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Just a note from a rank amateur here.
It would appear, from Shaggy and other threads this week, that the Irex 800 is delayed and they are "possibly" putting Adobe based viewers in those systems. As Saikan noted, the Irex screens are the most accommodating to the PDF format.
I recently am trying, (my 30 day window) with the Kindle DX and the PDF issue is still tough. I am probably like a lot of consumers who don't want to take the time to do a number of conversions to rasterize pdf docs to format smaller screens.
It would appear to me, that the eReader industry is trying to respond to the PDF demand out there. That would make sense. Books are great, but there is a huge market of buyers I would think that want to have additional docs viewed on the units without time or money. On a Mac or PC, I now simply drag a PDF to the documents folder on the DX and avoid any email fees.
The industry response, up to now, appears to be larger screens, such as the 1000, to respond to the native PDF imports. Particularly in landscape mode. The Kindle does it ok, and landscape mode is close, but flexibility is not there. I would imagine the 1000 in this regard is better.
My point is, that the industry appears to be making a general hardware response, (screen size), to the PDF paradigm. If, indeed, Irex is the first with the Adobe proprietary viewer, then it will be a significant game changer for a short amount of time. I am assuming zoom features similar to acrobat and other adobe proprietary tools in a scaled down format. Huge if true.....at a DR1000 price point right now, that value added dimension would be the only way I would try.
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