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Originally Posted by lalebarde
Definitely not. I have never read any post of anybody reading a lot and having tried e-link that go back to LCD, and I think I read several hundreads of posts the last two years on the topic.
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Well, I read an awful lot, and have been using eInk devices since 2006 (the Sony PRS-500), so I'm speaking from extensive personal experience when I say that excellent though eInk readers are for many tasks (they excel for reading fiction), they don't make good PDF readers. eInk devices have low-power, slow CPUs, which are just too slow for the task of rendering complex PDF pages. There's nothing worse than having to wait 10s for a page to be rendered (and it literally can take that long with a complex PDF).
Like you, I need to read a lot of academic PDFs, and it's personal experience that makes me say that an iPad is the best tool for the job. It's a case of using the right tool for the right job. eInk for fiction; iPad for PDF.
But at the end of the day it's your choice, of course. I'm sure you'll find your eInk reader useful for fiction, even if it proves problematic for PDFs.
There are an awful lot of other threads in this forum answering this same question; you may find it illuminating to peruse them.
I agree with Billi that the M92 is the best of the eInk devices for this task.