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minck · 07-30-2014, 07:28 PM

About 90% of my books and articles are in pdf or djvu format, black and white, pics not important (mostly academic books, journals ... footnotes here are very important). Reading often requires scrolling to the page where the footnotes are, and then back. Also, there is a lot of reference type reading - i.e., looking little things up here and there ... not just reading the same book page after page.

I would also like to do some very very basic word processing - think Word Pad or Gedit.

I will be using at work, 10 hour shifts, no electricity.

I am very interested in the Onyx T68 - I like the idea of black and white screen, and saving electricity on the screen. But does this sound like a good idea for this application? It seems most here are using them to read epubs - i.e., documents in text format, whereas most pdf's I have are scanned and are images.

Otherwise - what kind of device should I get? I like the idea of an android tablet. Length of battery charge is important, I don't want it konking out after a couple of hours.

Thank you!

07-30-2014, 07:28 PM	#1
minck Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2014 Device: none	Reader for pdf's and simple wordprocessing? About 90% of my books and articles are in pdf or djvu format, black and white, pics not important (mostly academic books, journals ... footnotes here are very important). Reading often requires scrolling to the page where the footnotes are, and then back. Also, there is a lot of reference type reading - i.e., looking little things up here and there ... not just reading the same book page after page. I would also like to do some very very basic word processing - think Word Pad or Gedit. I will be using at work, 10 hour shifts, no electricity. I am very interested in the Onyx T68 - I like the idea of black and white screen, and saving electricity on the screen. But does this sound like a good idea for this application? It seems most here are using them to read epubs - i.e., documents in text format, whereas most pdf's I have are scanned and are images. Otherwise - what kind of device should I get? I like the idea of an android tablet. Length of battery charge is important, I don't want it konking out after a couple of hours. Thank you!