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Originally Posted by DaleDe
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
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Well as harry mentioned, The new update has made PDF's more usable with much more control over the zoom leves and the ability to Pan. It also added the ability to handle larger files which sometimes crashed the reader in the past.
And my comparison was for 6'' device, specificely the Gen 3 and the Sony he asked about.
I do agree that none of the 6'' devices are going to be ideal for looking at PDF's , and the Larger screened Irex Illiad and Digital reader's offer a better option.
However if you don't want to carry around a larger reader, or PDF,s form a small part of what you want to read, the Sony, Gen3 and Bebook do offer an alternative.
One also has to take in cost into consideration, with the Irex devices being more then double the cost. Many (including me) balk at spending that much for devices that do at times seem a tad unfinished.