Please give a newbe some help

recordsmith · 10-29-2007, 06:21 PM

Hi guys,

I am new to this whole e-reader thing. Here is my situation. I am a doctoral student and I am in the process of researching my thesis. Well I have a huge amount of PDFs from all places, dissertation abstracts, Jsotr etc.. Anyway I have a lot of reading to do and sitting at my computer is not what I call a good time. Do you have any suggestions for a portable reader? I have read many threads that say it is not a good format and I guess I agree, but I really have no choice because that is the prevailing format for scholarly research.

thanks for all your help.

I don't know how I missed the post only 10 down from me, I will read that...!

DaleDe · 10-29-2007, 06:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by recordsmith

Hi guys,

I am new to this whole e-reader thing. Here is my situation. I am a doctoral student and I am in the process of researching my thesis. Well I have a huge amount of PDFs from all places, dissertation abstracts, Jsotr etc.. Anyway I have a lot of reading to do and sitting at my computer is not what I call a good time. Do you have any suggestions for a portable reader? I have read many threads that say it is not a good format and I guess I agree, but I really have no choice because that is the prevailing format for scholarly research.

thanks for all your help.

I don't know how I missed the post only 10 down from me, I will read that...!

iLiad or a laptop/tablet pc are your best/only good choices.

Dale

wallcraft · 10-29-2007, 11:31 PM

The iLiad is your best bet, see for example Technical Document Examples and Tool to split up double pages. You will have to decide if a 10" screen is big enough. In landscape mode with no margins it is about as wide as the text part of a letter page PDF and about 1/2 as high.

HarryT · 10-30-2007, 04:11 AM

Agree with the previous posters - the iLiad or a laptop/tablet PC are the only sensible choices. Don't go near devices with 6" screens if PDF is your main priority.

tribble · 10-30-2007, 06:08 AM

And the multi column viewer works great on the iLiad for scientific papers with multiple columns.

10-29-2007, 06:21 PM	#1
recordsmith Member Posts: 17 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2007 Device: Blackberry Curve	Please give a newbe some help Hi guys, I am new to this whole e-reader thing. Here is my situation. I am a doctoral student and I am in the process of researching my thesis. Well I have a huge amount of PDFs from all places, dissertation abstracts, Jsotr etc.. Anyway I have a lot of reading to do and sitting at my computer is not what I call a good time. Do you have any suggestions for a portable reader? I have read many threads that say it is not a good format and I guess I agree, but I really have no choice because that is the prevailing format for scholarly research. thanks for all your help. I don't know how I missed the post only 10 down from me, I will read that...! Last edited by recordsmith; 10-29-2007 at 06:23 PM.

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wallcraft reader Posts: 6,977 Karma: 5183568 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mississippi, USA Device: Kindle 3, Kobo Glo HD	The iLiad is your best bet, see for example Technical Document Examples and Tool to split up double pages. You will have to decide if a 10" screen is big enough. In landscape mode with no margins it is about as wide as the text part of a letter page PDF and about 1/2 as high.

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HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,544 Karma: 93383099 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	Agree with the previous posters - the iLiad or a laptop/tablet PC are the only sensible choices. Don't go near devices with 6" screens if PDF is your main priority.

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