MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - PRS-600 or Pocketbook 301 for PDFs?

MLDaeni · 12-12-2009, 07:51 PM

Hi Wallcraft, I did not follow the Pocketbook forums, but after some more
tests (I had my reader three days ago) I have to agree with your opinion.

Although PRS600 is not a bad device, I returned it today. The reasons are
as follows:
- The main reason: the screen. I really wanted this to be a non-issue, but
the glare and the reflections ended by getting in my way when reading.
It is my first device, but still, I needed a constant conscious effort to not
see the reflection of my face in the device, all this combined with a sort of
"fuzzy display" due probably to the "through the glass" effect induced by
the screen.
- Second: the PDF viewer do not have two important things: (1) automatic
crop margins and (2) persistent zoom (when switching to the next page).
Without these, each PDF must be prepared with special software like
Adobe Acrobat, pdfcrop, or sopdf, which is time consuming and does not
work as expected all the time. So PDF is pretty much broken, except for
text PDFs, which reflow quite well.

Like you, I think now a good PDF reader, must have a larger size, probably
8" or more.

12-12-2009, 07:51 PM	#4
MLDaeni Member Posts: 19 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2009 Device: Pocketbook 301+	Hi Wallcraft, I did not follow the Pocketbook forums, but after some more tests (I had my reader three days ago) I have to agree with your opinion. Although PRS600 is not a bad device, I returned it today. The reasons are as follows: - The main reason: the screen. I really wanted this to be a non-issue, but the glare and the reflections ended by getting in my way when reading. It is my first device, but still, I needed a constant conscious effort to not see the reflection of my face in the device, all this combined with a sort of "fuzzy display" due probably to the "through the glass" effect induced by the screen. - Second: the PDF viewer do not have two important things: (1) automatic crop margins and (2) persistent zoom (when switching to the next page). Without these, each PDF must be prepared with special software like Adobe Acrobat, pdfcrop, or sopdf, which is time consuming and does not work as expected all the time. So PDF is pretty much broken, except for text PDFs, which reflow quite well. Like you, I think now a good PDF reader, must have a larger size, probably 8" or more. Last edited by MLDaeni; 12-12-2009 at 07:53 PM.