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MLDaeni · 12-23-2009, 05:19 AM

My Pocketbook 301+ arrived yesterday and just wanted to say what a wonderful device it is. Thanks everybody that answered my questions in the other thread (about PDF rendering).

For the prospective people, here are my first comments:

Delivered in three working days from Germany. my-ebook-read.de: their website is 100% german, but I did well with Google translate.

How does it feel?
- Great built, looks sturdy and solid
- Much lighter than the Sony PRS600
- Wonderful non glossy screen, again, compared to PRS600
- Very fast (as fast as PRS600)

They got the PDF almost perfect for this size of the device:
- Autocrop margins and zoom work as expected
- Did not crush on me yet for quite complex documents with tables, layout and equations!
- Loaded some huge PDFs (~100MB) and they worked reasonably fast (2-3 seconds to load and less than 1s for turn page)
- DejaVu viewer is just great (fast and autocrop margins works)

ePub: nothing to say, they worked OK for me.

Downsides:
- Audio jack and USB connector is covered by a plastic protection that might break in time.
- DOC and RTF did not work for me (they use antiword to extract the text?). DOC: displayed only the first page, and RTF: messed up all the page format. After printing to PDF, everything was OK. Is there something I missed or I have to prepare the files somehow, before putting them to the device?

Two small questions:
1. I hear there are two PDF viewers (Poppler/Xpdf and Adobe), but I could not find a way to switch them in the menus. I must be missing something, but what?
2. When in 2-column mode (PDF viewer) is there any way to also crop document margins (or at least to center the column on the screen)? As is it now, a part of the zoomed column is out of the screen and I have to constantly shift the view left right to read, which is inconvenient. Again, I have the device for only 1 day, so I probably miss the evidence.

All in all: I am very satisfied with this reader (I will keep it), more specially with non glossy screen and with the PDF and DejaVu viewers.

12-23-2009, 05:19 AM	#1
MLDaeni Member Posts: 19 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2009 Device: Pocketbook 301+	PB 301+: my first impressions My Pocketbook 301+ arrived yesterday and just wanted to say what a wonderful device it is. Thanks everybody that answered my questions in the other thread (about PDF rendering). For the prospective people, here are my first comments: Delivered in three working days from Germany. my-ebook-read.de: their website is 100% german, but I did well with Google translate. How does it feel? - Great built, looks sturdy and solid - Much lighter than the Sony PRS600 - Wonderful non glossy screen, again, compared to PRS600 - Very fast (as fast as PRS600) They got the PDF almost perfect for this size of the device: - Autocrop margins and zoom work as expected - Did not crush on me yet for quite complex documents with tables, layout and equations! - Loaded some huge PDFs (~100MB) and they worked reasonably fast (2-3 seconds to load and less than 1s for turn page) - DejaVu viewer is just great (fast and autocrop margins works) ePub: nothing to say, they worked OK for me. Downsides: - Audio jack and USB connector is covered by a plastic protection that might break in time. - DOC and RTF did not work for me (they use antiword to extract the text?). DOC: displayed only the first page, and RTF: messed up all the page format. After printing to PDF, everything was OK. Is there something I missed or I have to prepare the files somehow, before putting them to the device? Two small questions: 1. I hear there are two PDF viewers (Poppler/Xpdf and Adobe), but I could not find a way to switch them in the menus. I must be missing something, but what? 2. When in 2-column mode (PDF viewer) is there any way to also crop document margins (or at least to center the column on the screen)? As is it now, a part of the zoomed column is out of the screen and I have to constantly shift the view left right to read, which is inconvenient. Again, I have the device for only 1 day, so I probably miss the evidence. All in all: I am very satisfied with this reader (I will keep it), more specially with non glossy screen and with the PDF and DejaVu viewers.