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Originally Posted by garthoid
I brought along my sd card (call it my library) to see how they looked. The helpful and informed Chapters agent was thrilled at this because they had not yet had a chance to try SD cards out. My first mistake was bringing my main sd card with a lot of books on it because the Kobo "synch"s them. This took a long time. A long long time. What was it doing? Indexing? Cataloguing? Ordering concert tickets? Doing my laundry? The second time I popped the same card in only took seconds, so whatever it was doing it saved some information.
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You are creating a non-normal condition -- absorbing a library instead of one new book. As you point out, once "digested", the Kobo performed well the second time it "saw" the card. That tells me it actually performs well under "normal" conditions.
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Originally Posted by garthoid
The PDFs displayed but the deal breaker for me was that they did not resize well.
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Keep in mind this is 6" form factor device. PDFs created for trade paperback or A4 or 8-1/2 x 11 format are going to be "small" by definition. The great attraction of pdfs is they preserve the page markup intact. If you reduce the screen size by 50%, yes, it's going to be small. Pan and zoom help in a pinch, but what's really needed is ePub not pdf. This applies to all readers, not just the Kobo.