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The potential to carry all my technical references with me was the main reason I bought an Iliad ... that and the prospect of being able to scribble on PDFS, because I'm a crossword fanatic, so I can save some trees by doing the crossword on-screen.
I just hope iRex puts some effort into making it as easy as possible to work like this. For example, it would be invaluable to be able to search in PDFs ... although, it's going to be slow unless they add some smarts to pre-index the text; there's something a developer could work on once we have an SDK.
The indexing could be done separately, of course and downloaded to the Iliad, which would make sense, since it would be a CPU-intensive task.
Of course, if they go with the pre-rendering of pages as I remember seeing mentioned somewhere here, they could also pre-index each book in the background (as an option settable for each book, perhaps).
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