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Originally Posted by LucyOne
I can read PDFs on my Pocketbook, it even has reflow and handles big files which make the Kindle crash. If a device offers the function to read a specific format, it shouldn't be as unreliable.
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Like Harry said, it's the complexity. And let me expand a bit, as I usually read PDFs.
I mainly read computer or SQL books. Those have tons of graphics. I tried to use the Kindle DX and most recent Kindle generations for that, and it's too slow or crashes on me. On the other hand, my iPad works beautifully. I can move back and forth and see next page without "excruciating pain" of several seconds waiting for a rendering of the next page. And let's not forget the size of most eink devices, which on most cases, it's too small for PDFs.
It's doable, of course, but it will depend of the PDF and eink software , and with so many tablets out there, I don't see the reason to use eink. Unless it's for outdoor usage or to read sequential and pure fonts , not graphic books like novels.
For years, I waited for the successor of the Kindle DXG, but I think that Amazon realized that tablets will probably domain the 10 inches market , so they pretty much abandoned any eink innovation on that area.