8.1 inch and PDF books

cederstrom · 10-10-2009, 07:35 PM

Hi,

I been thinking about buying an E-book device, but im not sure if I should get one that is 8.1 inch, or one of the larger ones.

Could someone try to download the free chapter from a book here:

http://aspnetmvcbook.s3.amazonaws.co...rdinner_v1.pdf

And see if its readable on a 8.1 inch device? and if you really want to make me happy post a few pictures of it

Thanks!

devn · 10-15-2009, 09:20 PM

I'm in the same camp. I'm really torn between the DX and the iliad. The iliad's annotation is a major motivation, but the DX might be better for PDF. Can anyone comment?

joblack · 10-16-2009, 12:04 AM

I'm generally no fan of the Kindle (DX) - for good reading convenience of bigger papers use an IRex 1000S ...

X. Trapnel · 10-30-2009, 10:54 AM

Most academic humanities/social-sciences books are fine; they tend to be somewhere around 6x9". The one you linked to, though, is a bit questionable. I wouldn't recommend 8" if a lot of your books have pages that large relative to font and pictures; I imagine the pix would lose a lot of usability.

You can see for yourself by seeing what a 1024x768 px version would look like, and making it the right physical size...

badbob001 · 11-04-2009, 11:27 AM

I've been using this freeware app (http://www.brianapps.net/sizer/) to resize my windows to specific sizes so I can get an idea how it will look at a certain resolution.

For the dr800/iliad, I've created profiles for portrait 768x1024 and landscape 1024x768. Note that you may want to add to the numbers to compensate for PC-specifc things like toolbars, window bar, etc. And you have to consider reader-specific features such as being able to fit-to-text which ignores the useless borders in PDFs, status bar at top, toolbar at bottom, etc.

10-10-2009, 07:35 PM	#1
cederstrom Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2009 Device: none	8.1 inch and PDF books Hi, I been thinking about buying an E-book device, but im not sure if I should get one that is 8.1 inch, or one of the larger ones. Could someone try to download the free chapter from a book here: http://aspnetmvcbook.s3.amazonaws.co...rdinner_v1.pdf And see if its readable on a 8.1 inch device? and if you really want to make me happy post a few pictures of it Thanks!

10-30-2009, 10:54 AM	#4
X. Trapnel Enthusiast Posts: 32 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2009 Location: Heidelberg, Germany Device: iLiad (broken screen! cry), x61t tablet	Most books are fine, though that one is questionable Most academic humanities/social-sciences books are fine; they tend to be somewhere around 6x9". The one you linked to, though, is a bit questionable. I wouldn't recommend 8" if a lot of your books have pages that large relative to font and pictures; I imagine the pix would lose a lot of usability. You can see for yourself by seeing what a 1024x768 px version would look like, and making it the right physical size...

11-04-2009, 11:27 AM	#5
badbob001 Fanatic Posts: 556 Karma: 1102020 Join Date: Sep 2009 Device: Kindle Keyboard (rip), Kindle Voyage, Fire Tablet 10 '17, iPad '19	I've been using this freeware app (http://www.brianapps.net/sizer/) to resize my windows to specific sizes so I can get an idea how it will look at a certain resolution. For the dr800/iliad, I've created profiles for portrait 768x1024 and landscape 1024x768. Note that you may want to add to the numbers to compensate for PC-specifc things like toolbars, window bar, etc. And you have to consider reader-specific features such as being able to fit-to-text which ignores the useless borders in PDFs, status bar at top, toolbar at bottom, etc. Last edited by badbob001; 11-04-2009 at 11:29 AM.

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10-15-2009, 09:20 PM	#2
devn Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: None Yet	I'm in the same camp. I'm really torn between the DX and the iliad. The iliad's annotation is a major motivation, but the DX might be better for PDF. Can anyone comment?

10-16-2009, 12:04 AM	#3
joblack Wizard Posts: 1,751 Karma: 4382688 Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Somewhere on earth Device: Onyx Boox Tab X C	I'm generally no fan of the Kindle (DX) - for good reading convenience of bigger papers use an IRex 1000S ...

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