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orion2001 · 10-08-2009, 04:02 PM

Yup, the PRS-505 isn't great for A4/Letter sized PDFs...especially if they have a lot of embedded graphics, etc. Text reflow isn't perfect but it works decently for text only PDFs.

Page turns are actually decent. I loaded in your PDF and it still turned pages fairly quickly. Cropping whitespace and using a tool like SoPDF to split the pages into two also helped but even in landscape mode the font was a bit smaller than what would make for comfortable reading.

It definitely wouldn't be a great device for reading those kinds of PDFs. You would definitely need to look into devices with larger screens such as the Kindle DX or the Iliad.
On the other hand, if you format PDFs to the size of the PRS-505 screen, they work very well. In fact I am currently formatting a lot of my ebooks to PDFs as I like the enhanced typography and type-setting it enables.

10-08-2009, 04:02 PM	#4
orion2001 Groupie Posts: 162 Karma: 24658 Join Date: Sep 2009 Device: PRS-505	Yup, the PRS-505 isn't great for A4/Letter sized PDFs...especially if they have a lot of embedded graphics, etc. Text reflow isn't perfect but it works decently for text only PDFs. Page turns are actually decent. I loaded in your PDF and it still turned pages fairly quickly. Cropping whitespace and using a tool like SoPDF to split the pages into two also helped but even in landscape mode the font was a bit smaller than what would make for comfortable reading. It definitely wouldn't be a great device for reading those kinds of PDFs. You would definitely need to look into devices with larger screens such as the Kindle DX or the Iliad. On the other hand, if you format PDFs to the size of the PRS-505 screen, they work very well. In fact I am currently formatting a lot of my ebooks to PDFs as I like the enhanced typography and type-setting it enables.