Thanks Justin, I am thinking of getting the Elipsa 2E for library borrowing in UK, viewing certain formats of text and sideloaded PDFs of academic papers. A Q. - can you embolden PDF text for reading? Is there a contrast control, for example.
@texnology84
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Nope, the PDF controls are limited to a more straightforward toolset: - Features as of today: - Zoom is set as fit to width on initial load - Zoom level and position appear to be set to stay locked into place as you flip pages, so if you basically want to crop in and center, it should hold as you tap to next page (more recent addition) - You can pan around a zoomed PDF - Markup via stylus is limited to a semi medium thickness thickness and single color of black - Highlighter is a single size and single shade - Table of contents from PDF is available - nesting is indented nicely (3 indention levels at least) - Bookmarking (bookmark tool is on top right of screen similar to ebook view which is activated via tapping) - Search (opens to default of Search My Books, not Search Current Read - meaning it is a little slower to get to) - Search results allow you to jump to the previous/next results one by one - but the match word is not highlighted (which the notebooks feature does have) - You can click a search result before it is done searching but it will halt additional results from showing (similar to notebooks feature) - Similar to ebook view UX, there is a menu item to go to a Dictionary search to manual lookup a word - Similar to ebook view UX, you may view your annotations and markup and bookmarks from a modal list - Features Lacking: - No contrast control - so faded out text from a scan cannot be enhanced nor text emboldened - No adding in margin around a doc to basically zoom out from fit to width - No highlighting of text - No dictionary lookup from selected text - No page overview (e.g. thumbnail grid) - No continuous page type view (not that many ereader would be good at it but a common PDF experience on LCD screens I figured is worth mentioning) - No controls that allow you to step through sections a page via tapping (like top left, top right, bottom left, bottom right, and onto next page) - just simply a page by page flow - No comments/notes applied to an area or section of text like Adobe PDF Reader on a computer or Those are the main things I can think of in case useful (and also to help myself remember these details!) :)
@thaliarcus
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@@texnology84 Thanks. Perhaps in a future update. I think the open source KOREADER app has this and much more.
@texnology84
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Oh thanks for the heads up on that. I’ve heard of it but never given it a try or dug into it. I’ll give it a look!
@learningcheme
11 ай бұрын
@@texnology84Hi did you try using the KOReader app in this device and how was your experience?
@t0dd000
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10.3 is almost half the size of letter sized. Just not big enough for many use cases, especially longer form writing. 13.3 is the other standard and is closer to A4 sized. 10.3 is great for reading.
@texnology84
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Ah, good thing to note, thanks for sharing! I have been slowly inching my way up in device sizes, and comparison made it feel like it was closer to letter sized, but I forget the measurements are diagonal and was just going by feel/comparison. I really wish stores around me carried some of these ereader options so I could check them out, 13.3” never seemed like something I’d want but 10.3” has surprised me with how pleasant it can be for more space.
@xyzoub
8 ай бұрын
But then 13.3 is 207 dpi resolution compared to 227 dpi for Kobo Elipsa, even though the 13.3 Boox Tab X is really alluring, but waiting for a new 13.3 model coming from Boox in the next few months, maybe color or mono 227 dpi or better yet (can one dream?) 300 dpi.
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