[YYZscientist]

Hi all,

I'm considering getting a Jetbook, but not for reading books, rather to always have my collection of scholarly journal articles (as my username implies, I'm a scientist) at hand and to be able to peruse them while out and about. These are all in PDF format (directly from the publisher typically, though some are scanned versions of paper from old journals). Generally, they are all formated for 8.5x11" paper and can contain several images (generally graphs, tables, rarely photos) and equations. However, these are not books -- they are quite short, often 3-5 pages; sometimes in rare occasions 10-15.

I was wondering how bad the performance of the Jetbook would be for these types of files. I know it's a device that's not ideal for 8.5x11" formatted files and that there has been a few mentions of PDF files being quite slow. The question is how bad is it, for this particular type of material. This is not meant for constant reading, but very casual perusal, look-up, etc.

Would anyone with a Jetbook be willing to do a little test for me and report back here? For those brave and generous souls, I've attached two sample PDF files to test. One is a short article (typical of most I'll have), and the other is longer with a lot of images (worst case scenario). Ideally, it would be nice if you could report back with the time to load each file, the performance scrolling around a page, the lag to load second page, etc., and any other impressions you have. Even a photo or video to show how it looks -- though that may be asking too much!

Finally, I'm curious if you can use the Jetbook's "Find" feature with these files. These are PDF files with the OCR text data built-in and I can do searches for words in the PDF readers on my PC.

Thanks in advance! And a big "cheers" to this great community board. It's been very useful in narrowing down which reader I might want to get.