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drk · 04-18-2010, 08:25 PM

Have you guys noticed that the PRS-900, in single page landscape mode (default zoom) wastes precious screen area with grey margins? And that in annotation mode, the annoying grey margins get even bigger?? WHY did you do this to me, SONY??

Is this utterly annoying, or is it just me??

I bought the PRS-900 exclusively for reading/annotating technical PDFs, mainly because of the larger screen. However with all that wastage the landscape mode may become comparable with the PRS-600..

You can still use the new option to eliminate white margins, and the 'zoom in' feature to eliminate the grey margins. However.. you cannot annotate in the zoomed state, and the zoom level itself is lost at every page turn.. sigh..

In summary, reading/annotating technical PDFs with small fonts, math symbols etc. turns out to be impractical on the PRS-900, IMHO.

Really hoping that a miracle firmware update would at least introduce a preserved zoom - not to mention my ultimate dream which is to be able to annotate in the zoomed state..

SONY I PROMISE I WILL BUY A DOZEN PRS-900s, DEPLOY THEM IN MY RESEARCH TEAM, AND ENCOURAGE ITS USE ACROSS THE WHOLE UNIVERSITY IF YOU FIX THESE ISSUES!!!

04-18-2010, 08:25 PM	#67
drk Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2010 Device: PRS-900	Have you guys noticed that the PRS-900, in single page landscape mode (default zoom) wastes precious screen area with grey margins? And that in annotation mode, the annoying grey margins get even bigger?? WHY did you do this to me, SONY?? Is this utterly annoying, or is it just me?? I bought the PRS-900 exclusively for reading/annotating technical PDFs, mainly because of the larger screen. However with all that wastage the landscape mode may become comparable with the PRS-600.. You can still use the new option to eliminate white margins, and the 'zoom in' feature to eliminate the grey margins. However.. you cannot annotate in the zoomed state, and the zoom level itself is lost at every page turn.. sigh.. In summary, reading/annotating technical PDFs with small fonts, math symbols etc. turns out to be impractical on the PRS-900, IMHO. Really hoping that a miracle firmware update would at least introduce a preserved zoom - not to mention my ultimate dream which is to be able to annotate in the zoomed state.. SONY I PROMISE I WILL BUY A DOZEN PRS-900s, DEPLOY THEM IN MY RESEARCH TEAM, AND ENCOURAGE ITS USE ACROSS THE WHOLE UNIVERSITY IF YOU FIX THESE ISSUES!!! Last edited by drk; 04-20-2010 at 05:58 PM.