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Old 05-04-2009, 02:45 AM   #7
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I'm not sure why people who have it bought it got it, but I know why I wouldn't consider it: touch input. The presence of touch input rules out a device from my buying list because I have had lots of touch devices and they always receive erroneous commands whenever I accidentally touch them, plus the screens get dirty from my fingers all the time. So unless I can disable touch input, the presence of touch would make it a no-no for me.

iRex has the same model without touch though, it's called 1000 rather than 1000S, but it looks like there isn't availability. 1000 is within my considerations when thinking of an A4-sized reader that I need for reading PDF scientific papers, albeit I would probably prefer to wait for Jinke V9 (but it seems to get delayed a lot).

Scientific papers are notoriously difficult to read on small screens because of footnotes, small print, and columned text. So you either have to convert the PDF to something else, read it on A4, or not read it at all (except if you want to go blind!)

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