Guild of San Marcos Forum

By now I have a number of RPGs as (legal) .pdfs and the number doesn't seem to become less in the coming years, while I do love physical books, .pdfs are both cheap and easy to get (no double entendres here!).

However, I'm lousy at siting in front of my computer reading, I prefer to do it on the toilet or in my bed. Now I could buy a tablet, but I don't like reading on a back-lit screen, and I would just end up playing games on it. So I'm considering buying an E-book reader. But, does anyone have any experiance with reading .pdfs on one of those? I would imagine you have to scroll around on the page and that would be an immense hassle?

The only experience I had is with the original Sony e-Book reader. I could put all my pdfs on it but because there was artwork, it took forever (and I really do mean forever, upwards of 3-4 hours) for pages with artwork to load.

But this was upwards of 5 years ago, so I'd assume they'd made improvements since then.

Sorry, mine is a backlit color tablet. But the solution is to simply not load any games on it. I highly recommend skipping any apps for blokus, carcassonne, senet, set, mancala, ww1 biplane combat, and whatnot. One benefit of that color screen is the comic book downloads that you can magnify.

Amazon does make a larger screened version. I know someone who uses one for wargame books. There is still some scrolling but not too bad.

I have a nook color, not the nook tablet, and it loads pdfs ok, there's a little slow-down but not too bad when switching pages. Though the color is really good for reading comics.

hmmm, thanks for all the feedback, I'll have to think some more.

and Sal, that is EXACTLY why I leave my phone downstairs when I go to bed...