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Originally Posted by R2D2
Did nobody elese notice the littel fact, that it will not be possible to zoom PDF documents?
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You can do a 90° rotation on PDFs and view sections of each page at a time -- that should give, what about 2X zoom?
Of course, if you have control of the PDF
creation, you can make the pages the size of the screen in the first place. And there's the cropping trick that's been discussed at length in the iLiad forum which should help some too.
@KNatoli -- since Sony wants you to buy books from their Connect store, I'm pretty sure that deals with iTunes aren't real high on their agenda at the moment -- besides, like you said: "who wants to sell themselves to Steve Jobs"?
Interesting bit here, I've seen some small indications that they
may explore MacPuter support for the Connect software in the future. Not something to base a decision on, but it's a sign that they seem to be interested in playing better with others.
As to notation/highlighting -- the Sony Reader, as it stands today, doesn't have any entry methods supported (no stylus/keyboard or such), so there isn't any built in way to make notes/highlights, as several have noted already. But it does have a (mini) USB jack (also mentioned by others), and it does run an open source OS, and they indicated a somewhat favorable view of hacking their
Readers (at least) here. I've also seen some indications that they're looking at perhaps releasing some sort of SDK, but nothing reliable yet. Who knows what we mere users might get up to once the devices are in our hot little hands?
As Laurens said, there's
definitely no native HTML support, that's been known for a good while now. The Connect store must be converting their RSS feeds to a supported format (BBeB, maybe). And it's been expressly said, both above an elsewhere, that content
won't expire, so you should be okay keeping whatever you want to keep on your Reader for as long as you want to keep it. (yippee!)
All in all I'd say it looks like they've learned some things from the Librie' experience.