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Re:Sony Digital Paper e-ink PDF tablet for notes and forms by bildung on Friday March 28, 2014 @09:23AM (#7487017)
> The hardware is lustworthy, though the resolution could be higher, it's just a shame there's no SDK. The buttons on the front look very old school Androidish.

I have a 10" e-ink device with 1200x825px which is perfectly fine for A4/letter-designed PDFs, so I'd say the resolution should be fine. I also have a 10" notebook, and the readability is considerably worse at about the same resolution, so I guess e-ink resolutions are not really comparable with lcd resolutions (the pixel layout is quite different: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3090/2286311679_f98bdba47f_m....).

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Re:Sony Digital Paper e-ink PDF tablet for notes and forms by j_s on Friday March 28, 2014 @01:34PM (#7488726)
Which device do you have? The Kindle DX is 9.7"

Visionect sells developer-friendly (SDK included) 6" and 9.7" devices starting around $500: http://www.visionect.com/

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Re:Sony Digital Paper e-ink PDF tablet for notes and forms by adiM on Friday March 28, 2014 @02:07PM (#7488936)
Don't know about the GP, but I have an iRex DR1000 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Reader_1000) which was perfectly sized for reading A4/letter papers. But it is bulky and has no wireless connectivity.
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Re:Sony Digital Paper e-ink PDF tablet for notes and forms by bildung on Friday March 28, 2014 @02:47PM (#7489184)
I have an Onyx BOOX M92: https://onyx-boox.com/productsinfo/onyx-boox-m92-black-pearl... It did cost 300€/420$ a year and a half ago. The alternative at that time was the Pocketbook Pro 912 (http://www.pocketbook-int.com/de/products/pocketbook-912) at around the same pricepoint, but that seemed less open (technically both run Linux, but Pocketbook didn't publish their modified sources).
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