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Originally Posted by sean42
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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Ahh, sorry for the confusion on this point. I was mostly replying to DrPrince's post suggesting a Kindle for the job. I agree with you that the 9.7" screen is fine for most docs.
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Originally Posted by sean42
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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Speed. I'm comparing three things: the speed with which I can flick through a real book, my experience with my own ereaders (Kindle and Kobo Glo) and my experience with my own Android tablets (ASUS TF101 and Nexus 7).
There's never going to be anything as convenient or quick as flicking through the pages of a book, but in terms of speed of navigation, Android tablets outperform ereaders by an order of magnitude. For me, there's no comparison.
To be fair, I haven't even seen the Onyx other than on YouTube vids.
This is where Internet purchases fail for me. Before I'd consider buying one of these, I'd want to try it with a textbook.
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Originally Posted by sean42
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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They do look good on paper. But, it's too expensive a purchase to make without something a bit more concrete than mixed reviews. I know a dual or quad core Android tablet will perform well with pretty much any pdf I can throw at it. This isn't the case with eink readers yet because of the hardware spec and I simply can't afford to take such a gamble with new tech when there's something already out there far cheaper that's proven.
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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.
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I take your point that for some people reading from an LCD or similar screen is hard on the eyes. In the case of textbooks, I rarely spend more than an hour at at time reading them, so it's not that much of a problem for me.
I still haven't seen an eink reader that compares to Android in speed of rendering, navigation and screen refresh rate. I could perhaps live with the refresh rate if the rest of the spec was higher.
I'll keep watching the new readers in the hope that someone makes something fast and reliable enough
