Ipad

Posted by quant
Feb 3, 2011 at 10:12 AM

Dr Andus wrote:
>I have now trialled Zoostorm SL8 (http://amzn.to/fyyOzE) with Windows 7 as a
>possible e-reader for reading and annotating PDF articles and books. The hardware
>itself is very impressive and in theory it should be able to do everything that a
>desktop PC can. Unfortunately, I could not replicate my desktop workflow because it
>turned out that many of my key software were not specifically configured to work in the
>tablet mode and Windows 7 doesn’t offer workarounds.
> >E.g. I couldn’t view a PDF in
>full screen view in PDF XChange Viewer and then with a flick of the finger move to the
>next page (as you would do on an iPod Touch for instance). I had to call up the onscreen
>keyboard and use an arrow or the page down key to move, which of course covered up half of
>the screen and disrupted the reading experience. Similarly, copying, highlighting
>and adding notes turned out to be an ordeal. A whole lot of extra steps had to be taken to
>do what I can do in an instant on my desktop PC.

Hmmm, strange. I have absolutelly no issue using ibm x61 tablet in a tablet mode with my pen in XP (12’’ screen), and similarly small viliv s5 (5’’ screen).
Pdf xchange is obviously not in full-screen mode, but “almost full screen mode”, with few toolbars visible.
Even if I didn’t use pen, there are dozens of buttons that I could configure to say “page down”, etc ...

Obviously, it’s not as cool as using 2 fingers on the screen and zooming in out all the time, looooooool