[alrumich]

I wonder if somebody could help me here. I am a grad student and want to get some digital reader for my readings. The problem is that most of my stuff is in scanned PDFs (i.e. a picture with OCRed text beneath it; or just picture, in case when the text cannot be OCRed). As far as I can understand the best option for this kind of PDFs is iRex readers, but they are way too expensive and iLiad Book Edition, which I considered, is out of stock everywhere. PRS-700 is said to have a native support for PDFs as well, plus touch screen for navigation, search and annotation. I have read tons of reviews of these devices but could not really find a definite answer to my question concerning PRS-700, so I wonder if anyone could do me a favor and test the attached file on their readers and post some pictures of the outcome. I do realize that most likely PRS-700 is to be used in the landscape mode, which is fine with me (I have been using Q1 Ultra for reading PDFs; it is pretty good for this purpose BTW).

What I need to know is whether the text is:
[1] readable, and
[2] can be searched and
[3] annotated.

Thanks a lot in advance,
Maxim

Addendum: I tried to check it myself in one of Borders, but it turned out that I cannot just stick an SDcard into a reader and open a PDF file; one needs a computer and Sony software to transfer PDFs to an SDcard via the Reader [frustrated...]