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Originally Posted by Hantra
Hard to say. I haven't been able to take the stomach punch for $30 to try a book out, since that's nearly 10% of a Kindle 2. I'm used to reading on my Dell Axim with Speed Reader Plus. I'm looking to graduate from that b/c there is not much non-DRM'd content out there that I can import to txt or HTML.
Plus I need to do some technical reading, and I'm not sure any books can be imported to iPhone with pictures and diagrams.
Any thoughts?
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If your concern is the viability of the iPhone as a reading device, you might want to check out Stanza from the App Store. There are a lot of free books available through it. Probably none are what you want, but they might help you evaluate how an iPhone
would be as a reader, in the event that Amazon opens its eBook store to it.
As far as putting tech documents on the iPhone is concerned, I don't know. I tried putting a complex subway map on the iPhone once. I decided to just stick the map in iPhoto and sync it as a photo, but the pictures all sync across with reduced resolution and I wasn't able to read any of the text on my map. If you go to a web URL with a very high-resolution photo, it will load the entire photo, and you can pinch-zoom it to your heart's content, but I don't know how to get this kind of functionality with files transferred to the phone via USB.