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Originally Posted by daffy4u
As for Kindle 1, it's serviceable in a pinch but not good for heavy surfing (you'll go insane). Mobile sites without a lot of images are better for the Kindle.
You do have 30 days to try out a Kindle (if you're in the U.S.) and run it though as many work environment simulations as you need.
How soon do you need to implement these readers?
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There's no mandate, it would be my own initiative, so there's no particular timeline. That's an excellent point about return policies (and not just the Kindle's), maybe I should take advantage of that. As for the web browsing, I'm not looking for FireFox-caliber browsing. In fact, I might be pointing it at URL's that I design myself, intentionally providing filtered or reader-friendly content.
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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
yes, the 700 zoom feature can zoom and pan ; [snip] this is good for images although a bit slow ; i don't think it would be comfortable for reading text.
as for generated content, what do you mean exactly ? i read a lot of "generated" content in the sense content i've transformed into an ebook myself (rss feeds, homemade ebooks...) and depending on the format it works perfectly well. epub is my format of choice and i've got really no problems as such to mention.
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Yes, that's a lot of what I mean. Other parts would include HTML pages, other PDF's, or DOC/TXT/RTF files. That's good to hear. Back to the pan & zoom...when you go from page to page, does it reset your zoom-level and positioning? E.g. if you had a document with large margins, and you zoomed in a bit and positioning it so that you effectively cropped the margin away (in terms of viewable area), would the reader retain that zoomlevel/positioning when you flipped pages?
Slightly funny story.. I made that trip to the Sony store today, taking an SD card with me (2 gigs). This is the card I store some website files on, and files to bring back and forth between home and office. To help test out the Sony readers, I threw some PDF files on there.. Including some PDF books I bought, an image-heavy PDF, and a PDF with equations and things that I probably won't need, but would like to see how it does.
At the store, a salesguy was practically napping by leaning on the eBook stand. I told him I was considering Sony readers, and was interested in their PDF support. He really didn't know anything about the PDF support, other than it existed. I asked him if I could try a card I brought with PDF's, and he said sure. So he took the card and wanted to put it in.
Nothing additional showed up on the Reader. We poked around the menu a few times, and he said he didn't even know how PDF's are supposed to work, or how they'd show up in the menus. So he took the card out, and I tried it in the 700. No dice there either. Then I was looking at the user guide on a separate 505 and he decided to try it again in the first 505. Sadly, he jammed the placeholder SD thing in and couldn't get it out. So he spent 2-3 minutes trying to get that out.
Then we tried it and no luck. Then he wanted to try again in the 700, and proceeded to jump through the settings, and formatted the internal memory (bye bye demo eBooks!) Of course, that didn't work! When I pointed out that he just erased the whole thing, he hastily tried putting the placeholder SD thing back in, and hoping they'd load off of that.
Ultimately, he shrugged it off. Not much he could do. He was a nice guy, and definitely made every effort to be helpful. While he can be blamed for a couple things, he
can't be blamed for not figuring out why my SD card couldn't be read. After I tried it in a laptop there (with permission) using a reader, it wouldn't mount, and I realized it was formatted to be readable on macs only (doh! forgot!)...so I was kind of tricky like that.
Anyway, it didn't turn out to be a very informative trip. I'll have to make another. The salesguy did say he greatly preferred the 505, calling the 700's screen a glarefest and blurry. I was actually a little surprised that at some angles, the 700 really looked good. Head-on didn't seem to be its strongest angle. In isolation, the 505's were lower-contrast than I remembered, but next to the 700 they were always higher contrast.