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MLDaeni · 12-12-2009, 08:12 PM

Hi danwdoo, my story is very similar to yours! I've received my PRS600
three days ago, and although I think it is not a bad device, I returned it
today.

I wanted a reader for... well, to read books, mostly novels, classics,
philosophy and technical documents of size smaller that A5 (according to
other users testimony, I did not expect the A4 size to work on the device)

I did a lot of testing and the reasons of my decision 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 was 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.

I really wanted to like this device, but a reading device must not
compromise on its main function: the comfort of reading. If not for the
screen, I would have ended keeping the device.

I now think that a good PDF reader, must have a larger size, probably
8" or more. So I will wait for the IREX DR800SG, Plastic Logic and the
other larger devices to arrive next year.

12-12-2009, 08:12 PM	#19
MLDaeni Member Posts: 19 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2009 Device: Pocketbook 301+	Hi danwdoo, my story is very similar to yours! I've received my PRS600 three days ago, and although I think it is not a bad device, I returned it today. I wanted a reader for... well, to read books, mostly novels, classics, philosophy and technical documents of size smaller that A5 (according to other users testimony, I did not expect the A4 size to work on the device) I did a lot of testing and the reasons of my decision 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 was 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. I really wanted to like this device, but a reading device must not compromise on its main function: the comfort of reading. If not for the screen, I would have ended keeping the device. I now think that a good PDF reader, must have a larger size, probably 8" or more. So I will wait for the IREX DR800SG, Plastic Logic and the other larger devices to arrive next year.