For anyone familiar with the Kobo Touch, you know that one of the reader's best features is its phenomenal pinch/zoom and panning capabilities. Though choppy in the traditional e-ink fashion, the Kobo is a panning beast--which is stellar for people like me (students) who consume a lot of readings via scanned PDFs assigned by professors. (Video example here @ 0:28 www.youtube.com/watch?v=35Wk39I1h20)
I wanted to know if anyone could speak to how the Kindle performs with this kinda thing.
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How's The Kindle Touch's PDF Pinch/Zoom/Panning
Yes you can pinch zoom pdf like you do on any other touch screen devices.
However, the kindle touch does not have a landscape mode. When you zoom in a pdf file, usually the width of a line will exceed the the width of your screen, which means you'll have to scroll horizontally (with the slow e-ink refresh rate) for every single line you read. Needless to say this is very unpleasant.
On the other hand if you're reading an academic paper, which is usually in two columns, you can zoom in to fit one column to your screen. That part is not so bad, but to turn a page you'll have to zoom out to your original size and zoom in again. This is an annoyance for me because normally I cannot zoom in to the right size in one shot, I'll have to adjust the size several times until I get the right reading size. I don't want to do this every time I turn to a new page.
The only good thing about kindle touch is you can highlight and add notes with greater ease compared to the previous generations. But in terms of navigating through your document, kindle keyboard does a better job. In short, kindle is not the optimal tool for academic reading (unless you get a kindle DXG). I'm not a DXG user so I can't say much about that.
However, the kindle touch does not have a landscape mode. When you zoom in a pdf file, usually the width of a line will exceed the the width of your screen, which means you'll have to scroll horizontally (with the slow e-ink refresh rate) for every single line you read. Needless to say this is very unpleasant.
On the other hand if you're reading an academic paper, which is usually in two columns, you can zoom in to fit one column to your screen. That part is not so bad, but to turn a page you'll have to zoom out to your original size and zoom in again. This is an annoyance for me because normally I cannot zoom in to the right size in one shot, I'll have to adjust the size several times until I get the right reading size. I don't want to do this every time I turn to a new page.
The only good thing about kindle touch is you can highlight and add notes with greater ease compared to the previous generations. But in terms of navigating through your document, kindle keyboard does a better job. In short, kindle is not the optimal tool for academic reading (unless you get a kindle DXG). I'm not a DXG user so I can't say much about that.
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I can not read PDFs on this, if that answers your question more simply.
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