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Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald
Because the vast majority of my ebooks will be scanned PDFs (I'm scanning all my paperbooks), I need a reader that can zoom in on the page so the text will fill the screen, especially when in landscape, and scroll vertically within the image. Does anyone know of any e-ink readers that can do that?
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I'm going to have to agree with Harry, about scanned PDF not being too pleasant. It is a pain to zoom and the load times are much slower since it has to render the PDF page as a graphic and not text.
But I've been there done that, and being able to read an imaged based PDF is better than not having a imaged based PDF.
There are some tools that do make the PDF reading experience better. Tools like PDFLRF, PDFReader, and PaperCrop.
My two favorite tools are PaperCrop and soPDF (though BRISS is pretty darn good too).
All of the apps I've mentioned can be found here go to the
PDF section for more info
I like PaperCrop(
link) the best because it can reflow the image so the image can fit in your readers resolution and no panning/zooming is needed. Also you can chose how much you want to crop off on your PDF so you can exclude titles and page numbers to reduce the amount of useless text making the final PDF easier to read on your book.
Kindle DX 9" screen has zoom but bigger screen will require less zooming
Irex 8", but they are filling chapter 11.
Sony 600/900 has zooming. Scalable zoom, you pan by touching the edge of the screen you want to pan too.
Kindle Fixed zooms pan by moving joystick.
After the 2.5.2 FW release I think the Kindle DX and Kindle 2 are the best choices, with the Sony's as a second choice.
If you use the tools I mentioned above to remove the need to zoom, then the experience between the 600 vs K2 will be minimal.
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Originally Posted by flyash
Not sure what size you're looking for, but of the 6" readers, I think the Sony 600 is best for pdf. It has zoom and you can pan around the page. I don't use the zoom much, as I find cropped PDFs in landscape mode work pretty well on the 600.
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Prior to the Kindle 2.5.2 release I would have agreed with you. The Sony Zoom/Reflow was the best PDF support.
But the Kindle 2.5.2 PDF zoom feature is quite nice. The things that make the Zoom better on the Kindle is the Zoom sticks so you don't lose the zoom level when you change the page. Also the way you pan on the kindle is by using a joystick which is conveniently placed, next to the page next button so one does not have to move their hand. It's also much easier to pan with a joystick than having to tap the edges of the screen screen ever time you want to pan.