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Originally Posted by benn600
I am wondering why standard 8.5x11 PDFs don't display well (or so I've heard). I get my reader in around 15 hours from now, so I can figure it out then, too...but the question is that since the resolution is quite high, it seems like it could show a complete page, just without the sharpness and everything would be tiny.
I have the iPaq HX4700 and it has a 480x640 4" screen. It can display incredibly small text...almost enough to show an entire page. The reader has 600x800 resolution if I'm not mistaken. Oh well, I guess I'll see soon enough.
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If you're comfortable reading PDF's on your PDA, then you shouldn't have a problem on the Reader once the PDF's are converted using one of the methods found in this forum; e.g., PDFRasterfarian or PDFRead. I've converted quite a few using the former, but have been too busy reading regular books to fiddle with PDF's of late. The programs tend to run several filters on the PDF's to make them more easily viewable on the Reader. You'll see when you get it, but might as well have a few test cases available so you can suit to your particular taste. It's the grey-scale thing that really mucks things up, your PDA does 64k color, where this does simple 4-shade greyscale (might not sound too impressive, but viewing photos on the Reader are sweet!).
If you haven't already, d/l BookDesigner and get familiar with it, that way you can format books to your taste and can convert from LIT, RTF, TXT, DOC, etc. to the more useful/native LRF format.
Edit: Forgot to mention about the page differences, the Reader screen is a tad smaller than a typical paperback, so even with margins shrunk, books tend to be 2-3x longer in length than their PB compatriates (most run over 1000 pages, where 300 pages are basically short-stories).