07-25-2013, 03:01 AM | #61 |
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Do you see pixels when you read on your Kindle Keyboard or Kindle Touch? The iPad Mini has pretty much the same pixel density as those devices do.
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I don't see them on the Kindle Keyboard as I only read ebooks on that. I sold my Kindle Touch. The problem for me with the mini is I want to read my fan fiction PDFs which I cannot get into any other format easily (or at all in some cases) and they need a decent tablet screen resolution. They aren't a factor with my Kindle Keyboard or Paperwhite as I can't (and won't) read PDFs on my Kindle.
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No small tablet is good for PDFs. You really do need a larger-screen device for that.
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With a high enough resolution, it can be. If I'm able to read the same size characters on 600dpi laser-printed paper but can't read it on the tablet, that just means resolution on the tablet isn't high enough (and I usually print PDFs with lots of pages in booklet mode so effective physical size of that is probably smaller than what would be rendered on the iPad Mini).
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Doesn't work with my eyesight, I'm afraid. An A4/Letter page shrunk to fit on a 7" tablet is just too damned small for my vision, no matter how high the resolution is .
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I've been able to work out (which hasn't been easy tbh) the reflow option on Mantano an Android app that works with PDFs. In iOS I can use Goodreader but the Mantano app works better.
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Sales of the Mini would seem to suggest that it's far from dead. If it is dead, it's a pretty healthy corpse .
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That's why their probably won't be a retina version next year. If anything Apple are geniuses at slowly dragging out the rate of innovations or improvements. One year it's one thing and then next year it's another even when they could add all the improvements at one time.
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An ipad mini with retina screen will be worth waiting for. I currently travel with my iPhone and Nook, my long term plan is not to replace the iPhone but to replace the Nook with the retina mini ipad and get a cheap phone. The iPhone is a crap phone IMO so I'd rather have a pay as you go phone and a 3G mini ipad, but I want the retina screen one, nothing else is good enough.
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