Re:What Tool Do You Use For Reading Technical Ebooks?
by logicalmike on Sunday October 17, 2010 @06:18PM
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PRS-505 here. You don't find the 5" screen too small? For books with proper zoom text re-formatting, not an issue at all. But otherwise, I find myself complaining even with the larger screen.
Re:What Tool Do You Use For Reading Technical Ebooks?
by _b8r0 on Sunday October 17, 2010 @06:46PM
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The zoom on the 300's really good for epub, not so hot for PDF. I tend to find with PDFs that it's hit and miss as to the formatting, but PDFs that are effectively scanned images are pretty much off because of the size.
I find the screen size (roughly the size of a paperback) is fine for Epubs though, which is what I mainly use for tech books. I also like the fact that it fits in the pockets for my shorts. This summer I went to an Island in the mediterranean and went through about 10 books in 4 days on the thing. Carrying the 10 books would've meant less room for luggage. Being able to take 200-odd books to the beach is pretty awesome.
I also use iBooks on my iPhone and can sync my books to that too, it's nowhere near as good to read on but on a croweded train it's the best given the space available.
For particularly graphics heavy docs, or where colour is important I use my laptop and Foxit PDF or Calibre. This is my last choice.
My favourite by far is the Sony.