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Old 09-28-2017, 09:40 AM   #1
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PER702 Polaroid ereader -- Will I regret purchasing?

These things are selling cheap on eBay and the reason is that they are very basic. In fact they run on batteries. Well, I am only going to use it to read PDF files, and not every day, so maybe that's OK. I'm not going to be downloading any books.

There is only one review on YouTube which says that they're OK for reading only, but don't have any of the features of better ereaders. No surprise there.

Has anyone here had any experience with the PER702 Polaroid ereader? Thank you in advance for any input.
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Old 09-28-2017, 10:53 AM   #2
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Depend on the PDF's you're going to be using on it. It's a 7" screen, so if the PDF's are formatted at 8-1/2 x 11 or A4 your text and stuff is going to be pretty small when the PDF scales down to fit the smaller page area of the screen.
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Old 09-28-2017, 01:48 PM   #3
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I read PDFs on a 7" screen (Nexus 2013) and it's easy to pinch and zoom to read the parts you need to. You can also read in landscape mode.

I put all my knitting patterns on my tablet, and my eyesight is far from 20/20.

It's hard on your eyes for long-term reading, but younger people don't seem to have a problem as much as us oldsters.
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Old 09-28-2017, 06:42 PM   #4
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I read PDFs on a 7" screen (Nexus 2013) and it's easy to pinch and zoom to read the parts you need to. You can also read in landscape mode.
I don't know that the device the OP is talking about has a touch screen. I know the earlier 701 didn't. These Polaroid readers aren't full tablets.
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Yeah, if there's no zoom in or out, PDFs are a bear to read on any device less than 13"
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Yeah, if there's no zoom in or out, PDFs are a bear to read on any device less than 13"
Actually a smaller device with landscape support can read PDF nicely. Most of the time a 9.7" device will suffice.

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Old 09-29-2017, 12:28 PM   #7
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Thanks to all of your for your input.
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I don't find it a problem to read PDF on an iPad 9.7".
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Polaroid went out of business over a decade ago. The name is now available for use by anyone willing to pay for it. Presumably there have been some decent devices wearing that name but the two that I bought were junk. One was a Polaroid tablet and it was so poor I gave it away after about a week. The store wouldn't take it back. The poor guy I gave it to tried to give it back to me but I wouldn't take it back either.

The other was an MP3 player quite a few years ago. It worked for 2 days. It was cheaper than the postage to return it so I threw it away.

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