I have been lurking on this site for a while watching the proceedings relating to the iliad.
I am interested in getting one, mostly for work. Currently I carry around a number of company manuals in pdf form on my laptop computer. The problem is that I would like to have fast access to these manuals. With them residing on the laptop getting them out for reference is a hassle. Drag out the laptop, start it up, wait for it to boot, then select the appropriate pdf file, wait for acrobat to open, then open the pdf and go to the appropriate section/chapter by bookmark and then browse that chapter as required. When the laptop is not connected up to "Shore Power" it of course runs even more slowly in battery mode. All this takes relatively a lot of time. One of the things I like about the Palm devices is that you turn it on it is ready to run. Period. Unfortunately battery life is limited, and the screen is just too small, and there is not to my knowledge any decent pdf support for the Palm to facilitate the viewing of these rather large company manuals.
Reading the reviews and all the information I have been able to cull from the web it seems that the iliad might be a good alternative to keeping the documents on the laptop and even though the device startup is around 30 seconds it would seem that it is a lot faster than dealing with the laptop.
My questions about the iliad would be the following:
With pdf documents can you easily access all the bookmarks for navigating within the document?
Is the pdf "Search" function operable, or do you have to manually just go through the document?
Does the iliad have the capability of having a list of "Favorites" or "Recently Opened Documents" so that you can just easily jump to a frequently used reference?
I would also like to be able to download from the web graphical weather images. Is this a possible function? This would be an example of the weather site that I would like to get satellite images from:
Weather Is it possible to load a image file such as this:
Pacific Satellite Weather ?
I imagine that in the above case I could just connect to the web download that image to the laptop then either load it to memory device and then install it on the iliad. This would certainly be more cumbersome and it would be more convenient and advantageous to be able to access it directly using the iliad wireless capability, would that be a possibility?
Sorry if I have asked questions that might have already been addressed.
Thank you for you time and consideration Henrycat!