I recently picked up a Nook Tablet and I've been doing the switch to PDF. I already have a number of gaming PDFs on there that run fine ranging from the simple black and white beauty of Apocalypse World to the four-color glory of the Dresden Files RPG. My game group may be switching over to Rogue Trader in the next month or two and I'd really like to carry that PDF around with me rather than lug the books along.

I took a look at the DriveThruRPG entry for the PDF and found it to be an obscenely large 90-odd MB. I'd also read some reviews of the PDF here and there and most reviews said that the PDF was bloated and very slow to load. I fear this thing.

I will gladly spend $30.00 on the book if I know that it'll run well on my Nook, but I'm not looking to be stuck out in the cold with a PDF that won't load properly or not at all.

Does anyone have a copy of this on their Nook, and if so, how well does it run for you? If the PDF is as cludgy as reports indicate, is their any sign from FFG that we'll see an updated one come down the way any time soon?

I use the official PDF-s in my Kindle (Keyboard) ebook reader. Because they have multi-layer, with lot of pictures it is very slow the paging. The Kindle make chace so in good circumstances it is just 3-5 second but in worst it will be 3-4 minutes, or sometimes it crash and restart. I use for static background, I search before the games the necessary page, but not meanwhile the game (I use laptop or printed version for this).

But this is an ebook reader. I suggest for yout hat you download some free stuff from FFG (moduls, erratas etc) and test on your tablet.

@auer I did as you suggested and downloaded some of the PDFs from the support page. Any that were "web quality" ran beautifully. The "high quality" stuff like the Koronus Expanse excerpt would load the first one or two pages and then just gave up the ghost. I think that the PDF may be multi-layered and maybe have publisher quality images and backgrounds. If so, then there is no way that the core book will run on my Nook.

I know that FFG have excellent customer service. Do you guys think that, if I were to contact them, I could get a web-quality PDF from them? Of course, this would be with a purchase of the PDF.

I already own the print copy of the game and, should I hear some good reviews of it, I will happily pay for the PDF edition as well. I'd feel weird not doing that.

That said, if FFG were to get involved in a "free PDF with purchase" similar to Bits and Mortar I surely would not complain.

It would be nice to have a PDF version with white background. That would really improve loading times on tablets and phones.