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Old 05-03-2009, 01:44 AM   #6
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Curious OP,

Have you considered a netbook? For $250, you can get to view pdf's in color with a 1.6 ghz intel atom, wifi, 160 gb hd, BT, and either XP or Liniux. Free is the Adobe reader you can download from Acrobat.

I opted for the PRS-700 myself, but I gave up a lot for ultimate portability. The 700 renders very slowly. Zoom settings are not retained from page to page, and it is slow on high resolution pdfs with a lot of images.

If I were you, I'd wait for a touch screen netbook....coming soon.

I transfer pdfs directly to an 8gb SDHC card. I find going thru the Sony via usb cable a bit slow.

(I just realized what a Q1 was. Why do you want a PRS700 when you've got that thing? With this in mind, would you please elaborate?)
Thanks a lot for advice, but I actually have a tablet PC (HP Pavilion tx2500) and UMPC (Samsung q1 ultra), which I use for for reading PDFs. Both are pretty good and I do not think I need another computer. Yet I was considering a dedicated device with long battery life, and without LCD screen. What I need to know now is the answers to my questions
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