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Originally Posted by kaas
Actually, my Sony took ages to change Font sizes. It often froze when opening largish PDF files (about 5MB), and was slow to open books or repaginate them. Also no dictionary, which is a huge benefit if you read in different languages than your own.
While it is a nice device, it is also an aged device with a slow processor and -in my opinion- not enough ram. The build quality of the 505 clearly is superior to the pocketbook, as it has a metal body, but that wasn't really important fro me.
I had no issues at all adjusting to the smaller screen (especially as I have no margins on the pocketbook) and have not once regretted the change...
cheers,
kaas
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My experience of the 505 in entirely different -
Slow changing of fonts: only on LRFs, and only on those loaded through Calibre, and only on the first time I change to that font size. The EBL paginates LRFs for you, Calibre does not.
Changing fonts on Epubs is very quick, almost as quick as a page turn, because ePubs do not repaginate when changing font size.
I don't do PDFs - I don't think any e-ink reader is good for PDFs yet - they really need a larger screen size. Maybe the Que will solve this problem. The very few PDFs I have tried from Google opened OK, but couldn't be resized so were useless. Have not experienced the crashing issue you describe, but really don't have the experience with that.
Have not had books slow to open at all, and since I pretty much just use ePub, don't have to worry about repagination.
A dictionary would indeed be nice.
The ability to change fonts and margins on the fly would, too, be nice, but I do think you are overblowing the 505s 'problems.'
It's good that there are more readers coming onto the market, so that each person can find one that suits him/her. I'm sure you could find someone to eagerly take your 505 off your hands if you're not happy with it.