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zacitana · 06-21-2010, 03:46 AM

in my opinion you will not be able to read scanned books pdfs on anything smaller than 8" (I'm talking about the display, of course) - I first started looking for an e-reader with needs very similar to yours, and what I came up with was iRex DR800 - it's expensive but all bigger screens were/still are even more expensive and cumbersome (like iRex DR1000 or QUE or Kindle DX (which is ugly and I don't like it)).

I don't know if you ever held an e-reader - 5" or 6" is really small, reading a zoomed non-reflowable pdf is a pain on those (IMO), especially if you're going to read a lot of them.

iRex DR800 is not perfect (it lacks continuous page view, but the community is working on hacking the firmware so this feature should be enabled in the future - if I understand correctly), but it has features that ensure a pretty good pdf reading experience as it is.

06-21-2010, 03:46 AM	#6
zacitana a happy reader Posts: 36 Karma: 76 Join Date: Apr 2009 Device: iRex DR800S :))	in my opinion you will not be able to read scanned books pdfs on anything smaller than 8" (I'm talking about the display, of course) - I first started looking for an e-reader with needs very similar to yours, and what I came up with was iRex DR800 - it's expensive but all bigger screens were/still are even more expensive and cumbersome (like iRex DR1000 or QUE or Kindle DX (which is ugly and I don't like it)). I don't know if you ever held an e-reader - 5" or 6" is really small, reading a zoomed non-reflowable pdf is a pain on those (IMO), especially if you're going to read a lot of them. iRex DR800 is not perfect (it lacks continuous page view, but the community is working on hacking the firmware so this feature should be enabled in the future - if I understand correctly), but it has features that ensure a pretty good pdf reading experience as it is.