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Old 08-04-2007, 05:09 PM   #32
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I don't promote the reader, nor do I dispell it. I've shown it to others, and those who liked to read thought it was great, those who doesn't don't find it interesting.
Let people decide for their own if they need one or not. It certainly won't be a hype thing where everyone wants one anyway.

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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
PDFRasterfarian takes a lot of processing power - it would be way too slow to run on the Reader's low-power, slow, CPU. Also - and please correct me if I'm wrong - but doesn't it need a certain amount of "manual" tweaking to give good results with a given PDF file? Could it be used as an automated tool which would work well on all PDF files?

Yes, PDFrasterfarian and PDFread takes tremendous CPU-power. I now have a Quad (that's 4 ) core CPU and still then it takes awhile to finish a book.
But yes and now for the manual tweaking. It's a one-time thing to get the setting you like and then it can be done all the time for all books.

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Originally Posted by Nate the great View Post
Okay, then why isn't it included in the Connect software?

Heck, why did we have to wait for independent developers to come out with all the conversion software? Why couldn't Sony have come up with them?

I, for one, only considered the Sony reader after I learned about the various formats I could convert from. I would not have bought the Reader otherwise.

P.S. Harry, I don't mean to snipe at you. It's just the irritation I feel with the software limitations Sony deliberately used to cripple a really nice piece of hardware.
Actually, there are NO gadgets I've ever bought that come with all of the best tools you'll ever need. My MP3-players don't have MP3-creating/conversion software. My camera's don't have a good (fast & easy) image viewer program, nor has it a good (featurefull) editing program.
And I'm glad they don't because in the end, it will be me who's paying for those extra programs.



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BTW. I just noticed that the connect site just added "popular titles" like DaVinci Code. This might attract the common readers.
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