Best ereader for PDF books - Page 2

dixieknits · 10-14-2010, 03:05 PM

I would definitely say Jetbook is the best. It handles PDF's as if they were epub or rtfs. You can turn landscape or not and resize the font and no needing to pan. It resizes the page for you.
On a sad note, I would say Kindle is the worst as one either has miniscule text reminiscient of the little matchbook bibles or one must pan across the page for each section when using a legible sized font. I'm sure Kindle will at some point remedy this, but right now Jetbook is miles ahead of the others on pdfs with a good many options to choose from to present a perfect pdf.

lalebarde · 10-15-2010, 03:55 AM

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Originally Posted by SeaBookGuy

The 650's retail price is $229 not $170 - I think you've confused it with the smaller 350 (@$179)?

No, it is the 6".

lalebarde · 10-15-2010, 06:08 AM

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Originally Posted by dixieknits

I would definitely say Jetbook is the best. It handles PDF's as if they were epub or rtfs. You can turn landscape or not and resize the font and no needing to pan. It resizes the page for you.
right now Jetbook is miles ahead of the others on pdfs with a good many options to choose from to present a perfect pdf.

Thanks for this information. But here, it says :

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One the minus side as good as the screen looks and as fast as it works it doesn’t have the same contrast as an eInk screen.

Plus it seems you cannot add notes to documents.

murraypaul · 10-15-2010, 09:46 AM

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Originally Posted by lalebarde

Can someone having a PocketBook 302 testimony how good or bad is the pdf reflow ?

However good the device algorithm is, pdf reflow is always a chancy business, and depends on how the original file was encoded. If you have a two-column page where the text is actually stored in the pdf as alternate lines from each column, it is unlikely any reader will manage to pull useful text out of it.
PDF is just a poor choice for reading at anything other than the original layout.
There is no concept of text flow in a PDF file, no sentances or paragraphs, it is simply a list of instructions of the form: go to (x,y) and print (this text). In most cases the instructions will be in a logical order, but there is nothing that requires this.

SeaBookGuy · 10-16-2010, 07:41 PM

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Originally Posted by lalebarde

No, it is the 6".

That is the old 600 model not the new 650.

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dixieknits Addict Posts: 283 Karma: 1011418 Join Date: Jun 2010 Device: Kindle 3, Nook Color	I would definitely say Jetbook is the best. It handles PDF's as if they were epub or rtfs. You can turn landscape or not and resize the font and no needing to pan. It resizes the page for you. On a sad note, I would say Kindle is the worst as one either has miniscule text reminiscient of the little matchbook bibles or one must pan across the page for each section when using a legible sized font. I'm sure Kindle will at some point remedy this, but right now Jetbook is miles ahead of the others on pdfs with a good many options to choose from to present a perfect pdf.

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