Thread: Best eInk ereader for PDFs? or How do I cope with PDFs on the Kobo Touch?
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Old 01-18-2012, 10:03 PM   #7
GvilleBridge
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Thanks all. I think the prevailing opinion is that the current generation of b&w ereaders isn't very good for PDFs--a real shame for so many textbooks, technical publications, scholarly pubs, etc. would be fine in eInk.

I downloaded K2PDFopt (http://www.willus.com/k2pdfopt/) and found it works only about as well as the PDF>ePub conversion in Calibre. The interface is DOS-ish, with numerous options for fiddling around with the format. Menu at http://www.willus.com/k2pdfopt/help/...v134a_menu.png

It processes page by page, taking time, and produces a reformatted PDF that may display on an ereader. I wonder, though, for Acroreader wouldn't read either of the two outputs. As well, one wouldn't convert to ePub in Calibre--the govt's 9/11 Commission report under DRM? how absurd!--but the other converted to an ePub OK for Just Reading.

BTW K2PDFopt wants to be on the desktop (in Windows) but you can drag PDFs from wherever they are to the icon, and the output is put in the same folder.
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