I'm sorry, I used "gritty" for lack of a better word, I mean the actual text, the letters, aren't looking as sharp and clear as the iLiad's; I expected them to be smaller, but I don't understand why they lost sharpness. Using Firefox, before I zoom into the original size of your photo, the page on Sony seems to be "half there", so to speak; when I do zoom in, you can tell quite clearly that it's not being rendered as well. So why not, I wonder? The zoom function on the Firefox, for example, does that to pictures when it reduces them to fit the screen, I wonder if that's what the Sony is doing, and therefore one would need to make sure you were sizing the pdf's well before loading???
(btw, have fun with your toys, lucky you!)