[ale] eBook readers for PDF reference material

[James Sumners]

I'm sorry. I can't reply and tell you that I love my iPad for reading
books in any format. I can't tell you about how it supports ePubs
(DRMed or otherwise), PDFs, and really any sort of "book" format you
throw at it. I can't tell you that O'Reilly's DRM free eBooks are
available in ALL popular eBook formats and that they specifically
support the iPad.

I can't reply and tell you all of this because the iPad is a computer
that is geared toward a specific type of use, but it isn't open to
tinkering like a traditional computer.

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
> I'm wondering if anyone here has purchased any one of the various ebook
> readers available for the purpose of loading reference material onto it,
> and likes it.
>
> I've been trying to figure out which one to buy for a while now.  I keep
> coming back to the Kindle DX, which seems to support the least number of
> formats, but supports PDFs (which is what I use the most) and has a
> relatively large "paper" size.  Most of the PDFs that I get for this are
> letter-sized, or almost letter sized, and while I can probably
> regenerate a perfectly sized PDF for whatever screen, I don't
> necessarily want to go to all that effort (though if that is better for
> one reason or another, I will).
>
> Anyone have thoughts on this?
>
>        --- Mike



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