[Gllug] ebook readers for technical books

[Sean Burlington]

Simon Morris wrote:
> 
> I have a Sony PRS-505 reader.. I use it mainly for technical books (see
> my question below) and it's usable but not flawless.
> 
> PDF books are rendered fairly well, but if your document is diagram or
> screenshot heavy then you find that the flow of the book becomes a
> little confusing when it has to do a page break for the diagram.
> 
> These are annoyances rather than show stoppers though. The Sony reader
> handles PDFs natively (as opposed to the older Kindle readers) as well
> as txt files.

Thanks - that's exactly the kind of info I was looking for

Can it cope with password protected PDF's - or ones with watermark 
backgrounds?

I've got a few like this from Apress and Safari.

And how does it cope with displaying an A4 PDF on a 6 inch screen?

> 
> Calibre [0] handles synchronisation nicely.
> 

I've played with this before - but I seem to be hit by a debian bug 
right now

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=522718

> Here's a related question.. I would *love* to buy ebooks from the
> Internet to read on my Sony but as far as I can see you need either
> Windows or Mac software to do so, certainly from Waterstones.
> 

Searching for PHP ebooks on waterstones returns precisely one result!

I'd happily buy ebooks if I could...

Especially now Safari books has "upgraded" to a foul flash interface - 
and I've canceled my account.

> 
> [0] http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/
> 


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Sean Burlington

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