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Originally Posted by JoshLessard
1) Supports ePub well. I want to be able to buy books from any store that sells ePubs (e.g., kobobooks.com), and borrow books from online libraries that lend out ePubs (e.g., downloadlibrary.ca).
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The nook comes with the latest Adobe software (an updated version of what your Sony runs), so you shouldn't have a problem here.
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2) Good contrast and low glare. I purchased a Sony PRS-600 because it satisfies criteria 1, 3 and 4, but the contrast and glare from the screen are horrible.
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I have a PRS-505 and the classic EZ Reader; the nook impressed me with the apparent improved contrast.
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3) PDF reflow. I have a lot of computer programming books in PDF format that I want to be able to read, and I don't want to have to constantly pan if I make the text bigger.
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Yes, it will reflow ... with all of the problems that come with that (doesn't work with non-OCR scanned pages, I think you'll lose images, odd page breaks). The nook does not have the best PDF support out there, but it should be about average for most of today's eReaders.
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4) Skip-to-page. Many PDFs are not broken down by chapter, and I don't want to have to hit "next page" 800 times to get to page 800.
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Yes, but you don't type in a number. Rather, you drag a slide bar to your page. It might be tough to hit 800 exactly when you have a large document, but you'll get close enough.
That makes me wonder about PDFs and Table Of Contents support ... haven't tried that yet...
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Can any Nook owners tell me if it satisfies those four requirements?
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Caveat, I'm not an owner.