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rlauzon · 10-16-2006, 05:55 PM

As I expected, PDF zoom and pan is nearly useless. Unless the eBook just has big margins, you are panning all over to read the text. Selecting the zoom area is more than a bit "hit or miss", but with a little practice, I should be able to select the area I want. The same goes for panning - no visual cue as to how much you are moving, but with a little practice, I can overcome that.

However, there's no visual cue for how much of the real page you are seeing - something may be off the top/bottom of the zoomed page, but you would have no idea that it's there.

For reading eBooks zoom and pan is useless. There may be some eBooks where zoom and pan come in handy, but I haven't seen them. All of my "too big for the iLiad" eBooks are still unreadable only now because I have to pan to get the whole page, or not zoom as much and the text is too small to read.

The landscape mode is nice. My issues of Tux Magazine are more readable. So that's a plus.

I did notice that the pages are rendering faster. So that's nice.

I tried the rename feature and that worked OK. A bit cumbersome, but I wouldn't use it often, so I don't care about that.

But now my pen sometimes doesn't work. It looks like it might be an internal switch issue (the iLiad doesn't know that the pen is out). I rarely use the pen.

I haven't tried the locking feature yet (I really don't care, and with my pen being the way it is, I'm afraid to try it for fear of not being able to unlock it).

I also notice that I have 2 black lines that run down the sides of the screen that weren't there before the upgrade. The true page size maybe? If so, I can make my eBook margins a little larger. 8-)

I can't tell for sure, but it seems that my HTML/Picture books look better - more clear. These are just HTML pages with one big JPG on it.

Handwriting recognition works nicely (which says alot seeing how bad my handwriting is).

I didn't see any features that broke. The HTML documents that I have that display the time on the iLiad and do a slideshow still work fine. Battery life seems very good (I'll give it a good test tomorrow).

So 2.7 seems to be a definite improvement over 2.6.1.

10-16-2006, 05:55 PM	#20
rlauzon Wizard Posts: 1,018 Karma: 67827 Join Date: Jan 2005 Device: PocketBook Era	As I expected, PDF zoom and pan is nearly useless. Unless the eBook just has big margins, you are panning all over to read the text. Selecting the zoom area is more than a bit "hit or miss", but with a little practice, I should be able to select the area I want. The same goes for panning - no visual cue as to how much you are moving, but with a little practice, I can overcome that. However, there's no visual cue for how much of the real page you are seeing - something may be off the top/bottom of the zoomed page, but you would have no idea that it's there. For reading eBooks zoom and pan is useless. There may be some eBooks where zoom and pan come in handy, but I haven't seen them. All of my "too big for the iLiad" eBooks are still unreadable only now because I have to pan to get the whole page, or not zoom as much and the text is too small to read. The landscape mode is nice. My issues of Tux Magazine are more readable. So that's a plus. I did notice that the pages are rendering faster. So that's nice. I tried the rename feature and that worked OK. A bit cumbersome, but I wouldn't use it often, so I don't care about that. But now my pen sometimes doesn't work. It looks like it might be an internal switch issue (the iLiad doesn't know that the pen is out). I rarely use the pen. I haven't tried the locking feature yet (I really don't care, and with my pen being the way it is, I'm afraid to try it for fear of not being able to unlock it). I also notice that I have 2 black lines that run down the sides of the screen that weren't there before the upgrade. The true page size maybe? If so, I can make my eBook margins a little larger. 8-) I can't tell for sure, but it seems that my HTML/Picture books look better - more clear. These are just HTML pages with one big JPG on it. Handwriting recognition works nicely (which says alot seeing how bad my handwriting is). I didn't see any features that broke. The HTML documents that I have that display the time on the iLiad and do a slideshow still work fine. Battery life seems very good (I'll give it a good test tomorrow). So 2.7 seems to be a definite improvement over 2.6.1.