[cur3n4]

Hi,

Lonely Planet guides and the Eco Reader:

First of all, you have to be aware that some Lonely Planet pdfs have two pages per pdf page, while other ones have only one page.
Text flows when zooming in pages that don't have maps, but the lack of formatting might make some things hard to understand, so I avoid it most of the time.

1. Single page pdfs are OK in portrait mode (no zoom). You can read all the text with some difficulty, but it is certainly readable. Maps are much harder to read, and I certainly cannot distinguish some things.
In landscape mode, everything (including maps) is certainly very readable, and the pdf spans across multiple pages (most of the time...). I have found that the behavior in landscape mode is somehow erratic, sometimes the whole map fits in the page instead of spanning across multiple pages (anyone has had the same problem??). Going out to the main menu, rotating it back and things like that usually makes it behave properly again.

2. Two pages per pdf page are pretty much unusable, you have to transform them. I used Adobe Acrobat Pro to crop the pages into two separate pdfs, one with the even pages, and the other one withe the odd pages, and then I used Pdf Sam to merge both pdfs back into one.

Another issue is that pages that contain a city map or similar take around 10 seconds to display, so it is not certainly something that you want to check while walking around. Text pages take under one second.

Having said that, I love the Eco Reader. I am still taking it on holidays. But I will also take a notebook to be able to check stuff during the day.

Cheers (sorry but I have to go, I'll post some more info later about the Eco Reader)

Sergio