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retro · 11-25-2009, 06:30 PM

I bought a Sony PRS300 a couple months ago for reading library books. But I have quite a few technical books and I remembered they all come with CDs with a ebook version of the book. I tried a few out on the 300 and I really like the result. Most of my technical books have screenshots and the 300 displays them very well. If I change the view to horizontal, it displays 1/2 a page at at time (there's a little icon at the bottom that shows which half you're on). I prefer vertical view with medium font size. The text just flows from page to page, but it only shows the text for graphics. I can change to the small font and the graphic shows up.

I love this ereader, and I got so excited, I've consolidated all my techincal books and used BeCypdfmetaedit to rename them to what I what to see on the reader. I have about 50 technical books now and am looking to get a 2nd reader to put them on, instead of mixing with my library books. They are considerably larger than a normal book. My 50 books equal 665mg and the 300 holds less than 500mg. I'm considering a 600 that has an SD card slot and the bigger screen might display graphics at medium font size. The only disadvantage is there is no search option, but I'm not sure if any ereader has that. I really like having 50lbs of books in a 5oz device though!

11-25-2009, 06:30 PM	#3
retro Groupie Posts: 195 Karma: 245 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: USA Device: Kobo Clara Blue PRS 350	I bought a Sony PRS300 a couple months ago for reading library books. But I have quite a few technical books and I remembered they all come with CDs with a ebook version of the book. I tried a few out on the 300 and I really like the result. Most of my technical books have screenshots and the 300 displays them very well. If I change the view to horizontal, it displays 1/2 a page at at time (there's a little icon at the bottom that shows which half you're on). I prefer vertical view with medium font size. The text just flows from page to page, but it only shows the text for graphics. I can change to the small font and the graphic shows up. I love this ereader, and I got so excited, I've consolidated all my techincal books and used BeCypdfmetaedit to rename them to what I what to see on the reader. I have about 50 technical books now and am looking to get a 2nd reader to put them on, instead of mixing with my library books. They are considerably larger than a normal book. My 50 books equal 665mg and the 300 holds less than 500mg. I'm considering a 600 that has an SD card slot and the bigger screen might display graphics at medium font size. The only disadvantage is there is no search option, but I'm not sure if any ereader has that. I really like having 50lbs of books in a 5oz device though!