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rjmatyi · 12-25-2008, 06:24 PM

Hi there,

I just turned on my new Sony PRS-700 today (the Xmas present that was the main item on my "really want it" list). So far so good, but I could use some input from this forum, so please feel free to respond.

While having a collection of e-books will be nice (obviously), a major reason for having the -700 is the ability to read PDF files. Some background: I am a university professor in the physical sciences -- and like every other professor I know, I have several hundred PDF reprints of articles downloaded from the journals that are relevant to my research. Also, and like many other faculty, I travel frequently, and how better to spend my time on (for instance) my upcoming 15-hour flight to Korea to go through the important papers in my electronic library? Hence the appeal of the -700: the ability to have all of this literature in a convenient and compact package that (unlike the -505) allows you to zoom into important passages for close scrutiny.

The problem is file organization: I have all of these electronic papers organized in the Research folder on my Windows XP hard drive, and it would be *real* convenient if a similar file structure could be imported onto the PRS-700. I've played with the Collections option, but I'm running into problems -- dragging and dropping groups of PDFs is not working (maybe I'm just screwing up....) Any thoughts or experience in this?

Thanks, and merry Christmas!

12-25-2008, 06:24 PM	#1
rjmatyi Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2008 Device: Sony PRS-700	New PRS-700 -- PDFs in Collections? Hi there, I just turned on my new Sony PRS-700 today (the Xmas present that was the main item on my "really want it" list). So far so good, but I could use some input from this forum, so please feel free to respond. While having a collection of e-books will be nice (obviously), a major reason for having the -700 is the ability to read PDF files. Some background: I am a university professor in the physical sciences -- and like every other professor I know, I have several hundred PDF reprints of articles downloaded from the journals that are relevant to my research. Also, and like many other faculty, I travel frequently, and how better to spend my time on (for instance) my upcoming 15-hour flight to Korea to go through the important papers in my electronic library? Hence the appeal of the -700: the ability to have all of this literature in a convenient and compact package that (unlike the -505) allows you to zoom into important passages for close scrutiny. The problem is file organization: I have all of these electronic papers organized in the Research folder on my Windows XP hard drive, and it would be real convenient if a similar file structure could be imported onto the PRS-700. I've played with the Collections option, but I'm running into problems -- dragging and dropping groups of PDFs is not working (maybe I'm just screwing up....) Any thoughts or experience in this? Thanks, and merry Christmas!