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Originally Posted by Daithi
An ebook that is built for displaying PDFs sounds like a pretty good idea. According to their website --
The zooming feature allows users to magnify the page size from 50% to 400%. and
In the reflow mode, users can read the text that has been automatically reorganized to fit the screen size and also control the font size via the menu. I like my Kindle, but I wished it had this kind of support for PDFs. |
The reflow, I think, is critical for this device to be a generic PDF reader. As eInk device, scrolling would be rather painful. The jetBook uses the Foxit PDF reader and it works fairly well, but the version on the Jetbook doesn't reflow. Even with the faster scrolling LCD provides, I wouldn't want to read books that way. Fortunately, there are tools available that make it easy to take HTML (which .lit and .mobi files can be converted into) and convert it into custom sized PDFs... but not every user is going to want to go to that trouble.
Still a device like this would be very nice for reading public domain books available on feedbooks and Manybooks.net (PG books might need some reformatting... which I have found isn't hard, but then again, I am a perl programmer and text processing is what Perl is really good at).
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Bill