I'm not in a hurry either. It was an idea that popped into my head, and I
wanted to now how well it would work. While it would be nice to use a
device of its formfactor for this purpose, this thread has pretty much
convinced me against this. I'll be looking into setting up either the SGI
O2, or a Sun Workstation for this purpose assuming my remaining SVGA CRT
still works. If not I might start looking locally for a used LCD (I'm
likely going to do that anyway as I could use one or two).
Zane
On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Ian King wrote:
I checked out the Nook from Barnes & Noble, and it
didn't impress me with
its PDF rendering. Of course, I can't check out a Kindle since they don't
have a store, but that device doesn't have an SD slot (the Nook does).
Some of the devices demo'ed at CES sound interesting, and since I'm not in
a burning-down-the-house hurry I'll just wait to see which of them
actually makes it into the world. That way I don't have to deal with the
[deleted for reasons of good taste] at the Apple Store. -- Ian
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Subject: Re: Semi-OT: Apple iPad
Why all this discussion about the iPad? For the stated purpose
(reading PDFs) would not a similar-form-factor _designed specifically
for that purpose_ serve much better? By now there are a bunch of
"e-readers" with e-ink displays - which one of those is currently best
for scanned PDFs (which is what in this context is the primary
application!)?
I know that many of the current ones have (fairly) low pixel density
(thus bad for scanned text even if adequate for OCR'd documents) and
many suffer from bad PDF support; but I'd expect that at this stage
_someone_ has made one that is of a good size with high resolution.
At least most of these now support slapping an SD card full of files
into them, right? This way you're not tied to a network (wireless or
wired).
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Joachim Thiemann ::
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