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scanned books
I received my Iliad and am now able to answer my own question.
The display size is about 4.8 x 6.8 inches but the bottom 0.9 inch is
used by the pdf display program leaving the useful display size approximately
4.8 x 5.9 inches. Scanned book pages smaller than 4.8 x 5.9 inches look
very good - gray scale images are handled well - color is converted to
gray scale - all very easy to read - pages are scaled to fit either the width
or the height of the display - nicely visible outdoors in bright sunshine.
As an example I scanned in Quiller Couch's Oxford Book of English Verse -
the 1918 edition which is out of copyright in the USA. It's 1095 pages long -
1084 numbered pages plus 11 pages of introduction, etc. The pages are
about 4 x 6.5 inches - scanned to pages of 4.04 x 6.39 inches at 600 dpi
produced a 35 MB file - The pages had quite a bit of white space at the
bottom and some at the top so I changes the margins to produce pages
4.04 x 5.60 inches. I also made a smaller version with adobe acrobat, which
is I believe done by reducing the resolution to 300 dpi, that gave a 19 MB
file. On the Iliad the pages are slightly larger than the original and very
readable, both the 600 dpi and 300 dpi version. One drawback - loading
from a USB stick takes 35 seconds for the smaller file and 50 seconds for
the larger file and page turns of 7 to 8 seconds.
At the moment my Iliad refuses to charge - only works when it is plugged in -
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