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Old 03-03-2009, 04:49 PM   #16
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We have talked about it, and I am all for it. I think we have enough people here with them to justify it.

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It'd be awesome even if it was just an "other readers" forum. I've nothing against other readers, but I'd love to hear from those who may have done more with thier Jetbooks that I haven't learned yet.
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Old 03-03-2009, 04:57 PM   #17
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We have talked about it, and I am all for it. I think we have enough people here with them to justify it.

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yes, it will be nice. I think many people looking for information about jetBook before purchsase it and jetBook holders can help them to make the right decision and asnswer on the questions about unit before and after purchase.
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Old 03-03-2009, 04:59 PM   #18
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yes, it will be nice. I think many people looking for information about jetBook before purchsase it and jetBook holders can help them to make the right decision and asnswer on the questions about unit before and after purchase.

And I for one, only found the Jetbook by accident. It'd be nice to see it actually touted up here as some of the others are.
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Old 03-04-2009, 05:12 PM   #19
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The more I use it, the more I'm liking it. I can see where some lack of features could be an issue, but to be honest, it does everything I wanted and maybe a bit more.

Thin. Thinner than I realized. Color doesn't tickle me, it looked redder online.

Easy to use. PDF, just flip the pages like in the text files.
Can you zoom into the pdfs? I love how the 505 can view PDF's. They look great, it looks like a good laser printout. But all I can do is rotate them between portrait and landscape. Of course, I can flip pages. But if the text is too small I can't zoom. I feel PDF's are one of the 505's great strengths AND great weaknesses.
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Old 03-05-2009, 02:00 PM   #20
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Can you zoom into the pdfs? I love how the 505 can view PDF's. They look great, it looks like a good laser printout. But all I can do is rotate them between portrait and landscape. Of course, I can flip pages. But if the text is too small I can't zoom. I feel PDF's are one of the 505's great strengths AND great weaknesses.
I'm going to put together and do a review at some point, but I will say that so far, my experience with the Jetbook and PDFs is very good. I can zoom up to 6400% with PDFs with very little distortion. I've got in a comic book, and bus schedules, and they both act about the same although the font and text on the bus schedules is stupidly tiny even on a PC. But, I can rotate them, flip them and in other ways view them really easily.

On the other hand, and I will admit it may be my lack of use with the machine in PDFs, when I've put a new PDF into the machine, it doesn't seem to open easily, needs some time to load, and on a couple of occasions, didn't load at all. BUT, I will be honest and say it may have been the file at issue and NOT the Jetbook. I need to try more with it and see.


Also, I haven't done the upgrade yet so that I can view FB2 files. So I can't say much about those either. I also like the lack of "blip" between pages that I noticed with e-ink. I was thrilled to not have that.
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Old 03-06-2009, 01:15 AM   #21
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I'm interested to hear what you find out about PDF's. I doubt I'd get the jetbook you got, but if they came out with an 8" or 10" reader, it might have a similar UI and internals, so it'd be good to hear how yours does.

I don't know what to say about the infamous e-ink page flip. Doesn't bother me at all. I've seen technology do far worse. I like how Jetbook's website says it will irritate your eyes. That made me chuckle a bit. I can see it irritating the mind, but not the eyes

Then again, maybe it's letting loose a snap of gamma radiation each time it does that! :-o
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Old 03-06-2009, 11:14 AM   #22
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I'm interested to hear what you find out about PDF's. I doubt I'd get the jetbook you got, but if they came out with an 8" or 10" reader, it might have a similar UI and internals, so it'd be good to hear how yours does.

I don't know what to say about the infamous e-ink page flip. Doesn't bother me at all. I've seen technology do far worse. I like how Jetbook's website says it will irritate your eyes. That made me chuckle a bit. I can see it irritating the mind, but not the eyes

Then again, maybe it's letting loose a snap of gamma radiation each time it does that! :-o

Its actually a simple reason, I'm prone to seizures and that "blip" could cause one. I sat reading an e-ink reader and got nauseous. Not a good sign.

PDFs, I don't feel I need that big a screen myself. I have my bus schedules and a comic book on mine and both read really easily and well.
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Old 03-06-2009, 11:41 AM   #23
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Hi Jaie - when I was trying to view a couple PDF files formatted for standard letter size paper, JetBook did let me zoom 50%, 75%, 100%, 150%, 200% etc. all the way upto 6400% ... however, the main problem I had was that anytime I crossed 75 or 100%, the full line was not visible in the screen at a time (even in landscape mode) and I had to constantly scroll back and forth to read complete lines.

In the PDF files you have tried, have you seen this issue ?

I guess this is what is called "reflowing" which the Sony PRS-505 seems to be doing a very good job of (never putting the horizontal scroll bar) ... but the JetBook would put the horizontal scroll bar whenever I exceeded 75% (or in some cases 100%) zoon. And to get a readable font size, I was having to go to 150-200% for most documents.

Just curious if you have seen this issue.
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Old 03-06-2009, 12:15 PM   #24
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Hi Jaie - when I was trying to view a couple PDF files formatted for standard letter size paper, JetBook did let me zoom 50%, 75%, 100%, 150%, 200% etc. all the way upto 6400% ... however, the main problem I had was that anytime I crossed 75 or 100%, the full line was not visible in the screen at a time (even in landscape mode) and I had to constantly scroll back and forth to read complete lines.

Yes. This happens, but, that happens on my Aspire One as well, so I guess I don't see the issue. When you zoom, you are making the screen larger than what you have, so scrolling is a must. I can see why someone would want zoom with no scrolling, but I have a feeling that only something like the Foxit reader may figure out how to avoid it.
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