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Old 10-13-2008, 12:04 PM   #27
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Originally Posted by cjp View Post
Do you read any PDF's on your iLiad? (Academic journal PDFs).
If indeed the DR1000s battery life is merely ~3-5 hours to simply read - digital reading is all I really need - very little writing, then I am trying to determine that if iRex says this is "normal" then should I go with the iLiad?
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Yes, I read journal articles in PDF form on my iLiad frequently. It works well, though multi-column pages are still kind of annoying. I have good vision, so I usually read in portrait mode, zoom to eliminate margins, and use the "continuous" page advance. If the text is too small, I switch to landscape mode. You might want to try taking a journal page and photocopying it to different sizes, and looking at it through an A5 window cut in a piece of paper or cardboard, to get an idea of what the screen will look like.

I have the earlier model (before the larger battery was added) and I get 8-10 hours of note-taking per charge, or probably about 12 hours of reading with no stylus use.
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