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wallcraft · 04-13-2010, 09:03 PM

The E-book Reader Matrix has a row for PDF Capabilities. As you can see, the PRS-300 has only "basic" PDF support. Probably the best is PocketBook (360° or 301+) but these only have 4 grey scales (in hardware), the EZ Reader's (Hanlin) are also ok for PDFs and the Pocket Pro has 8 and the forthcoming EZ Reader Plus (Hanlin V3+) has 16 grey scales. I guess I would go with the EZ Reader Plus, for its good balance between features and price. Note that a 5" or 6" EInk screen isn't optimal for PDFs (unless they are explicitly formatted for a small page size), but the larger screen devices are very expensive.

04-13-2010, 09:03 PM	#2
wallcraft reader Posts: 6,977 Karma: 5183568 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mississippi, USA Device: Kindle 3, Kobo Glo HD	The E-book Reader Matrix has a row for PDF Capabilities. As you can see, the PRS-300 has only "basic" PDF support. Probably the best is PocketBook (360° or 301+) but these only have 4 grey scales (in hardware), the EZ Reader's (Hanlin) are also ok for PDFs and the Pocket Pro has 8 and the forthcoming EZ Reader Plus (Hanlin V3+) has 16 grey scales. I guess I would go with the EZ Reader Plus, for its good balance between features and price. Note that a 5" or 6" EInk screen isn't optimal for PDFs (unless they are explicitly formatted for a small page size), but the larger screen devices are very expensive.