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Originally Posted by cjp
Hello from St. Louis, Missouri!
I tried to purchase the iRex 1000S from the US retailer, eReader Outfitters, just yesterday, which was to have been released this past week. However, they are telling me that the shipment from iRex has been delayed because they (iRex) are working out a few 'bugs' with the new DR1000S.
Should I be concerned about buying it as soon as it arrives? (I'm a doctoral student, not $$$$ rich, and so to invest this much cash must be a sound decision. I can either A) condier the DR 1000S a good deal if I can put all the hundreds of readings and PDF journals on it and not lug around the stacks of papers I must read daily,
or B) ...choose another product. But which one? I've searched, and although Readers are great for leisure,(Kindle, Sony, even iLiad) I need something to primarily read (easily) PDF full size (8.5 x 11") pages.
Any advice is welcome!
CJP
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I too am trying to a be a phd student (just don't quite feel like it) and I am with an iLiad. Also I have this issue of wanting to read a lot of PDFs you download with your university account from journals.
The academic market is IMHO quite a reasonable big market with premium paying costumers which isn't tabbed at all. Reading PDFs on the iLiad still just isn't quite as comfortable as reading papers. So I'm still printing out papers.
One solution would be that journals would provide their data in other flowable formats as well, so you could view it comfortable on a handy mobiledevice without any tricks. To some degree it feels brain dead as making columns on a A4 paper, because smaller width aspect text is easier to read, but on the same time having problems with a device just wider enough to view a column, because they are designed side by side. However I expect journals to be the slowest to adept to anything, so hoping for a solution from this side is quite futile.
Another issue, as academic you often do a lot of skimming, that is either quickly skim through a paper if it is relevant to you at all, or writing a little paper is often actually to 90% rearranging of existing texts for a new aspect. And with this I often skim through my collected literature stack, jumping forth and back and between articles all the time. And the eReader devices are yet just for me a little to slow (page turning, swtiching articles, putting things side by side), giving me the feeling of slowing me down instead of making me more effective.
I happily use the iLIad however as premium notetaking device. As this gives me quite some order in my notes, while on paper I usually lose it sooner or later, or they get totally mixed up with little hope to get any order in it. Paradoxily enough when I'm using some of my iLiad notes to write a text, I do print them out. As I want to clutter my desk with all kind of notes so I can very quickly switch papers by moving my eye, so hoping to see some patterns, similarities or other comparisions between notes and other texts.