Re: [tlug] New Kindle

[Darren Cook <darren@example.com>]

> I've been holding my breath for the ASUS DR-900.

I found more recent reviews but nothing official, let alone pricing or
release dates. Holding your breath sounds dangerous :-)

> I got to use a 6" Kindle (second version?) for about 3 hours worth of
> reading with my own documents and ebooks.  ...
> usually read A4-sized PDFs, however, and for this, the 6" Kindle is
> unusable.  The font size gets squashed too much, and leaves the page
> almost illegible unless you rotate the page to the landscape position
> and zoom the PDF about 25%.

Thanks, that is very helpful, as reading A4 PDFs is a key requirement.

> simple simulation, take an A4 PDF, reduce the print size to about 80%,
> then print two pages per sheet of paper....

On the other hand, that is normally how I print them out, so maybe I'd
be okay :-)

(Thanks to Craig for the link about asian character support in new kindle.)
(Re: Marc's comment about ePUB, not a show-stopper for me, but I'll bear
that in mind.)

Darren


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