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Originally Posted by Floeee
ok scribbling isnt that important and i really want an eInk device and not a tablet pc, because im reading most time
but at 50% of my reading time, i will read magazines like i showed before and they are taller than an A4 page, so im feared that i have to zoom all the time on the iliad an thats why im that into the speed or just even thinking about getting the DR, where some people said that i havent to zoom to read such a document
and if i have to use calibre, the hole wifi app would be senseless, because i have to use a computer again, i really want to do that without
do you use the wifi in anyway?
edit: i want to thank you again for your great work in this forum!!!!
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I'm not using WiFi at all (anymore. Did use it in the beginning for firmware updates). Some guys in this forum use it, to upload eBooks from their PCs to their reader. I simply have all my books with me on my UMPC and most of the readers have plenty of room via SD cards.
But check out the comic application from the iLiad forum. The author did explain, how to link to other sources. And there was another script, for downloading a daily newspaper automatically. Your demand more or less seems the same.
As the display of 1000S is about 50% bigger than the iLiad display, it's less likely having to zoom of course.
But as I said in my examples: For A4 magazines ("Spiegel" in my case, your example did seem similar) you don't have to zoom very often. For example, you could rotate to landscape view and simply read the page in 2 steps, upper half and lower half.
For newspapers ("Süddeutsche Zeitung" in my example), the original format simply is too huge, to fit on a 6"
[edit: iLiad is 8.1" not 6"] display.
But you always should consider, reformatting your source files. If you print them onto A4 or even A5, it works perfectly.
And again, it depends on your reading habits. If it's about the text's information and not about the layout, you can convert to another format. Mobipocket .prc for example on iLiad will reflow the text accordingly without any zoom at all.
If the layout has to remain intact or if you can't convert/modify your source files, simulate on your PC whether it's acceptable.
Concerning "modifying/converting": You can strip most of the formats from DRM (with the exception of .tpz on Kindle and .lrx on Sony) and convert to other formats.
Or you can take screenshots, for example of Zinio files, and reformat these as well. Usually, you'll find workarounds for reading on a 6" unit very comfortably.