably do a better job as it displays the Page as it is in the PDF, and allows tiy to zoom in and out to see details when you wnat to.
For most manuals, where there are a lot of diagrams and such, or code samples, I figure that the Gen3 will do a better job.
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Unfortunately zooming it is not very easy if you have to do it to read an entire document. As a matter of course the Cybook zoom really isn't up to the task as it is not an arbitrary level and doesn't support panning so far as I know. The real issue is that a PDF that is page oriented on a letter or A4 sized piece of paper will not scale well to any 6" device. If you display the full page (or even half a page) the text is too small to read. The Sony solution works by abandoning the page layout and showing the text at full size. If you need to preserve the page layout you need a different device than any of the 6" devices. The iLiad at 8.1" does a good job of showing the page in landscape mode 1/2 page at a time. If you need the full page shown at once then the newer iRex Digital Reader at 10.2" can do the job. The data is still shrunk from A4 but you can make it out if you crop the margins off.
Dale