Re: [The Java Posse] Re: eBook reader for technical reading ?

2010-09-20 Thread Jan Goyvaerts™
Looking to the comments it's work-in-progress. But still... $10 is okay. :-) On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 09:00, babui wrote: > > > On 19 sep, 19:30, Jan Goyvaerts™ wrote: > > Does the iPad has a pdf reader supporting annotation and highlighting ? I > > guess searching for pdf containing keywords is

[The Java Posse] Re: eBook reader for technical reading ?

2010-09-20 Thread babui
On 19 sep, 19:30, Jan Goyvaerts™ wrote: > Does the iPad has a pdf reader supporting annotation and highlighting ? I > guess searching for pdf containing keywords is défacto included. iAnnotate http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/iannotate-pdf/id363998953 can do this but it costs $9.99 JM -- You r

[The Java Posse] Re: eBook reader for technical reading ?

2010-09-19 Thread Tor Norbye
Funny -- I've been reading Programming in Scala as a PDF too :-) Here's an iPad screen capture from the page I happened to be on: http://lh5.ggpht.com/_PkzBdpmSG-Y/TJaGEnlUMXI/BgQ/MBURFPcLaSM/IMG_0050.jpg (Picasa insisted on converting the pure .png file to a .jpg so there may be some co

[The Java Posse] Re: eBook reader for technical reading ?

2010-09-19 Thread Mark Freeman
>From what I have seen, the Kindle DX may be your best choice. I have the Kindle 2, but the screen size is just small enough to make reading pdfs a problem. On Sep 18, 4:35 pm, Jan Goyvaerts™ wrote: > Hi, > > By any chance, does somebody here knows about a suitable ebook reader for > technical r

[The Java Posse] Re: eBook reader for technical reading ?

2010-09-19 Thread Stefan Kendall
I'd also be interested in this. No one I know using an ebook reader is using it with technical books. The iPad can read pdfs, so maybe that's the best solution? On Sep 18, 5:35 pm, Jan Goyvaerts™ wrote: > Hi, > > By any chance, does somebody here knows about a suitable ebook reader for > technica

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: eBook reader for technical reading ?

2010-09-19 Thread Jan Goyvaerts™
Well... that not too bad actually. And you can search your collection of pdf's for keywords ? 2010/9/19 Cédric Beust ♔ > Here is what a technical book looks like on the new Kindle: > > http://imgur.com/R96co > > (this is a page from Programming in Scala) > > The display looks actually nicer than

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: eBook reader for technical reading ?

2010-09-19 Thread Jan Goyvaerts™
Does the iPad has a pdf reader supporting annotation and highlighting ? I guess searching for pdf containing keywords is défacto included. On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 18:23, Tor Norbye wrote: > I've been happily using the iPad as an ebook reader. I've mostly been > using the Kindle app, since Amazon

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: eBook reader for technical reading ?

2010-09-19 Thread Cédric Beust ♔
Here is what a technical book looks like on the new Kindle: http://imgur.com/R96co (this is a page from Programming in Scala) The display looks actually nicer than it does in the picture (which I took with my phone, and the colors look a bit washed out because of the light that I was using). My

[The Java Posse] Re: eBook reader for technical reading ?

2010-09-19 Thread Tor Norbye
I've been happily using the iPad as an ebook reader. I've mostly been using the Kindle app, since Amazon has (by far) the best selection of technical books. The app also has most of the features you mention (highlight passages (and jump to your highlights), add notes, indexing and hyperlinks, and i