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Originally Posted by WilliamG
I have another question for the tech-heads here.
If I wanted to read PDFs on the device, how would that work? I understand that 8.5x11-formatted PDFs will be, for all intents and purposes, unreadable on the Reader. Will there be any software for converting the PDFs to a Reader-readable state?
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Actually it depends on the PDF. I wrote a Librie tool that converts PDF's into BBeB "image files" e.g. each page is a 800x600 JPEG of the PDF page. With the right font size in the original they were quite viewable on the Librie. If it was a science journal document in 8pt type: no way. Nikon D70 user manual: works.
I'd also take PDF's rotate them and then crop each page into two pages and place them into a BBeB file. That worked MUCH better for a larger range of PDF's (and is the same concept as Sony's rotate trick.)
The major limitation to this line of exploration was that BBeB files larger than 15MB (about 150 pages) tended to crash the Librie. So I spent most of my time on the re-flow path where 15MB gave you a tremendous number of pages.
Now that Sony has a viewer for PDF, and it can rotate and crop pages, I expect people will be pleasantly surprised (especially if Sony auto-crops the white margins).