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Old 02-04-2010, 08:20 AM   #571
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Now why did Irex take out the PDF zoom function?????
Your guess is as good as mine.
One can only speculate it was done to discriminate the DR800 from its bigger brother,
which was in my view, to put it mildly, a pretty unwise decision.
Without the zoom function, you cannot really use all kinds of pdfs.
Which means to me, it is more usefull for reading easily scalable formats like EPUB only.
But then again, you do not need 8" and hence no need to pay the markup in comparision to the 6" devices.

The iREX seems to forget it is not them who decide, what features the "consumer" version (using the description coined by Shaggy) should contain, but the consumers and the market.
As far as PDF handling abilities of the Pocketbook are concerned, they are way more advanced in comparison to DR800 and still they do not position their products as professional devices.

The build quality of the DR800 seems to be better, though.

PS: mgmueller, thanks for your review. It was very informative and useful.
Weiter so.

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