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Originally Posted by incumbent
I think I understand what you're saying here, but I find it amusing that the software to read PDFs is "shoddy" but adding a bunch of features to it wouldn't impact the already poor performance? My skepticism isn't entirely unreasonable is it?
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*Edit: Terrible analogy below as the systems are not entirely separate, but rest assured that it is not slow because of the limitations of hardware, as the pocketbook is using the same software base(Adobe's SDK) with a lesser processor and still manages to do most of the above.
<strikethrough>Nope, not unreasonable, but for the sake of simplicity, imagine you get a great car. Great ride, good mileage, and the radio sounds great but there is no cd on it. We are just asking for a new head unit that -also- has a cd. The car can take whatever they throw in there, and as a radio will not make a car run any slower, the radio (in this case the pdf engine) is not going to make the Aura any slower either, and who knows, maybe they'll even improve the wiring while they are at it.
The point is that it is a mostly separate entity and will not hog resources away from anything else. As demonstrated by KOReader, the device is very capable of running the code, there are many posts noting how even the epub reading is faster.</strikethrough>