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Old 04-27-2009, 11:49 AM   #54
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Originally Posted by Daithi View Post
I want an ereader that can display a full page PDF.

It's great having an ereader that can display the text of a novel, but I would like something that can display PDFs of full sized pages. Some books just can't be appreciated on the same level without things like the illustrations. For example, a book like Alice in Wonderland is simply far better as a PDF than as reflowing text. Even when the illustrations are included in the ebook the PDF version would still be far better. In the PDF version the text flows around the images that are in the book, and in one section of Alice in Wonderland the text is written in such a way that it looks like a mouse's tail. It curves around the page and it uses a font that gets smaller and smaller. Ereaders like the Kindle can try imitating this mouse tail effect but they do a poor job of duplicating it without displaying the text as an image.
Nothing that can't be done with current readers:

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Through the Looking Glass
Sylvie and Bruno

It's only a matter of creating the PDFs with smaller page size (A4 size is not the best for reading books, anyway).
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