I am new to this forum so I might get inline quoting wrong.
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Originally Posted by leaston
Not for me. The screen is too small and performance not up to it.
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Just to put your post in perspective, what kind of screen sizes are you talking about. I have 9.7inch screens in mind. That should be large enough for standard books, and academic publications (typically A4 or Letter sized).
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Originally Posted by leaston
I'll give you a typcial example of what I need. I have a therapy textbook I use (hardback) which contains around 600 pages. It's a book I regularly flick through while using the index and I often read one or two paragraphs or sections in a page and move on to a different part of the book, cross referencing. Each section I read can be hundreds of pages apart.
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I definitely would want to cover this use case. What difficulties have you faced with jumping to a page using a slider or page number.
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Originally Posted by leaston
As things stand, eink readers aren't geared up to dealing with pdf's properly or well. The screens are wonderful to read novels with, but are generally far too small for textbooks and the hardware cannot cope with pdf navigation at anything like reasonable speeds. Reflow isn't even guaranteed if the pdf hasn't been created with all due diligence and doesn't work well on all readers even when it has.
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Have you tried the 9.7" Onyx Boox. Users dont seem to be terribly upset with its pdf capabilities. However stability seems to be a problem.
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Originally Posted by leaston
Yet, reading the same pdf on a 10" Android tablet is great.
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I get bleary eyed soon enough when reading from LCD's so this is sort of non-negotiable. From a technical perspective a Linux system should be more efficient than an Android system. Android would need more memory. OTOH Android with its larger community would have more apps. In a way Onyx's latest Android based 9.7" Ereader, might be the best of both worlds.
What mystifies me is that if you have 256 MB of RAM and a processor with a clock speed north of 800Mhz, how is that not enough to parse, uncompress and render pdf. I get it that the display hardware is slow, but that should only add a sub second delay in rendering the page that I want rendered.
In any case thanks for your reply.