I'll second this. I've used several ebook, e-ink and non-e-ink devices, the 6 inch screen will mangle a pdf that doesn't support PDF reflow, which is most of them. For PDF's the larger the screen the better, simply because you are matching the page size the PDF was made for natively. So I tend to read sci-fi & novels on the Nook, and PDF's on the iPad. I was hoping Amazon would refresh the Kindle DX and make it cheaper but no such luck. :-(
Having said that, a lot of oreilly books are coming out in epub, PDF & Mobi. So at least one publisher gets that ereader devices are important to support. epub is best in general and specificly for the Nook or Sony reader's (which I've owned). Mobi can be loaded onto a Kindle (which I've not owned, but have used the iPad app). Either way, get calibre to manage your ebook collection. It's open source, python and has a really active developer. It has a feature to grab news sites and munge them into epubs. It also does a lot of ebook format 1 to ebook format 2 conversion things, I use that feature a lot. I put in a little more than $0.02 here, but I'm a fan of the e-ink ereaders in general. --Donald On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Rafael Troncoso <[email protected]> wrote: > If you want to read technical books this is not for you. I own one of these > and they are great for reading novels, but when you put a pdf with some kind > of format the text is all screwed. > I also have been looking for a reader for technical papers and your best > option is the kindle dx, but I also read some bad reviews when converting > such papers. > On Oct 15, 2011 9:31 AM, "Chad Bailey" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> For those interested, here's a direct link: >> >> http://www.barnesandnoble.com/u/nook1-overview/379002696/ >> >> On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Chad Bailey <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Thanks for taking the time to point this out, Tim. Marshall, Tim's >> > description says, "Primary document formats for Nook are ePub and >> > PDF." This tells me the answer to your question is yes, it natively >> > supports PDF. I'm not sure about that, just going off of this scrap of >> > info. If you want to know for sure, there's always Google. >> > >> > On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Marshall Davis <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> I am looking for a reader for PDF version books. A friend said he loved >> his Kindle (original), but it was horrible for technical books (like >> O'reilly or Dummies) due to having to convert PDF to another format, which >> did strange things to code snippet boxes. Does this handle PDF natively? I >> am wondering if I should just get a low cost android tablet, as battery life >> isn't that big of a deal. Suggestions? Thanks! >> >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> >> >> On Oct 13, 2011, at 8:34 AM, Tim Holloway <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >>> One more thing. This was advertised on the web, with free shipping and >> >>> handling. I don't know if it applies in-store or not. In fact, I'm not >> >>> sure if they still carry it in stores. >> >>> >> >>> Tim >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >>> Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 >> >>> RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml >> >>> Unsubscribe [email protected] >> >>> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 >> >> RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml >> >> Unsubscribe [email protected] >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 >> RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml >> Unsubscribe [email protected] >> >> > -- Donald Cowart http://www.rdex.net/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
