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Originally Posted by MrPLD
Anyone actually got their hands on one of these yet? I'd love to know if you can use it with an external keyboard and some sort of small word processor  |
Hi, I am lucky enough to have one of these (the US version). I am very impressed with it. Great for proof reading as the annotation functions are excellent. I have been reading for 7 hours in the sun. Try doing that on an iPad. I was also able write out a few pages of maths without problem too. There are a few things i would add on my wish list for a software update such as adding the option to maintain the page controls, orientation and zoom for individual documents. However this is minor for me as usually only read A4 formatted journal articles anyway so it's fine. I have opened a few books and they display nicely but I would also like to see the option of a 2 page display (currently only 1,4 or 9). The browser is pretty good too, slow as they always seem to be on readers (why is that exactly? I think it must be CPU limited rather than bandwidth limited - it's hard to benchmark the CPU but it can handle complex pdf documents well even with large figures) anyway it works well on mobile sites, I have bookmarked the mobile dropbox site and it logs in automatically no problem allowing pdf download (only) from there quite rapidly. I have not used the network drive sync function yet but will do when i get some time and will probably install dropbox on a network drive so i can get automatic syncing with dropbox. e.g. using this approach might work (
https://gist.github.com/pavank/2961448).
So brief summary, the interface is nice, you really can read and write for hours without eye strain. The pdf search is really nice as it's like you have searched and printed with the search highlighting which makes it very easy to find things. The handwriting is great but I don't own a tablet so can't compare, but I'm impressed, it's certainly good enough for me. It feels about the same weight as my iPhone! It really is a pleasure to use (for me) as I have to read and write a lot of technical documents. I'm not sure what else to say, but I'll check back in and do my best to answer any questions.