I know more colleges and universities are going to e-textbooks, especially for their online courses. We NEED a reader for these because it can be hard to read all the time on a computer screen. Not all PDF textbooks support reflow, mine don't, and even if they did they have all sorts of separate boxes of information and charts that would not reflow because of formatting. And these aren't even technical books as such, but books for teacher prep classes.
So, there is a market opening up more and more, and iRex is ignoring it by not allowing zooming of PDFs. I might not get an 800, but if it doesn't get zoom I definitely will take it off my list of possibilities.
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