I run a small blog on a very specific subject (compressive sensing to be exact) which is very much followed by a community of researchers and engineers from all over the world. One of the reason the blog has some success (i.e. in the quality of the readership) has to do with the fact that I am putting some time in analyzing near real time new preprints on the subject of interest to that community. I am doing this as a hobby. However for this to happen, I am reading these from a laptop or a netbook but neither of these solutions are optimal. I am looking for an E-book reader that can render math expression written in the different pdf preprints I get to download everyday. From an informal gathering of information on the net, it looks like Kindle 1 and 2 do not act as PDF readers. Does any of you have any experience with any other E-books when it comes to reading PDF preprints. I am also looking for the ability to read PDFs without having to do conversion of any kind as I read many papers every day.<p>I also know that I am not the only one in the scientific community that is looking for that product, so I venture that your guidance will help many.<p>Thanks in advance,<p>Igor.
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The new Kindle DX has a large e-ink display and it <i>can</i> open PDFs natively, where as Kindle 1 and 2 needed conversion. Haven't used one myself, so I can't comment on the quality/readability, but it sounds like exactly what you're looking for.
(re-run of a comment I made previously; device reads PDFs)<p>iRex Digital Reader 1000S, 699 EUR; <a href="https://www.irexshop.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.irexshop.com/</a><p><pre><code> 10.2 Inch (diagonal) electronic paper display
1024 x 1280 pixel resolution at 160 pixels per inch
16-level grey scale
Mini-USB connector
Wacom® penabled® touch sensor input with Stylus
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