http://www.bradsreader.com/2008/01/iphone-review-one-month-later/ All Things Literature & Writing Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:37:17 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.bradsreader.com/2008/01/iphone-review-one-month-later/comment-page-1/#comment-98 Brad Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:47:21 +0000 http://bradsreader.com.s47315.gridserver.com/2008/01/iphone-review-one-month-later/#comment-98 Thank you for your comment! You are right, the Safari browser does display PDFs very well. I emailed myself an ebook and I was surprised at the quality on the iPhone. For the iPhone to be a true ebook reader, it needs to be able to store PDFs directly onto the iPhone and bookmark the page where I left off (who wants to scroll through 200 pages?). Hopefully with the SDK being released in February someone will solve these issues. Thanks again! Brad Thank you for your comment!
You are right, the Safari browser does display PDFs very well. I emailed myself an ebook and I was surprised at the quality on the iPhone.
For the iPhone to be a true ebook reader, it needs to be able to store PDFs directly onto the iPhone and bookmark the page where I left off (who wants to scroll through 200 pages?).
Hopefully with the SDK being released in February someone will solve these issues.
Thanks again!
Brad

]]> http://www.bradsreader.com/2008/01/iphone-review-one-month-later/comment-page-1/#comment-99 Art Kavanagh Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:38:27 +0000 http://bradsreader.com.s47315.gridserver.com/2008/01/iphone-review-one-month-later/#comment-99 The Safari browser on the iPhone does a good job of displaying PDFs; at least as good, I'd guess, as any third party app that might become available in the future. The problem is how to access the PDF from your browser. If it's online, this isn't a problem but there's no straightforward way to copy a PDF onto your iPhone. You can't, for example, sync it using iTunes. If the PDF isn't too large, you could make use of a hack that involves encoding it as a bookmark. It's a bit of a kludge, though. The Safari browser on the iPhone does a good job of displaying PDFs; at least as good, I’d guess, as any third party app that might become available in the future. The problem is how to access the PDF from your browser. If it’s online, this isn’t a problem but there’s no straightforward way to copy a PDF onto your iPhone. You can’t, for example, sync it using iTunes. If the PDF isn’t too large, you could make use of a hack that involves encoding it as a bookmark. It’s a bit of a kludge, though.

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