Re: NEED ADVISE for READING LARGE DOCS ON COMPUTERS - maybe E-paper, E-ink, Kindle, Ebook readers, o

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"STAN STARINSKI" <NoSpam@NoSpam.org> wrote in message
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>I deal with megatons of PDF docs e.g. datahseets, manuals, etc.
> It's mostly text. As I've been doing computers for decades & health is my
> priority, not something in "background" I have SUPER healthy environment such as
> all-black background, silver-colored fonts, no distractions/graphics, brightness
> at zero, contrast at comfortably low setting which is in hardware + nVidia
> videodriver, my graphics is 512MB nVidia GeForceMobile.
> It's too long to explain but everything is as good as it gets.
>
> AND YET IT'S NOT ENOUGH.
> The bright ideas don't arrive into your head in the office, in bright light while
> a bunch of people swarm around, you can hear peeing in the toilet, PHONES, etc.
> I use earplugs 34NRR rating, blue things that far exceed so-called noise reduction
> headphones (which are a ripoff).
>
> Do you kno whwere bright ideas get born?
> In a park, woods, the bench, MY CAR - the best, I sit alone in total silence, no
> cellphones, no dorks of my neighborhood - I just drive out to s State/National
> Park and that's where I work on complex problems.
> I need all these PDF's with me.
> Printing is not an option you obviously understand. One Datasheet for Microchip
> PIC18F4420 is 421 pages, and I need like a dozen of things of this sort with me.
>
> So anyone can suggest a solution?
> My plan is the following, bu tmaybe someone cna sugegst better?
>
> a) Get Amazon Kindle - its Epaper does not emit light, but instead REFLECTS light
> so it's the closest you can get to paper.
> Despit emy laptop being ultrahealthy and all dark, it's still an LCD, sunlight
> blinds it, ewtc, etc bu tmost important you STILL get stuff emitted into your eyes
> even though it's nowhere close to old CRT/tube monitors of th eancient era, it's
> still not paper.
> You know the feeling flipping pages?
> Nothing can replace it, paper is still indispensable.
> Things like Kindle, Ebook redaer from Ectaco, etc come closest to it.
> The Problem is cost - $300, and Ectaco unit has this megaproblem - you can't
> resize fonts/zoom & jump to arbitrary page in a PDF, so in a 420 page doc you have
> to scroll thru 400 pages to get to 401st?
> It draws no energy when text is static, good, but still... $300 in this tight
> economy for something that can only display text and o nothing else.
>
> Get a NETBOOK, but it's nothing more than a small laptop, it's still using LCD
> and energy.
> The plus is that it can do anything else besides displaying text (Kindle) and no
> PDF problems unline Ectaco
> If Kindle can do more than simple reading, than price shoots upto to a Nertbook or
> even a laptop cost, so why bother?
>
> c) I am mor einclined to get a Netbook with OLED display, but Kindle is still in
> my head
>
> Any suggestions? <!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

 

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